cham

See also: Cham, ćham, chấm, châm, Châm, chậm, and Cham.

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From French cham, from Turkish han (“lord, prince”) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kæm/

NounEdit

cham (plural chams)

1. Archaic spelling of khan.
   • 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

     But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter […]

2. An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
   • 1997: "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
   • 2007: The Tonsons […] would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3

Etymology 2Edit

See chap.

VerbEdit

cham (third-person singular simple present chams, present participle chamming, simple past and past participle chammed)

1. (obsolete) To chew.
   • 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

     But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]

AnagramsEdit

• ACMH, HAMC, HMAC, Mach, Mach.

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FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Vietnamese Chăm, from Eastern Cham Cam.

AdjectiveEdit

cham (feminine singular chame, masculine plural chams, feminine plural chames)

1. Cham

Etymology 2Edit

From Turkish han (“khan”).

NounEdit

cham m (plural chams)

1. khan

Further readingEdit

• “cham” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [xaumˠ]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): [xɑːmˠ]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [xamˠ]

AdjectiveEdit

cham

1. Lenited form of cam.

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cam	cham	gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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MacaneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”)

NounEdit

cham (plural cham-cham)

1. soil
2. ground

   Fu-fula semeam na cham di Hoing-Gong ― Flowers picked from the soil of Hong Kong

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Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

See ch-.

VerbEdit

cham

1. I am

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Old IrishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cham

1. Alternative spelling of chamm: lenited form of cam.

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /xam/

• Audio

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NounEdit

cham m pers

1. (derogatory) an arrogant, ill-mannered person

   Synonyms: prostak, prymityw

2. (archaic) peasant; countryman; person of low birth

   Synonym: wieśniak

DeclensionEdit

declension of cham

	singular	plural
nominative	cham	chamy
genitive	chama	chamów
dative	chamowi	chamom
accusative	chama	chamów/chamy
instrumental	chamem	chamami
locative	chamie	chamach
vocative	chamie	chamy

Further readingEdit

• cham in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

cham m (plural chãos)

1. Obsolete spelling of chão

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Scottish GaelicEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cham

1. Lenited form of cam.

MutationEdit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cam	cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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TzotzilEdit

VerbEdit

cham

1. (intransitive) to die

   Icham. ― He/she died.

   Mu me jk'an xicham.

   I do not want to die.

   Synonyms: chʼay, chʼay ikʼ, laj, olan

ReferencesEdit

• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.