zam

zam

1. 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.

From Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“tame”). Cognate with German zahm, Dutch tam, English tame, Icelandic tamur.

zam (Uri)

1. tame, gentle
2. (of weather) mild

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 68.

From 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/.

zam

1. weapon, arm

• Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

From 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.

• IPA^(key): /tsaːm/
  • Rhymes: -aːm
  • Homophone: Zam

zam (masculine zamen, neuter zaamt, comparative méi zam, superlative am zaamsten)

1. tame

• wëll

From Proto-West Germanic *tam, see also Old English tam, Old Norse tamr.

zam

1. tame

• Middle High German: zam
  • Alemannic German: zam
  • German: zahm
  • Hunsrik: zaam
  • Luxembourgish: zam

From Ottoman Turkish ضم‎ (zam), from Arabic ضَمّ‎ (ḍamm).

• IPA^(key): [zɑm]

zam (definite accusative zammı, plural zamlar)

1. surcharge

   Synonym: sürşarj

2. increase in price

   Synonym: bindirim

   Benzinden sonra dizeli de zam vurdu.

   After gasoline an increase in price also hit diesel.

3. salary raise

   Memurlara � zam verdik.

   We gave civil servants a 17% salary raise.

• indirim

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “zam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ضم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1213