different between dram vs ram

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dragme, dramme, from Old French dragme, drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?, “unit of weight; a handful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

dram (plural drams)

1. (units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:
   1. One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g).
   2. (pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“¹?₈ ounce apothecary (3.89 g) (symbol: ?)”).
   3. (now uncommon) Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
      • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures":

        Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ?); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ?).

   4. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
3. (by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
4. (historical, mining) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.
   • The Bible (King James Version), Ezra 2:69

     They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams [i.e., the Persian daric] of gold, and five thousand pound of silver […]

Synonyms

• (small amount of something): mite, smidge, smidgeon, bit, pinch
• (small amount of alcohol): nip, shot, slug, snifter, tot

Derived terms

• angel's dram
• dram shop liability

Descendants

• ? Danish: dram
  • ? Faroese: drammur
  • ? Norwegian: dram
• ? Scottish Gaelic: dràm

Translations

Verb

dram (third-person singular simple present drams, present participle dramming, simple past and past participle drammed)

1. (dated, intransitive) To drink drams.

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

2. (dated, transitive) To ply with drams of drink.
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, 'Newcomes xxviii. (1868) II. 335

     The parents. . are getting ready their daughter for sale . . praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.

Etymology 2

From Armenian ???? (dram), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (z?zn /drahm/), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?, “unit of weight, a handful”), from ????????? (drássomai, “I hold, seize”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?æm/, /d??m/

Noun

dram (plural drams)

1. (numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

Translations

Anagrams

• AMDR, Adm'r, RADM, RAdm, arm'd, mard

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dram, from Old French drame, variant of dragme.

Noun

dram c (singular definite drammen, plural indefinite dramme or drammer)

1. dram (a small quantity of an alcoholic drink)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

dram

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

Anagrams

• darm, R'dam

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dram, from Old French drame, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?). Doublet of drakme.

Noun

dram m (definite singular drammen, indefinite plural drammer, definite plural drammene)

1. a dram, nip, shot (usually of brandy)

References

• “dram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dram” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dram, from Old French drame, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?). Doublet of drakme.

Noun

dram m (definite singular drammen, indefinite plural drammar, definite plural drammane)

1. a dram, nip, shot (usually of brandy)

References

• “dram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum

Noun

dr?m m

1. a dream

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ????? (drámi)

Noun

dram n (uncountable)

1. dram
2. tiny amount

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).

Noun

ram (plural rams)

1. A male sheep, typically uncastrated
2. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
3. A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
4. A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
5. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
6. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rammen, from the noun (see above). Compare Old High German rammen.

Verb

ram (third-person singular simple present rams, present participle ramming, simple past and past participle rammed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

   The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.

   Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman’s bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.

2. (transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

   After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.

   To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.

3. (transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

   Rammed earth walls

4. (slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.
   • 1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica

     like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on sheep
• ewe
• hog
• shearling
• teg
• wether

Etymology 3

Likely from Old Norse ramr, rammr (“strong, rank, bitter”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong, overbearing; acrid, rank”), perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above. Compare Scots ram (“a rank odour”). Compare also Middle English rammish (“rank, offensive in smell”).

Adjective

ram (comparative more ram, superlative most ram)

1. (Northern England) Rancid, offensive in smell or taste.

Anagrams

• -mar-, AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MAR, MRA, Mar, Mar., RMA, arm, mar, mar-

Catalan

Etymology

Latin r?mus

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ram/

Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. (architecture) flight of stairs
3. (figuratively) branch (area in business or of knowledge, research)

Derived terms

• ramegall
• ramejar
• ramell

Further reading

• “ram” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “ram” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ram” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/
• Hyphenation: ram
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), from Old Dutch *ram, of West-Germanic origin, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate to English ram (“a male sheep”).

Noun

ram m (plural rammen, diminutive rammetje n, feminine ooi)

1. ram (male sheep)
2. male rabbit
3. battering ram

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ram

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

Anagrams

• arm

Elfdalian

Adjective

ram

1. hoarse

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin r?mus.

Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. branch

Related terms

• rame

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *arame(n), from Late Latin aer?men, from Latin aes (“copper”). Compare Italian rame.

Noun

ram m

1. copper

Gerka

Alternative forms

• ?am

Etymology

Related to Ngas am (“water”).

Noun

ram

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *h?m) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: Gerka ram [?am, ref. < *ham] [Ftp. 1911, 221] = ?àm "Wasser" [Jng. 1965, 174], […]

Haruai

Noun

ram

1. house

Further reading

• Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, Languages in Contact (2000, ?ISBN), page 84: "Examples of basic vocabulary items that are shared by Haruai and Kobon but not by Hagahai (on the basis of the lists in Davies and Comrie (1984)) include, for instance: Haruai ram, Kobon ram 'house';"

Kobon

Noun

ram

1. house

Further reading

• Bernard Comrie, Switch Reference in Huichol, in Switch-reference and Universal Grammar, edited by John Haiman, Pamela Munro, page 29 (in notes):

  hol b? kaj pak-ul ram ud ar-bul

  we-two man pig strike SS-1DU house take go I-1DU

  'we two killed a pig and took it home'

• Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, Languages in Contact (2000, ?ISBN), page 84: "Examples of basic vocabulary items that are shared by Haruai and Kobon but not by Hagahai (on the basis of the lists in Davies and Comrie (1984)) include, for instance: Haruai ram, Kobon ram 'house';"

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian rame (“copper”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ram m

1. copper

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rame, ramme, rom, rem

Etymology

From Old English ramm, from Proto-Germanic *rammaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ram/, /ra?m/, /r?m/

Noun

ram (plural rams)

1. male sheep, ram
2. (astrology) Aries
3. pile driver, battering ram

Descendants

• English: ram
• Scots: ram

References

• “ram, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ram

1. imperative of ramme

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin r?mus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French raim.

Noun

ram m (oblique plural rams, nominative singular rams, nominative plural ram)

1. branch (of a tree, etc.)

Related terms

• ramel

Descendants

• Catalan: ram
• Occitan: ram

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “r?mus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 100, page 39

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin r?mus, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds (“root”).

Noun

ram n (plural ramuri)

1. (rare) branch, bough

Synonyms

• creang?
• ramur?

Related terms

• d?râma
• ramur?
• r?muros

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin r?mus.

Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. (Puter) branch (of tree, river, etc.)
2. (Puter, education) subject

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) rom

Synonyms

• (branch): (Puter) manzina

Etymology 2

Germanic borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ram? (“frame”).

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Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. (Puter) frame, framework

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) rom
• (Sursilvan) rama

Etymology 3

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Noun

ram f (plural rams)

1. (Puter) knot, gnarl

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) rom

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ramr, from Proto-Germanic *ram? (“frame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??m/

Noun

ram c

1. frame (e.g. around a painting)
2. frame, boundaries (the set of options for actions given)
3. frame (a context for understanding)
4. paw (of a bear)
5. bicycle frame

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: raami

Anagrams

• arm, mar

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English rum.

Noun

ram

1. rum

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ram

1. (Central Vietnam) spring roll

Synonyms

• nem