different between flam vs fam

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flæm/

Etymology 1

17th century; from flim-flam, itself perhaps from a dialectal word or Scandinavian; compare Old Norse flim (“lampoon, mockery”).

Noun

flam (countable and uncountable, plural flams)

1. A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
2. (archaic) A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext

   Synonyms: deception, delusion

   • 1692, Robert South, "A Further Account of the Nature and Measures of Conscience", in Forty Eight Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions (published 1697)

     all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.

   • a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity

Translations

Verb

flam (third-person singular simple present flams, present participle flamming, simple past and past participle flammed)

1. (obsolete) To deceive with a falsehood.

   • God is not to be flammed off with Lyes.

Translations

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Noun

flam (plural flams)

1. (drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.

Derived terms

• flam paradiddle, flamadiddle

Verb

flam (third-person singular simple present flams, present participle flamming, simple past and past participle flammed)

1. (drumming, transitive, intransitive) To play (notes as) a flam.
   • 1923, Edward B. Straight, The Straight System of Modern Drumming: The "Natural Way" to Play Drums, page 10:

     We will commence to flam the notes now, as most of them are flammed when you play a March.

   • 1975, George Shipway, Free Lance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P (?ISBN):

     Drums ruffled and flammed.

References

Anagrams

• FMLA

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flam m (plural flams)

1. flan (custard dessert)

Further reading

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

Volapük

Noun

flam (nominative plural flams)

1. flame

Declension

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