بام

• IPA^(key): /bɑm/

بام • (bām) m

1. top of the house
2. roof
   • "Sandara"

     ته چې په بام بندې ولاړه وې ته چا ته کتل. خلک زما په ننداره وو چې ما تا ته کتل

     When you [feminine] were standing on the roof, who were you looking at ? People were observing my spectacle that I was looking at you.

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (bʾn /⁠bān⁠/, “roof, rooftop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to clothe, wear, put on”). Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhana), 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬁𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhāna, “cover”).

• بان (bân), بون (bun)

بام • (bâm)

1. roof

• پشت‌بام (pošt-e-bâm, “rooftop”)

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بام • (bâm)

1. dawn
2. gleam, sheen, shimmer, tinge, hue, color

   Alternative forms: فام (fâm), پام (pâm), وام (wâm)

   سپید بام ― sepid bâm ― of a whitish colour

   گل‌فام ― gol-fâm ― rosy

   ستاره بام ― setâre bâm ― Lucifer; the morning star

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بام”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 183a
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “پام”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 324a
• Vullers, Johann August (1870) “بام”, in Institutiones linguae persicae cum sanscrita et zendica lingua comparatae‎ (in Latin), Gießen: W. Keller, page 232 Nr. 42