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Translingual

Symbol

lam

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lamba.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /læm/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

Alternative forms

Verb

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

  1. (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
    • 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,
      An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
    • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter:
      They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]
  2. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
    • 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4:
      Batman and Robin! Let's lam!
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
      […] and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.

Noun

lam (plural lams)

  1. (slang) flight, escape
    on the lam
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).

Noun

lam (plural lams)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

Further reading

See also

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lam.

Pronunciation

Noun

lam (plural lammers)

  1. lamb

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

lam

  1. lame
Inflection
Inflection of lam
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular lam — —2
Indefinite neuter singular lamt — —2
Plural lamme — —2
Definite attributive1 lamme — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Pronunciation

Noun

lam n (singular definite lammet, plural indefinite lam)

  1. lamb
Declension
Declension of lam
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lam lammet lam lammene
genitive lams lammets lams lammenes
Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb.

Noun

lam n (plural lammeren, diminutive lammetje n)

  1. lamb, the young of a sheep
  2. (metonymically) The meat - or fleece/wool produce of a lamb; a dish prepared from lamb's meat
  3. (figuratively) A gentle person, especially an innocent child
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: lam, lamtje
  • → Papiamentu: lamchi, lammetsje

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam (comparative lammer, superlative lamst)

  1. lame, unable to move, paralyzed
  2. (informal) very drunk
Inflection
Inflection of lam
uninflected lam
inflected lamme
comparative lammer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial lam lammer het lamst
het lamste
indefinite m./f. sing. lamme lammere lamste
n. sing. lam lammer lamste
plural lamme lammere lamste
definite lamme lammere lamste
partitive lams lammers —
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: lam
  • → Caribbean Javanese: lam
  • → Papiamentu: lam

Anagrams

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic لَام (lām).

Pronunciation

Noun

lam f

  1. lam (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Kokborok

Noun

lam

  1. way

References

  • Binoy Debbarma, Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary (2001)

Limilngan

Noun

lam

  1. frilled-neck lizard

References

  • Mark Harvey, A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia (2001)

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lam n

  1. lamb
Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam

  1. lame
  2. weak, strengthless
Inflection
Adjective
Masculine Feminine Neuter Plural
Nominative Indefinite lam lamme lam lamme
Definite lamme lamme
Accusative Indefinite lammen lamme lam lamme
Definite lamme
Genitive lams lammer lams lammer
Dative lammen lammer lammen lammen
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • Dutch: lam
  • Limburgish: laam

Further reading

Mokilese

Pronunciation

Noun

lam

  1. lagoon

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

  1. paralysed / paralyzed, crippled
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma or lammene)

  1. a lamb (young sheep)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

lam

  1. imperative of lamme

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

  1. paralysed; crippled

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma)

  1. a lamb (young sheep)
  2. (by extension, Christianity, figurative) Christ as sacrificial lamb
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lam

  1. imperative of lamma (to lamb)
  2. imperative of lamma (to paralyze)

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laimą.

Pronunciation

Noun

lām n

  1. clay, loam

Declension

Declension of lam (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative lām lām
accusative lām lām
genitive lāmes lāma
dative lāme lāmum

Descendants

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz, whence also Old English lama, Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam

  1. lame

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

lam f

  1. genitive plural of lama

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

lam

  1. first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of la

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish lamber, from Old Norse lami, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam (comparative lamare, superlative lamast)

  1. lame, unable to move any limbs
  2. (slang) lame, inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so
    Det var ett lamt försök. Gör ditt bästa istället!
    That was a lame attempt. Do your best instead!

Declension

Inflection of lam
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular lam lamare lamast
Neuter singular lamt lamare lamast
Plural lama lamare lamast
Masculine plural3 lame lamare lamast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 lame lamare lamaste
All lama lamare lamaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

See also

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English lamp.

Noun

lam

  1. lamp

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic لَام (lām).

Noun

lam

  1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ل

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 藍, from Literary Chinese 藍 (lán), using the same disambiguation of 青 (“grue”) with 藍／蓝 (lán, “blue”) and 綠／绿 (lục, “green”). See also xanh (“grue”).

Adjective

lam

  1. (uncommon) blue
    Synonym: xanh dương
Usage notes
Derived terms

See also

Colors in Vietnamese · màu sắc (layout · text)
     trắng      xám      đen
             đỏ; thắm, thẫm              cam; nâu              vàng; kem
             vàng chanh              xanh, xanh lá cây, xanh lục, lục              xanh bạc hà; xanh lục đậm
             xanh lơ, hồ thuỷ; xanh mòng két              xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh              xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam
             tím; chàm              tía              hồng

Etymology 2

Noun

lam • (𥜓)

  1. (architecture) louvers, blinds, shutters
    Synonym: cửa chớp

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Arm and English arm.

Noun

lam (nominative plural lams)

  1. arm
  2. blade
  3. sharp blade

Declension

declension of lam
singular plural
nominative lam lams
genitive lama lamas
dative lame lames
accusative lami lamis
vocative 1 o lam! o lams!
predicative 2 lamu lamus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Noun

lam

  1. Soft mutation of llam.

Mutation

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

Yámana

Noun

lam

  1. sun
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