daman
See also: Appendix:Variations of "daman"
English
Etymology
From Arabic دَمَان (damān) (إسرائيل (Isrā'īl)), literally "lamb (of Israel)."
Noun
daman (plural damans)
- The rock hyrax.
Anagrams
Cebuano
Noun
daman
- parasomnia (especially sleeptalking and sleepwalking)
Verb
daman
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic دَمَان (إِسْرَائِيل) (damān (ʔisrāʔīl), literally “lamb (of Israel)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da.mɑ̃/
Noun
daman m (plural damans)
- hyrax (any species of the order Hyracoidea)
Derived terms
- daman arboricole
- daman de Rhodésie
- daman des arbres
- daman des steppes
- daman du Cap
- daman du Hoggar
- daman résistant
Further reading
- “daman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Hiligaynon
Verb
damán
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdaman/ [ˈda.man]
- Rhymes: -aman
- Syllabification: da‧man
Etymology 1
Inherited from Malay daman (“the sheet of a large sail”), from Urdu دامَن (dāman, “sail”), from Persian دامن (“skirt”).
Noun
daman (plural daman-daman)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Kei [Term?].
Noun
daman (plural daman-daman)
- natural dye from tree trunks that are pounded until they release water, usually applied to bowstrings to color and preserve them
Further reading
- “daman”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016