Definition: Dam Meaning in English to Urdu is روک, as written in Urdu and Rok, as written in Roman Urdu. There are many synonyms of Dam which include Bank, Barrage, Barrier, Dike, Ditch, Gate, Grade, Hindrance, Levee, Milldam, Millpond, Obstruction, Weir, etc.
n
. A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
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. A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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. A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
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. A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
transitive v
. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
transitive v
. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
How To Spell Dam
[dam]
Origin of Dam
Middle English: from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch; related to Dutch dam and German Damm, also to Old English fordemman ‘close up’.
Urdu Meaning
Find the correct meaning of Dam in Urdu, it is important to understand the word properly when we translate it from English to Urdu.
There are always several meanings of each word in Urdu, the correct meaning of Dam in Urdu is روک, and in roman we write it Rok.
The other meanings are Pushta, Band and Rok.
It finds its origins in Middle English: from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch; related to Dutch dam and German Damm, also to Old English fordemman ‘close up’.
There are also several similar words to Dam in our dictionary, which are Bank, Barrage, Barrier, Dike, Ditch, Gate, Grade, Hindrance, Levee, Milldam, Millpond, Obstruction and Weir.
Apart from similar words, there are always opposite words in dictionary too, the opposite words for Dam are Aid, Assistance, Help and Promotion.
Dam is spelled as [dam].
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روک
Dam