دامن

Baluchi

Noun

دامن • (dáman)

1. skirt

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دامان

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دامن (dâman, “skirt”).

Noun

دامن • (damen)

1. skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist

   Synonyms: اتك (etek), ذیل (zeyl)

2. outskirts, suburb, the area surrounding a city or town
3. (nautical) the lower part, bunt or clew of a sail
4. (calligraphy) the tail of a letter of the alphabet

Derived terms

• دامنبوسی (damenbusi, “the act of kissing another's skirt”)
• دامنی (dameni, “skirtful”)

Descendants

• Turkish: damen

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “daman3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1091
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دامن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 563
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lacinia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 902
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دامن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2010
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دامن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 884

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dɑː.man]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑː.män]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑː.män]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑː.män]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔː.män]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒː.mæn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔ.män]

Readings
Classical reading?	dāman
Dari reading?	dāman
Iranian reading?	dâman
Tajik reading?	doman

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Noun

دامن • (dâman)

1. skirt

Related terms

• دامنه (dâmane)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دامن (dāman).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.mən/
• Rhymes: -ən
• Hyphenation: دا‧مَن

Noun

دامَن • (dāman) m (Hindi spelling दामन)

1. (clothing) hem of a garment; skirt, petticoat

   Synonyms: آنچَل (āncal), پَلُّو (pallū)

2. (geography) outskirts, edges; foothills
3. (nautical) sail

Declension

Declension of دامن
	singular	plural
direct	دامَن (dāman)	دامَن (dāman)
oblique	دامَن (dāman)	دامَنوں (dāmanõ)
vocative	دامَن (dāman)	دامَنو (dāmano)

Further reading

More information

• “دامن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دامن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “داماں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 300
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دامن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “دامن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دامن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.