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دَم
blood /ˈdam/
nounA1#282 most common
Also: bloodshed, gore
Example sentences
هَذَا دَمٌ.
This is blood.
خَرَجَ الدَّمُ مِنْ أَنْفِهِ.
Blood came out of his nose.
تَبَرَّعْتُ بِالدَّمِ فِي الْمُسْتَشْفَى.
I donated blood at the hospital.
يَجِبُ أَنْ نَعْرِفَ فَصِيلَةَ دَمِهِ قَبْلَ نَقْلِ الدَّمِ.
We must know his blood type before the transfusion.
سُفِكَتْ دِمَاءٌ كَثِيرَةٌ فِي تِلْكَ الْحَرْبِ الْأَهْلِيَّةِ.
Much blood was shed in that civil war.
كَانَ دَمُهُ يَغْلِي غَضَبًا كُلَّمَا سَمِعَ ذَلِكَ الِاتِّهَامَ الظَّالِمَ.
His blood boiled with anger whenever he heard that unjust accusation.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَمٌ | دِمَاءٌ |
| Genitive | دَمٍ | دِمَاءٍ |
| Accusative | دَمًا | دِمَاءً |
| Vocative | يَا دَمُ | يَا دِمَاءُ |
Word family
دِمَاءblood (plural), bloodshed
دَمَوِيّbloody, sanguinaryدَمِيَto bleed
دامٍbleeding, bloody
تَدْمِيةcausing to bleed
Etymology
The Arabic دَم comes from Proto-Semitic *dam, meaning blood. The word stayed remarkably stable across the Semitic languages. Hebrew dām and Aramaic dəmā are close relatives, and Akkadian dāmu shows the same form.
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