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damar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English

Syllables
damar
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) and Symplocos (family Symplocaceae), used in varnishes and inks

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (family Araucariaceae) and Hopea (family Dipterocarpaceae), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A male given name.

Etymology

From Malay damar. Compare Middle English dambre (“a kind of resin”).

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

damars (plural) dammar (alternative) dammara (alternative) dammer (alternative)

Synonyms

dammar gum dammar dammar resin

Questions

What does damar mean?
A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis.
Where does damar come from?
From Malay damar. Compare Middle English dambre (“a kind of resin”).

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