lăm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lam"
Bahnar edit
Etymology edit
From Chamic. Compare Eastern Cham ꨕꨤꩌ (dalam).
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
lăm
Chru edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Chamic *dalam, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.
Preposition edit
lăm
References edit
Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 287
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
lăm
Vietnamese edit
Alternative forms edit
- nhăm (northern Vietnam)
Etymology edit
Alteration of năm.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
lăm (𠄻)
- (only in compounds) five
- mười lăm
- fifteen
- hai (mươi) lăm
- twenty-five
- mười lăm
Usage notes edit
- This form is only used in compounds to indicate numbers over ten that end with five, except for 05-ending numbers (such as 105, 2005). This is probably to avoid confusion with năm with the sense "year". For example:
- The variant nhăm is used in Northern Vietnam in numbers greater than 20.
- See also nói ngọng.