dama
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- lady, dame
- (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
- damiere Italian
- damista Italian
- dame French
- damier French
- madame French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- Juana Spanish, Castilian
- damajuana 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
- damo Esperanto
- dama Catalan, Valencian
- dama Galician
- damă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- damo Ido
- дама Bulgarian
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- madanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- daime Bourguignon
- danme Picard