धूम

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit धूम (dhūma). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”). Doublet of धुआँ (dhuā̃).

Noun

धूम • (dhūm) m

1. smoke

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dʰuHmás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰuHmás, 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

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