fam

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See also: Fam, FAM, fam., Fam., fám, and fâm

English

Etymology

Abbreviations

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fæm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æm

Noun

fam (plural fams)

  1. (informal) Clipping of family.
    I'm gonna visit the fam.
  2. (colloquial, hospitality industry) Clipping of familiarization.
    The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
    She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.
  3. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
    Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
    • 2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:
      “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”

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Anagrams

Bulu (Cameroon)

Noun

fam (plural befam)

  1. man (adult male human)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin famēs (hunger), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (to disappear). Compare Occitan fam or Occitan hami.

Pronunciation

Noun

fam f (uncountable)

  1. hunger (desire for food)
    Synonym: gana
  2. famine, starvation

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Galician

Verb

fam

  1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of fazer

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English pound.

Pronunciation

Noun

fâm m (plural fàmā̀fàmai or fàmfàmai)

  1. pound (currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria)
  2. (colloquial) 2 naira.

Karipúna Creole French

Etymology

From French femme (woman; wife), from Latin fēmina.

Pronunciation

Noun

fam

  1. woman
  2. wife

See also

References

  • Alfred W. Tobler (1987) Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna (in Karipúna Creole French), Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 8

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French femme (woman).

Noun

fam

  1. woman

References

  • Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French femme.

Noun

fam

  1. (derogatory) woman

References

  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Noun

fam

  1. Alternative form of fom

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan fam, from Latin famēs (hunger).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

fam m (uncountable)

  1. hunger

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

fām n

  1. foam

Declension

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Descendants

Old French

Noun

fam oblique singularf (oblique plural fans, nominative singular fam, nominative plural fans)

  1. Alternative form of fame

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin famēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

fam

  1. hunger
    • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:
      Quar senes lieys non puesc viure, / Tant ai pres de s'amor gran fam.
      For without her I cannot live, such great hunger have I for her love.

Descendants

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin famēs.

Noun

fam f (usually uncountable)

  1. (Puter) hunger

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

fam

  1. Soft mutation of mam.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mam fam unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian فهم (fahm).

Noun

fam

  1. intelligence