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damă
lady /ˈda.mə/
noun#5607 most common
Also: queen (playing card), piece in checkers/draughts, prostitute (euphemistic, in 'dama nopții')
Example sentences
Am o damă de cupă în mână.
I have a queen of hearts in my hand.
Bunicul meu joacă dame în parc în fiecare după-amiază.
My grandfather plays checkers in the park every afternoon.
La cărți, dama bate valetul, dar pierde în fața regelui.
In cards, the queen beats the jack, but loses to the king.
Dama de pică este cartea mea preferată din pachet.
The queen of spades is my favorite card in the deck.
În secolul al XIX-lea, o damă din protipendadă nu ieșea singură pe stradă.
In the 19th century, a lady of high society did not go out alone in the street.
Presa de scandal o numea „dama nopții", deși nimeni nu-i cunoștea adevărata identitate.
The tabloid press called her 'the lady of the night,' though nobody knew her true identity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | dama | damele |
| Genitive | damei | damelor |
| Accusative | dama | damele |
| Vocative | damo | damelor |
Word family
doamnălady, madam (the everyday, native word)domnmister, gentleman, lord
joc de damethe board game checkers/draughts
damă de companiea paid female companion or escort
dama nopțiieuphemism for a prostitute, literally 'lady of the night'
Etymology
Damă entered Romanian from French dame, which descends from Latin domina, meaning mistress of the house or lady of rank. The word arrived relatively late, alongside other French-influenced vocabulary of the 19th century, so it carries a bookish, imported flavor next to the older native word doamnă, which came from the same Latin root through direct inheritance. From the base sense of a well-born woman, Romanian extended damă to the queen in playing cards and to a piece in the board game dame, both borrowed alongside the games themselves.
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