kam

kam

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kamba.

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.

kam (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Crooked, awry.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     This is clean kam.

• “cam, adj. and adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• AMK, KMA, Mak, ma'k, mak

From Dutch kam.

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kam (plural kamme)

1. comb

• IPA^(key): [ka̠m]

kam (Kana spelling カㇺ)

1. flesh, meat

Suppletive. The aorist and participle are from Proto-Albanian *pat(i)-, from Proto-Indo-European *poti-o-, cognate with Latin potior (“to have a share in, take possession of”).[1] The other forms are from Proto-Albanian *kapmi, from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, to grasp”), cognate with Latin capiō (“take, seize”), and akin to Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, to hold”) (whence English have, German haben (“to have”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban, “to have”)). Cf. also Romanian am (“I have”), first-person singular indicative form of avea.

• IPA^(key): [kam]

kam (first-person singular past tense pata, participle pasur)

1. I have
2. (impersonal, third person) There is

• active voice

• kap

• kan, tam

Inherited from Romani kham.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʰæm], [ˈcæm]

kam

1. sun

• “kam”, in Angloromani Dictionary, The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, archived from the original on 2021-11-26, page 141

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kam

1. (Cantonese, of people) cringy; weird; awkward
2. (Cantonese, of event or action) cringy; embarrassing

Onomatopoeic.

kam

1. (Cantonese) to clear one's throat

• kem

Inherited from Old Czech kamo, from Proto-Slavic *kamo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkam]

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kam

1. where, whither (to what place)

   Antonym: odkud

• kam in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• kam in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• kam in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Old Norse kambr, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, Norwegian, Swedish kam, English comb, German Kamm. The Germanic noun goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth, peg”), which is also the source of Sanskrit: जम्भः (jámbhaḥ, “tooth”), Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”), Polish ząb (“tooth”).

kam c (singular definite kammen, plural indefinite kamme)

1. comb
2. crest (of an animal)
3. loin, back (of a butchered animal)
4. ridge (of a mountain)

• “kam” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch kamp, from Old Dutch *kamb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.

• IPA^(key): /kɑm/
• Rhymes: -ɑm

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Kam

kam m (plural kammen, diminutive kammetje n)

1. A comb, utensil to groom hair, fur etc.
2. (anatomy etc.; by analogy) A ridge, erect shape
3. (technical) A cam
4. bridge (e.g. of a violin)

• kamband n
• kamblad n
• kambuisje n, kametui n
• kamdoos
• kamdoublet n
• kamdrager
• kamduiker
• kamduin
• kamhaak
• kamgaren n
• kamgras n
• kamhaak
• kamhout n
• kamkever
• kammeling
• kammen
• kammer m
• kammig (also -kammig in compounds)
• kammug
• kamneus
• kamoester
• kamplaat
• kamrad n
• kamreep
• kamschede
• kamschelp
• kamslager
• kamvaren
• kamsel n
• kamvaren
• kamwiel n
• (comb types by use) haarkam, paardekam, roskam
• stofkam

• Afrikaans: kam
• Berbice Creole Dutch: kam
• Negerhollands: kam
• Skepi Creole Dutch: kam
• → English: cam
  • → Welsh: cam
• → French: came
  • → Romanian: camă
• → Italian: camma
• → Sranan Tongo: kankan, kam, kamm
  • → Aukan: kankan
  • → Saramaccan: kán

kam

1. first-person singular present indicative of kammen
2. imperative of kammen

• mak

Borrowed from Assamese কাম (kam).

kam

1. work

• kam ka·a

• IPA^(key): [kaːm]

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kam

1. first/third-person singular preterite of kommen

• IPA^(key): /kám/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kám]

kam

1. firmly, tightly
2. adamant, insistent

• kam-kam

Borrowed from Latin quam. The initial qu was changed to k so as not to cause confusion with the word with quan.

• IPA^(key): /kam/

kam

1. than, as, to (in comparison)

   La karno esas plu fresha kam la fisho. ― The meat is fresher than the fish.

   Co esas tam utila kam to. ― This one is as useful as that one.

• tam

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kamy.

kam ? gen. kamienia

1. A stone, rock, boulder
2. A shoal, reef (above or below water)

• “kam”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “kamień”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

kam

1. dative form of kas

kam

1. dative of kas
2. (pejorative) (interrogative) why, for what reason, what's the reason (literally: who for)

   O kam tau to reikia?

   And why do you barely need this?

• (why) kodėl
• (why) dėl ko

From Armenian կամ (kam).[1][2]

kam ?[3]

1. threshing sledge, threshing board

   Synonyms: cencer, patoz

From Old Norse kambr.

kam m (definite singular kammen, indefinite plural kammer, definite plural kammene)

1. a comb

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

• “kam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse kambr. Akin to English comb.

• IPA^(key): /kɑmː/

kam m (definite singular kammen, indefinite plural kammar, definite plural kammane)

1. a comb

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

• “kam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Urdu کم‎ (kam), from Persian کم‎ (kam).

• IPA^(key): /kam/

kam (invariable, Perso-Arabic spelling کم)

1. less
2. inferior

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

• IPA^(key): /kâːm/

kȃm m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑м)

1. (poetic) stone, rock

From Proto-Slavic *kamo.

kam (Cyrillic spelling кам)

1. (Kajkavian) where (to), in which direction, whither

• kamo

kam

1. Romanization of 𒄰 (kam)

From Old Swedish kamber, from Old Norse kambr,[1] cognate with Danish kam[1] and Dutch kam.

That in turn derived from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, whence also Old English camb (English comb), Old High German kamb (German Kamm).[1] Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth (animate)”),[1] whence also Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”),[1] Lithuanian žam̃bas, Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ, “tooth”), Russian зуб (zub, “tooth”).

• IPA^(key): /kam/, IPA^(key): [kʰam]

kam c

1. a comb for grooming hair
2. a comb, a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles
3. a crest, summit of a hill or mountain ridge
4. a crest, ridge of a wave
5. a cam, a part of an engine

• bergskam (mountain ridge)
• vågkam (wave ridge)

• kamma

• mak

From English come.

kam

1. come
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:2:

     Tudak i karamapim bikpela wara na spirit bilong God i go i kam antap long en.

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kam

1. you (plural)

• kom

• IPA^(key): /cam/

kam

1. who