dama
Catalan
noun
Definitions
- lady graceful, elegant or noble woman
- (chess) queen
Etymology
Borrowed from French dame (lady, king doubled piece in checkers) derived from Latin domina (mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household).
Origin
Latin
domina
Gloss
mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婦
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dame English
- domina English
- *domnicella Latin
- domina Latin
- domna Latin
- Dame German
- dama Italian
- dame French
- damier French
- madame French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- dama Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- dama Portuguese
- dama Polish
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- dame Danish
- dame Old French
- Joana Catalan, Valencian
- damajoana Catalan, Valencian
- dama Galician
- damă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- дама Bulgarian
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- madanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- daime Bourguignon
- danme Picard