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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kæm]
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”))

Noun

cam (plural cams)

1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. (Britain, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.

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4. (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• climbing cam

Etymology 2

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)

Noun

cam (plural cams)

1. (informal) Camera.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

1. To go on webcam with someone.

Etymology 3

Adverb

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

1. Alternative form of kam

Further reading

• cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac-, Mac., mac

Acholi

Noun

cam

1. food

Caló

Etymology

Inherited from Romani kham, from Sanskrit ???? (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).

Noun

cam m (plural cames)

1. (astronomy) sun

   Synonym: ocán

References

• “cam” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, ?OCLC, page 26.
• “cam” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
• “cam” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

French

Etymology

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Noun

cam f (plural cams)

1. cam (device for filming)

Noun

cam m (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

Alternative forms

• (contre-amiral): CAm

Anagrams

• AMC

Galician

Noun

cam m (plural cans)

1. Alternative form of can

References

https://estraviz.org/cam

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish camm. The sense ‘bent, gay’ is a semantic loan from English bent.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kaum?/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /k??m?/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kam?/

Adjective

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

1. crooked
2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)

   Synonym: lúbtha

Declension

Mutation

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish camm

Adjective

cam (plural cammey)

1. crooked
2. deformed
3. deceitful
4. (of wood) knotty

Verb

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

Mutation

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (jâm).

Noun

cam f

1. glass

Old Irish

Adjective

cam

1. Alternative spelling of camm

Declension

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

Adverb

cam

1. approximately, a little
2. rather

Related terms

• ca

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish camm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?m/, /k?aum/

Adjective

cam

1. crooked, askew

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Comparative/superlative: caime

Mutation

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ???? (jâm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?am/

Noun

cam (definite accusative cam?, plural camlar)

1. glass

Synonyms

• s?rça

Vietnamese

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“orange”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ka?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ka?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ka?m??]

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, qu?) cam

1. orange
2. Short for cam sành (“Citrus reticulata × sinensis”).

See also

Adjective

cam

1. made of oranges
2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

See also

Etymology 2

Short for camera.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

1. step, pace, footstep
2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint
4. step (of a process), stage, phase

Derived terms

• cam a cham (“step by step”)
• camu (“to step”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos, from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kambo- (“crooked”). Compare Old Irish camm.

Adjective

cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

1. bent, crooked, distorted
2. wrong, false, incorrect
3. wrong, unjust

Derived terms

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

1. wrong, misdeed

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English cam.

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

1. cam

Mutation

References

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *c.ra?m? (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ??? (t?am), Northern Thai ????, Lao ??? (th?m), Lü ??? (?haam), Shan ???? (th?am), Ahom ???????? (tham), ???????????? (tham) or ???????????????????? (thuem), Saek ????.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?m??/
• Tone numbers: cam¹
• Hyphenation: cam

Verb

cam (old orthography cam)

1. to ask (to request an answer)
2. to inquire; to ask
3. to ask for instructions

English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kambos; compare jamb and Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Irish cam.

Adjective

kam (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) crooked, awry

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese kam.

Adjective

kam (comparative more kam, superlative most kam)

1. (colloquial, in reference to a person) weird
2. (colloquial) awkward

Anagrams

• AMK, KMA, Mak, ma'k, mak

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kam.

Noun

kam (plural kamme)

1. comb

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka?m]

Noun

kam (Kana spelling ??)

1. flesh, meat

Albanian

Etymology

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”). The other forms are from Proto-Albanian *kapmi, from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p- (“to seize, to grasp”), cognate with Latin capi? (“take, seize”), and akin to Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to have, to hold”) (whence English have, German haben (“to have”), Gothic ???????????????????? (haban, “to have”)). Cf. also Romanian am (“I have”), first-person singular indicative form of avea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kam]

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

• active voice

Related terms

• kap

References

Angloromani

Alternative forms

• kan, tam

Etymology

From Romani kham, from Sanskrit ???? (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?æm], [?cæm]

Noun

kam

1. sun

References

• “kam” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.

Chinese

Etymology

Romanisation of ? or ?.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kam (Cantonese)

1. (colloquial, in reference to a person) weird
2. (colloquial) awkward

Descendants

• ? English: kam

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Adverb

kam

1. where, whither (to what place)

Antonyms

• odkud

Further reading

• kam in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• kam in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “kam” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• 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

Verb

kam

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

Anagrams

• mak

Garo

Etymology

Borrowed from Assamese ??? (kam).

Noun

kam

1. work

Derived terms

• kam ka·a

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka?m]

Verb

kam

1. first/third-person singular indicative past of kommen

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Adverb

kam

1. than, as, to (in comparison)

See also

• tam

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

Noun

kam m gen. kamienia

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

Latvian

Pronoun

kam

1. dative form of kas

Lithuanian

Pronoun

kam m

1. (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?

Synonyms

• (why) kod?l
• (why) d?l ko

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Armenian ??? (kam).

Noun

kam ?

1. threshing sledge, threshing board

   Synonyms: cencer, patoz

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse kambr

Noun

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

1. a comb

Derived terms

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

References

• “kam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kambr. Akin to English comb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?/

Noun

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

1. a comb

Derived terms

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

References

• “kam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Phalura

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Adjective

kam (invariable, Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. less
2. inferior

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâ?m/

Noun

k?m m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (poetic) stone, rock

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *kamo.

Adverb

kam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

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

Synonyms

• kamo

Swedish

Etymology

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

That in turn derived from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, whence also Old English camb (English comb), Old High German kamb (German Kamm). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?ómb?os (“tooth (animate)”), whence also Ancient Greek ?????? (gómphos, “peg”), Lithuanian žam?bas, Old Church Slavonic ???? (z?b?, “tooth”), Russian ??? (zub, “tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/, IPA^(key): [k?am]

Noun

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

Declension

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• kamma

References

Anagrams

• mak

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English come

Noun

kam

1. come

Yogad

Pronoun

kam

1. you (plural)

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• kom

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cam/

Pronoun

kam

1. who