fam
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (AU) (file)
NounEdit
fam (plural fams)
- (informal) Family.
- I'm gonna visit the fam.
- (colloquial, hospitality industry) Familiarization.
- The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
- She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.
- (slang, African American Vernacular, MLE, Canada) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
- Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
AnagramsEdit
Bulu (Cameroon)Edit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan fam, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fam f (uncountable)
- hunger (desire for food)
- famine, starvation
SynonymsEdit
- (hunger): gana
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “fam” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
HausaEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
fâm m (plural fàmā̀fàmai or fàmfàmai)
- pound (currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria)
- (colloquial) 2 naira.
Karipúna Creole FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French femme (“woman; wife”), from Latin femina.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fam
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 1987, Alfred W. Tobler, Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 8.
Louisiana Creole FrenchEdit
Mauritian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
fam
ReferencesEdit
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Middle EnglishEdit
OccitanEdit
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *faimaz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fām n
DeclensionEdit
Declension of fam (strong-a-stem)
DescendantsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
fam f (oblique plural fans, nominative singular fam, nominative plural fans)
- Alternative form of fame
Old OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fam
- 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.
- Quar senes lieys non puesc viure, / Tant ai pres de s'amor gran fam.
- c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, ‘Canso’:
DescendantsEdit
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) fom
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
fam f (usually uncountable)
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fam
- Soft mutation of mam.
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |