Translingual edit

Symbol edit

bam

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

English edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

bam

  1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
    The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
  2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
    She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
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Derived terms edit
Translations edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

bam (plural bams)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.

Etymology 3 edit

Perhaps from bamboozle.

Noun edit

bam (plural bams)

  1. (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
    • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
      To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

Verb edit

bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)

  1. (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
    • 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:
      This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
    • 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
      I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
  2. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

Etymology 4 edit

Noun edit

bam (plural bams)

  1. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams edit

Chinese edit

Etymology edit

Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.

Pronunciation edit


Verb edit

bam

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, neologism) to ban [2006]

Derived terms edit

Iban edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

bam

  1. greedy

Indonesian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Malay bam, from Persian بام (bâm, ceiling).[1]

Noun edit

bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)

  1. (nautical) crosspiece

Etymology 2 edit

Onomatopoeic

Noun edit

bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)

  1. bam: boom of a large drum

References edit

  1. ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018), “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation, page 117-144

Further reading edit

Old Frisian edit

 
Ēn bām.

Alternative forms edit

  • baem (Late Old Frisian)

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (to grow). Cognates include Old English bēam, Old Saxon bōm and Old Dutch bōm.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bām m

  1. tree
  2. bench
  3. seat

Inflection edit

Declension of bām (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative bām bāmar, bāma
genitive bāmes bāma
dative bāme bāmum, bāmem
accusative bām bāmar, bāma

Descendants edit

  • North Frisian:
    Most dialects: buum
    Heligoland: Booam
    Sylt: Boom
  • Saterland Frisian: Boom
  • West Frisian: beam

References edit

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old Saxon edit

Noun edit

bām m

  1. Alternative form of bom

Pnar edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Khasian *baːm (to eat), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaam (to chew). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá̤m, Ngeq baːm.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

bam

  1. to eat

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bam/
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: bam

Interjection edit

bam

  1. dong, ding dong (used when imitating a clock or watch)
    Synonyms: bim-bam, bim-bam-bom

Further reading edit

  • bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

bam

  1. bang

References edit

  • bam in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Volapük edit

Noun edit

bam (nominative plural bams)

  1. bench
  2. seat

Declension edit