dama
Polish
noun
Definitions
- lady
- (card games) queen
Etymology
Borrowed from French dame (lady, king doubled piece in checkers) derived from Old French dame (term of address for a woman, the queen in card games and chess, lady, woman) derived from Latin domna, 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
- donna Italian
- dam Dutch, Flemish
- dame French
- damier French
- madame French
- дама Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- dama Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- dueña Spanish, Castilian
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- dama Portuguese
- bawidamek Polish
- bawić Polish
- damski Polish
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- dame Middle English
- damma Old Norse
- dame Danish
- dame Old French
- dama Catalan, Valencian
- dama Galician
- damă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- doamnă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- danme Norman
- дама Bulgarian
- dame Middle French
- dona Old Portuguese
- doamnã Aromanian
- dunna Romansh
- domna Old Occitan
- dona Venetian
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- madanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- daime Bourguignon
- duona Istriot
- danme Picard
- dòna Emilian