daman
French, noun/da.mɑ̃/
daman is spelled D-A-M-A-N (5 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Daman is a French masculine noun meaning “hyrax (any species of the order Hyracoidea)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit mammifère pachyderme ressemblant à une marmotte, vivant au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique”.
What does daman mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehyrax (any species of the order Hyracoidea)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit mammifère pachyderme ressemblant à une marmotte, vivant au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique.
noun: 1. Variante de d’man.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of daman
- damans plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce daman?
- /da.mɑ̃/
- \da.mɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to daman
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is daman in French?
daman appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).