[dām], m. price, value.
[◀MIA: Pk. damma- m. ‘a coin’ ◀OIA dramma- ‘a coin’ Pañcat. ←MPers. drahm ‘drachm’ (> NPers. dirham ‘money’, diram ‘a weight (drachma), a silver coin’) ←Gk. δραχμή ‘drachma, coin’ <‘handful’ ◀PIE *dergh- ‘to grasp’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. target ]
☞ (Platts, 1884) 0502; (Turner, 1966) 6622; (MW, 1899) 0500; (Pokorny, 1959) 0212; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 3.271; (MacKenzie, 1971) 027
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