zam
English
editInterjection
editzam
- shortened form of kazaam
- 1945, The Author and Journalist, volumes 30-31, page 9:
- Then suddenly — Zam! Zowie! Smash! The Post sends back an article which I was positive it would buy, and which, in fact, it had ordered. One manuscript after another is flung back into my face […]
- 2007, J. W. Brodie-Innes, The Devil's Mistress, page 21:
- You never know when some enemy of the Free World might worm his or her way into your confidence and then — ZAM! Wipe you out.
Alemannic German
editEtymology
editFrom Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“tame”). Cognate with German zahm, Dutch tam, English tame, Icelandic tamur.
Adjective
editzam (Uri)
References
edit- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 68.
Haitian Creole
editEtymology
editFrom French arme. In French, the plural form armes is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, armes was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editzam
References
edit- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Luxembourgish
editEtymology
editFrom Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz. The vowel may be influenced by cognate German zahm. Luxembourgish zam(m) is the expected outcome of the uninflected stem, but one might expect *zuem, *zumm from the inflected forms instead. Also cognate with Dutch tam, English tame.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editzam (masculine zamen, neuter zaamt, comparative méi zam, superlative am zaamsten)
Declension
editnumber and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass zam | si ass zam | et ass zam | si si(nn) zam | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | zamen | zam | zaamt | zam |
independent without determiner | zames | zamer | |||
dative | after any declined word | zamen | zamer | zamen | zamen |
as first declined word | zamem | zamem |
Antonyms
editOld High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *tam, see also Old English tam, Old Norse tamr.
Adjective
editzam
Descendants
editTurkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish ضم (zam), from Arabic ضَمّ (ḍamm).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editzam (definite accusative zammı, plural zamlar)
- surcharge
- Synonym: sürşarj
- increase in price
- Synonym: bindirim
- Benzinden sonra dizeli de zam vurdu.
- After gasoline an increase in price also hit diesel.
- salary raise
- Memurlara %17 zam verdik.
- We gave civil servants a 17% salary raise.
Declension
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Nominative | zam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | zammı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | zam | zamlar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | zammı | zamları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | zamma | zamlara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | zamda | zamlarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | zamdan | zamlardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | zammın | zamların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antonyms
editReferences
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1213
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