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fpm

English

Noun

fpm (plural fpms)

  1. Initialism of feet per minute.
  2. Initialism of fellow management program.

Coordinate terms

  • (feet per minute): fps (feet per second)

Anagrams

  • MFP, PFM, PMF, pmf

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fam

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

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