From en.wiktionary.org:
[Dim]
** Translingual
*** Symbol
[mul-symbol]
1. [3]
2. [mul] [en]
3. [mul] diminished chord
*** See also
- [dim]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [dĭm] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], from [en], [ang], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Compare
[fo], [is] and [is].
**** Adjective
[er]
1. Not bright or colorful.
2. * [passage=that sustaining Love / Which, through the web of being blindly wove / By man and beast and earth and air and sea, / Burns bright or DIM]
3. [en] Not smart or intelligent.
4. Indistinct , hazy or unclear.
5. Disapproving , unfavorable: [rarely used outside the phrase [en] .]
***** Synonyms
[en]
***** Derived terms
{{col4|en |dimly|dimbo|dimmish|dimmity|dimmy|dimsome|dimwit |dim bulb
|dim-headed |dim-lit |dim-sighted |dim-witted → dim-wittedness |nice-but-dim|
dim and distant }}
***** Translations
[not bright, not colourful]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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[not smart]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
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[indistinct]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] (due to foggy surroundings)
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Korean: [ko]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Dimness .
2. * [1=en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To make something less bright .
2. [en] To become dark er.
3. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
4. * [passage=a king among his courtiers, [...] who out to DIM the lustre of all his attendants]
5. * [volume=II]
6. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
7. * [part=1]
8. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1740 | author=w:Christopher Pitt | title=The Aeneid
|passage=Her starry eyes were DIMM'D with streaming tears.}}
1. [en] [en] To diminish , dull , or curtail .
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|undimmed|autodimming|undimming|dimmable|fordim |bedim |dimmable
|dimmer<pos:n> |nondimmable |undimmable |undimmed }}
***** Translations
[to make something less bright]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [United States]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[to become darker]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Galician: [gl]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
- [en] [etymologically unrelated]
- [en] [etymologically unrelated]
*** Etymology 2
**** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] [en] [en] .
**** See also
- [en] [diminuendo]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Galician
*** Verb
[gl]
1. [dizer]
** Indonesian
*** Pronunciation
- [id]
- [id]
*** Etymology 1
From [id].
**** Noun
[id-noun]
1. thumb
2. inch
*** Etymology 2
From [id].
**** Noun
[id-noun]
1. high-beam headlamp on a road vehicle
*** Further reading
- [R:KBBI Daring]
** Kashubian
*** Etymology
[csb].
*** Pronunciation
[csb-pr]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. smoke
*** Further reading
- [dym]
- [+]
** Latvian
*** Verb
[lv]
1. [lv]
2. [with the particle [lv]] [lv]
3. [with the particle [lv]] [lv]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb]. Related to [en] and [is].
*** Adjective
[nb]
1. [en]
2. to have bad vision
*** References
- [lang=nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology 1
From the [nn] adjective [non], from [nn]. The neuter noun is derived from the
adjective. The automotive senses may be a [nn] of the verb [nn].
**** Adjective
[nn]
1. gloomy
2. [en]
3. having bad vision
***** Related terms
- [nn] , [nn] [verb]
**** Noun
[dimm]
1. [nn] a switch ing of one's headlamps from high-beam to low-beam
2. [nn] lever , button or other
3. [nn] [nn]
**** Noun
[dimm]
1. [nn] [en] , dark est part of the summer night
2. [nn] twilight
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[dimm]
1. [nn] [nn]
*** References
- [R:ND]
*** Anagrams
- [nn]
[nn]
** Old English
*** Adjective
[ang-adj]
1. [ang]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Etymology
[sh] [sh], from [sh], from [sh].
*** Pronunciation
- [sh]
*** Noun
[dȉm]
1. smoke
**** Declension
{{sh-decl-noun |dim|dimovi |dima|dimova |dimu|dimovima |dim|dimove
|dime|dimovi |dimu|dimovima |dimom|dimovima }}
**** Derived terms
- [sh]
[sh]
** Slovene
*** Etymology
[sl] From [sl].
*** Pronunciation
- [dȉm]
*** Noun
[dȉm]
1. smoke
**** Declension
[dìm]
*** Further reading
- [R:sl:Fran]
[sl]
** Sumerian
*** Romanization
[sux-rom]
1. [sux]
** Sundanese
*** Etymology
[su].
*** Noun
[su]
1. inch
*** References
- [R:Coolsma]
[su]
** Talysh
*** Noun
[tly]
1. face
[tly]
** Welsh
*** Etymology
From [cy], cognate with the rare [sga] (which may be a Brythonic loanword),
with further etymology [cy]. Matasović derives the word from [cy],
dissimilated from [cy].[1] Alternatively, Morris-Jones hypothesizes the
original meaning was [share, portion] and derives the word from [cy], from
[cy].[2]
Development of the particle sense (“not”) is an instance of 吴语: Jespersen's
Cycle.[3]
*** Pronunciation
- [cy]
- [cy]
*** Adjective
[cy]
1. any
2. no , not , none
*** Pronoun
[cy]
1. [in negative phrases] nothing , anything
2. none , nil , zero
**** Derived terms
- [cy]
- [cy]
- [cy]
- [cy]
**** Related terms
- [cy] , [cy]
- [cy] , [cy]
- [cy]
- [cy]
*** Particle
[cy]
1. not
**** Usage notes
As a verbal particle, almost always appears mutated as [cy].
**** Synonyms
- [cy] [cy]
*** Mutation
[cy-mut]
*** References
References:
[1]. [100]
[2]. [page=315]
[3]. [last1=Borsley ]
*** Further reading
- [R:cy:GPC]