Hindi

Noun

धूम • ‎(dhūm) m

1. fun, blast
2. noise, clamor

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós ‎(“smoke”).

Noun

धूम • ‎(dhūm) m

1. smoke

Derived terms

Synonyms

• धुआँ ‎(dhuā̃)

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰūmás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós ‎(“smoke”). Cognates include Ancient Greek θυμός ‎(thumós), Latin fūmus and Old Church Slavonic дꙑмъ ‎(dymŭ).

Noun

धूम • ‎(dhūmá) m

1. smoke, vapor, mist (RV. etc.)
   • 8th c., Bhavabhuti, Uttararāmacarita (Rama's Last Act), Prelude to act III:

     अनेन पञ्चवटी दर्शनेन / अन्तर्लीनस्य दुःखाग्नेर् / अद्योद्दामं ज्वलिष्यतः ।
     उत्पीड इव धूमस्य / मोहः प्रागावृनोति माम् ॥‎

     anena pañcavaṭī darśanena / antarlīnasya duḥkhāgner / adyoddāmaṃ jvaliṣyataḥ .
     utpīḍa iva dhūmasya / mohaḥ prāgāvṛnoti mām ॥

     The sight of Panchavati / rekindles now the fire of sorrow / that had long been dormant in my heart
     but first, like a dense pall of smoke, / a delirium envelops me.

2. smoke as a sternutatory (in 5 forms): a place prepared for the building of a house (Jyot.)
3. a place prepared for the building of a house
4. wheat (L.)
5. a kind of incense (L.)
6. saint

Declension

Descendants

• Bengali: ধোঁয়া ‎(dhōm̐ẏā)
• Hindi: धूआँ ‎(dhūām̐)
• Telugu: ధూమము ‎(dhūmamu)
• Urdu: دھواں ‎(dhūām̐)

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0518