Number: 1985
Proto-Semitic: *(ʔa-)dām-
Meaning: 'red'
Akkadian: adamātu (adumātu) s. pl. tantum 'dark red earth (used as a dye)' OB [CAD a1 94] (otherwise from "earth"), adamu (adammu, adumu) OAkk on 'a red garment' [ibid. 95]; cf. metathetic (SB) daʔmu 'dark-colored, dark-red' [ibid. d 74]
Ugaritic: ʔidm 'red (?)' [DLU 9]; ʔadmānu ' red (earth)' [Huehn 104]
Hebrew: ʔādōm 'reddish(-brown), of blood, grape-juice, lentils, cow, horse, skin' [KB, 15], ʔădamdām 'bright red, reddish' [ibid.]
Arabic: dmm 'teindre en rouge' [BK 1 728]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ʔaddāmāwi 'red' [LGz 8]
Amharic: addämä 'to be blood-red' [LGz 8] (otherwise <"blood"; dama 'brown (mule, horse), reddish' [LGur 207]
Harari: (?) Harari däma 'brown, of dark color (man)' [LHar 56]
Gurage: (all dialects) dama 'brown (mule, horse), reddish' [LGur 207], Masqan dämyä 'red (maize)', Chaha Muher etc. dämyät 'red, reddish' [ibid. 210]
Notes: acc. to Leslau, all SEth forms are < Oromo dama
