From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To condemn .
2. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment.
3. * [IV]
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | journal=Time | title='What I Learned From Adopting Two Children With Rare Genetic Conditions' | author=Stephanie Sinclair | date=May 12 2018
|text=Lack of access to support services can DAMN children with disabilities
and lesser means to lives where they never harness their full range of
abilities.
|url=https://time.com/longform/adoption-albinism-stephanie-sinclair/}}
1. To put out of favor ; to ruin ; to label negatively.
2. To condemn as unfit , harmful , invalid , immoral or illegal .
3. * 1708 November 8, [Alexander Pope] , letter to [Henry Cromwell]
4. *: You are not so arrant a critic as to DAMN them [ the works of modern poets ] [...] without hearing.
5. * [en]
6. [en] To curse ; put a curse upon.
7. [en] To invoke damnation; to curse.
8. * C. 1767-1774 , [Oliver Goldsmith] , _letter to Mrs. Bunbury_
9. *: [...] while I inwardly DAMN .
**** Conjugation
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**** Translations
[theology: to condemn]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
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[to put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
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[to condemn as unfit, harmful, invalid, immoral, or illegal]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
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[to put a curse upon]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
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*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] [Generic intensifier.] Fucking ; bloody .
2. * [1=en]
**** Translations
[generic intensifier]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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*** Adverb
[-]
1. [en] Very ; extremely .
2. * [en]
**** Translations
[awfully, extremely]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is] , [is]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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*** Interjection
[en-interj]
1. [en] [Used to express anger , irritation , disappointment , annoyance , contempt or surprise , etc. _See also_ DAMMIT .]
**** Translations
[non-vulgar expression of contempt etc.]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] [dated] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is] , [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] (lit. shit), [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] !, [pl] !, [pl] !, [pl] , [pl] , [pl] [expressive] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] The word "damn" employed as a curse .
2. [en] A small, negligible quantity, being of little value; a whit or jot .
3. [en] The smallest amount of concern or consideration .
**** Translations
[use of damn as a swear word]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] (lit. shit), [ja]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [profane] [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
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[a small, negligible quantity, being of little value]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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[the smallest amount of concern or consideration]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: (un) [it]
- Portuguese: (a ponta de um) [pt]
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- Esperanto: [4] [eo]
- Ido: [io]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
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*** Derived terms
{{col|en|bedamn|damnability|damnatory|damnfool|damnit|damnworthy|foredamn|predamn|undamn|may
God damn you |damage|damnation|damned|damnable|dammit|give a damn|tinker's
damn|goddammit|God damn,goddamn|goddamned|damn skippy|damn straight|damn by
association|damn with faint praise|damn the torpedoes|damn your eyes|damn your
hide|a damn sight|damn all|damn and blast|damn it|damn right|damn well|damn
Yankee|give a tinker's damn|god damn|gods damn|holy damn|hot damn|near as damn
it|damn my eyes|dang<ll:euphemistic>|darn<ll:euphemistic>|dayum<qq:slang,
emphatic form>|dizamn<qq:slang, emphatic form>|I'll be damned|darn well|damn
if I know|give a flying damn|damn if I care|the damn|damn you|be
damned|Billy-be-damned|damned if one does and damned if one doesn't|damned
well |ever-damned |fore-damned|pursuer rigged and parish damned|give a good
damn|damn sure|dammit to hell|damn you all to hell|damned if I know|damned if
I care|oh, damn|ah, damn|well, damn|goddamn you all to hell|damn lucky|damn
luck|dammit all to hell}}
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