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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

Preposition

fao

1. Abbreviation of for the attention of.. Used on an address or label, specifies an individual to whom the document should be delivered, usually put on when the address is of an organisation.

Anagrams

• Foa, OFA, oaf, of a

Venetian

Verb

fao

1. first-person singular present indicative of far