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English

Etymology

Shortened from camisole.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæmi/

Noun

cami (plural camis)

1. (colloquial) A camisole.

Anagrams

• -amic, -icam, ACMI, CIMA, CMIA, Maci, aMCI, amic, cima, iMac, mica

Italian

Noun

cami m pl

1. plural of camo

Latin

Noun

c?m?

1. nominative plural of c?mus
2. genitive singular of c?mus
3. vocative plural of c?mus

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (j?mi?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d????m?]

Noun

c?mi (definite accusative camiyi, plural camiler)

1. (religion, Islam) mosque

Declension

See also

• camii

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