dram
/dɹæm/ · noun
Meaning
- A small unit of weight, variously:
- Alternative form of drachm (“One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
- Alternative form of drachm (“One eighth of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ)”).
- Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
- Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
- Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
- A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
- Synonym of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.
- To drink drams.
- To ply with drams of drink.
- The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
- Initialism of dynamic random access memory.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English dragme, dramme, from Old French dragme, drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “unit of weight; a handful”). Doublet of drachma, diram, dirham, dirhem, and adarme.
- δραχμή(Ancient Greek)→
- drachma(Latin)→
- dragma(la-lat)→
- dragme(Old French)→
- dragme(enm)→
- dram (English)
- Relations: inh, der, der, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- dram(Danish) (bor)
- dram(Norwegian Bokmål) (bor)
- dram(Norwegian Nynorsk) (bor)
- dram(Scottish Gaelic) (bor)
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