damai

See also: dāmài and dàmài

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.me/
• Homophones: damé, damée, damées, damer, damés, damez

Verb

damai

1. first-person singular past historic of damer

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay damai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damay, from Proto-Austronesian *damay (“peace, empathy, harmony”). Cognate with Tagalog damay (“implication, condolence”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdamai̯/ [ˈda.mai̯]

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• Rhymes: -amai̯
• Syllabification: da‧mai

Adjective

damai

1. peaceful

Affixed terms

• berdamai
• berdamaikan
• didamaikan
• diperdamaikan
• keberdamaian
• kedamaian
• keterdamaian
• memperdamai
• memperdamaikan
• mendamai
• mendamaikan
• pemerdamai
• pemerdamaian
• pendamai
• pendamaian
• perdamaian
• terdamai
• terdamaikan

Further reading

• “damai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

damai

1. first-person singular past historic of damare

Anagrams

• madia

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	damai
Brazilian standard	damai
New Tribes	damai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [damaj]

Noun

damai (possessed damaichü)

1. a vine used in barbasco fishing, possibly Swartzia macrophylla

References

• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 34: “damai”
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 288, 388: “damai -da:mai -chü 'fishing with poison' […] damai - fish with poison”
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “damai”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI