daim

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَائِم (dāʔim).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɑim]
• Hyphenation: da‧im

• Audio (Baku):

  (file)

Adverb

daim

1. constantly, all the time

   Synonyms: daima, həmişə, sürəkli

Related terms

• daimi

References

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “daim”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[1] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 1, Baku: Şərq-Qərb

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dain, from Old French daim, dain, from Late Latin dāmus, from Latin damma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ̃/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Homophone: daims

Noun

daim m (plural daims, feminine daine)

1. fallow deer
2. (in general) deer
3. buck
4. buckskin, doeskin; suede
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[2], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Le lendemain, à midi, Rodolphe arriva devant la porte de Charles avec deux chevaux de maître. L'un portait des pompons roses aux oreilles et une selle de femme en peau de daim.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• daine

Further reading

• “daim”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪aβ̃ʲ/

Etymology 1

Inflected forms of dam (“bull”).

Alternative forms

• doim

Noun

daim

1. inflection of dam:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Etymology 2

Inflected forms of daimid (“to suffer, permit”)

Verb

·daim

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of daimid

Verb

daim

1. second-person singular imperative of daimid

Mutation

Mutation of daim

radical	lenition	nasalization
daim	daim pronounced with /ð-/	ndaim

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Talysh

Etymology

Derived from Arabic دائم.

Adverb

daim

1. constantly, all the time

   Synonyms: hoqo, hejo, həmişə

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dai̯˩̰/

Classifier

daim

1. used for objects that are flat, such as sheets and pages

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 31.