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English

Etymology

Clipping of family and familiarization

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

fam (plural fams)

1. (informal) Family.

   I'm gonna visit the fam.

2. (colloquial, hospitality industry) Familiarization.

   The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.

   She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.

3. (slang, African-American Vernacular, MLE, Canada) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.

   Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.

Anagrams

• AFM, AMF, FMA, MAF, MFA

Bulu (Cameroon)

Noun

fam (plural befam)

1. man (adult male human)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan fam, from Latin fam?s (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?H- (“to disappear”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fam f (uncountable)

1. hunger (desire for food)
2. famine, starvation

Synonyms

• (hunger): gana

Derived terms

• afamar

Related terms

• famolenc

Further reading

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

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English pound.

Noun

fâm m (plural fàm??fàmai or fàmfàmai)

1. pound (currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria)
2. (colloquial) 2 naira.

Karipúna Creole French

Etymology

From French femme (“woman; wife”), from Latin femina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fam/

Noun

fam

1. woman
2. wife

See also

• uóm

References

• 1987, Alfred W. Tobler, Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 8.

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French femme (“woman”).

Noun

fam

1. woman

References

• Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French femme

Noun

fam

1. (derogatory) woman

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Noun

fam

1. Alternative form of fome

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan fam, from Latin fam?s (“hunger”).

Noun

fam m (uncountable)

1. hunger

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??m/

Noun

f?m n

1. foam

Declension

Derived terms

• f?man
• f?mi?

Descendants

• Middle English: fome, fom, fam, foom, foome
  • English: foam
  • Scots: fame, faym, faem

Old French

Noun

fam f (oblique plural fans, nominative singular fam, nominative plural fans)

1. Alternative form of fame

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin fam?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fam/

Noun

fam

1. hunger
   • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, ‘Canso’:

     Quar senes lieys non puesc viure, / Tant ai pres de s'amor gran fam.

     For without her I cannot live, such great hunger have I for her love.

Descendants

• Catalan: fam
• Occitan: fam

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin fam?s.

Noun

fam f (usually uncountable)

1. (Puter) hunger

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vam/

Noun

fam

1. Soft mutation of mam.

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (fahm).

Noun

fam ?

1. intelligence

English

Noun

faa (plural faas)

1. The letter ? in the Arabic script.

Anagrams

• A.A.F., AAF, AFA

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• faahe

Etymology

From Old High German f?han, from Proto-Germanic *fanhan?. Compare German fahen, fangen, Dutch vangen, English fang, Icelandic fá.

Verb

faa

1. (Uri) to catch

Conjugation

Strong:

Mixed:

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 86.

Jamamadí

Noun

faa

1. (Banawá) water

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Middle English

Noun

faa

1. Alternative form of fo

Swahili

Etymology

Of Bantu origin.

Pronunciation

Verb

-faa (infinitive kufaa)

1. to fit
2. to be suitable or useful

   Synonym: halisi

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • kifaa

Woleaian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.

Numeral

faa

1. four