cham
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From French cham, from Turkish han (“lord, prince”) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cham (plural chams)
- Archaic spelling of khan.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- And ſince we haue arriu’d in Scythia,
Beſides rich preſents from the puiſant Cham,
UUe haue his highneſſe letters to commaund
Aide and aſſiſtance if we ſtand in need.
- 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 […]
- An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four.
- 2007, Michael Dobson, “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 9, page 3:
- The Tonsons […] would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication
Etymology 2 edit
See chap.
Verb edit
cham (third-person singular simple present chams, present participle chamming, simple past and past participle chammed)
- (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 [...]
Etymology 3 edit
From ch- + am, from ich + am.
Contraction edit
cham
- (West Country, obsolete) I am
Synonyms edit
References edit
- Holloway, William (1840) A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, London: John Russell Smith, page 27
Anagrams edit
Antillean Creole edit
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Noun edit
cham
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Vietnamese Chăm, from Eastern Cham Cam.
Adjective edit
cham (feminine chame, masculine plural chams, feminine plural chames)
Noun edit
cham m (plural chams)
- Cham (language)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Turkish han (“khan”).
Noun edit
cham m (plural chams)
Further reading edit
- “cham” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “cham”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cham
- Lenited form of cam.
Macanese edit
Alternative forms edit
- (modern spelling) chám
Etymology edit
From Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cham (plural cham-cham)
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
See ch-.
Verb edit
cham
- I am
Old Irish edit
Adjective edit
cham
Polish edit
Etymology edit
From Cham.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cham m pers (female equivalent chamka or chamica)
- (derogatory) bumpkin, yokel (arrogant, ill-manner person; one who is uncultured and uneducated)
- (archaic, derogatory) countryman, peasant (person of low birth)
Declension edit
Declension of cham
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Portuguese edit
Noun edit
cham m (plural chans)
Scottish Gaelic edit
Adjective edit
cham
- Lenited form of cam.
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cam | cham |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Tzotzil edit
Verb edit
cham
- (intransitive) to die
References edit
- ^ Laughlin, Robert M. (1977) Of cabagges and kings: tales from Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 269.
- Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.