bam
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]bam
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /bæm/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -æm
Etymology 1
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bam
- Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
- The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
- 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266:
- We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
- Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
- She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
Synonyms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bam (plural bams)
Etymology 3
[edit]Perhaps from bamboozle.
Noun
[edit]bam (plural bams)
- (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
- 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
- To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Verb
[edit]bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)
- (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
- 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:
- This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
- 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
- I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
- (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]bam (plural bams)
- Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Anagrams
[edit]Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bem1
- Cantonese Pinyin: bem1
- Guangdong Romanization: bém1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɛːm⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
[edit]bam
Derived terms
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]bam
Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Malay bam, from Persian بام (bâm, “ceiling”).[1]
Noun
[edit]bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)
- bam: boom of a large drum
References
[edit]- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading
[edit]- “bam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Old Frisian
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Alternative forms
[edit]- baem (Late Old Frisian)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow”). Cognates include Old English bēam, Old Saxon bōm and Old Dutch bōm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bām m
Inflection
[edit]Declension of bām (masculine a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bām | bāmar, bāma |
genitive | bāmes | bāma |
dative | bāme | bāmum, bāmem |
accusative | bām | bāmar, bāma |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Old Saxon
[edit]Noun
[edit]bām m
- Alternative form of bom
Pnar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Khasian *baːm (“to eat”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaam (“to chew”). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá̤m, Ngeq baːm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bam
- to eat
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bam
- dong, ding dong (used when imitating a clock or watch)
- Synonyms: bim-bam, bim-bam-bom
Further reading
[edit]- bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bam
References
[edit]- bam in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Tày
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ɓaːm˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [ɓaːm˦]
Adjective
[edit]bam
- concave
- Lâ̱ư nà mì lai búng bam.
- The fields have a lot of indented areas.
References
[edit]- Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary][2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]bam (nominative plural bams)
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