دمہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَمَه (dama). By surface analysis, دَم (dam, “breath”) +‎ ہ (h).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ə.mɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: دَ‧مَہ

Noun

دَمَہ • (dama) m (Hindi spelling दमा)

1. (pathology) asthma

   Synonyms: سانْس کی بِیماری (sāns kī bīmārī), سانْس روگ (sāns rog)

   • 1998, Muhammad Iqbal, کليات مکاتيب اقبال [Collections of the correspondences of Iqbal], New Delhi, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 643:

     صبح اٹھ کر میں نے ڈاکٹر کو بلوایا اور معائنہ کروایا۔
     انھوں نے بھی اس امر کی تصدیق کی ہے کہ یہ دمہ ہے۔

     subh uṭh kar ma͠i ne ḍākṭar ko bulvāyā aur mu'āina karvāyā.
     unhõ ne bhī is amr kī tasdīq kī hai ki ye dama hai.

     When I woke up in the morning, I called the doctor for an examination.
     He, too, confirmed that it is asthma.

2. pair of bellows

Declension

Declension of دمہ

	singular	plural
direct	دَمَہ (damah)	دَمے (dame)
oblique	دَمے (dame)	دَموں (damõ)
vocative	دَمے (dame)	دَمو (damo)

Further reading

More information

• “دمہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دمہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “دمہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دمه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 526
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “دمه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 639
• John Shakespear (1834) “دمه”, 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