different between bam vs zam

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Interjection

bam

1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.

2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.

Synonyms

• bang
• blam
• pow
• wham
• dishoom (India)

Etymology 2

Noun

bam (plural bams)

1. (Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from bamboozle.

Noun

bam (plural bams)

1. (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Garrick to this entry?)

   • 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

bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)

1. (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Foote to this entry?)

   • 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, http://www.questia.com/read/59320440.

     I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.

2. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

Etymology 4

Noun

bam (plural bams)

1. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• -mab, ABM, B. M. A., BMA, MAb, MBA, Mab, Mba, amb, amb., mAb, mab

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• baem (Late Old Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to grow”). Cognates include Old English b?am, Old Saxon b?m and Old Dutch b?m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?m/

Noun

b?m m

1. tree
2. bench
3. seat

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: buum

  Heligoland: Booam

  Sylt: Boom

• Saterland Frisian: Boom
• West Frisian: beam

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Saxon

Noun

b?m m

1. Alternative form of bom

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *ba?m (“to eat”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *?aam (“to chew”). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá?m, Ngeq ba?m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bam/

Verb

bam

1. to eat

Volapük

Noun

bam (nominative plural bams)

1. bench
2. seat

Declension

English

Interjection

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.

Alemannic German

Etymology

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

Adjective

zam (Uri)

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

References

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

Luxembourgish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsa?m/
  • Rhymes: -a?m
  • Homophone: Zam

Adjective

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

1. tame

Declension

Antonyms

• wëll

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz, whence also Old English tam, Old Norse tamr

Adjective

zam

1. tame

Descendants

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

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?amm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m]

Noun

zam (definite accusative zamm?, plural zamlar)

1. surcharge
2. increase in price

3. salary raise

Declension

Antonyms

• indirim

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “zam”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük