In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
dammar, gum dammar, damar, dammar resin
(noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dammar (countable and uncountable, plural dammars)
Alternative form of damar
• amdram
Source: Wiktionary
Dam"mar, Dam"ma*ra, n. Etym: [Jav. & Malay. damar.]
Definition: An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine. Dammar pine, (Bot.), a tree of the Moluccas (Agathis, or Dammara, orientalis), yielding dammar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.