Dame
German (Berlin)
/ˈdaːmə/
noun
Definitions
- lady woman of good breeding and manners
- lady; madam polite term to refer to any woman
- (chess) queen
- (checkers) king
- (title) DameDame
Etymology
Derived 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
- damehood English
- damely English
- dameship English
- damewort English
- domina English
- schooldame English
- stepdame English
- *domnicella Latin
- domina Latin
- domna Latin
- -n- German
- Anstand German
- Anstandsdame German
- Bauer German
- Besuch German
- Binde German
- Brett German
- Damebrett German
- Damenbauer German
- Damenbesuch German
- Damenbinde German
- Damenflügel German
- Damentoilette German
- Damenuhr German
- Empfang German
- Empfangsdame German
- Flügel German
- Herz German
- Herzdame German
- Toilette German
- Uhr German
- dáma Hungarian
- dámák Hungarian
- dama Italian
- damiere Italian
- damista Italian
- dame French
- damier French
- jeu de dames French
- madame French
- да́мка Russian
- 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 Middle English
- damm Old Norse
- dame Danish
- dame Old French
- damo Esperanto
- dama Catalan, Valencian
- dama Galician
- damă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- дама Bulgarian
- דמקה Hebrew (modern)
- deem Scots
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- madanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- daime Bourguignon
- danme Picard