different between kam vs kama

English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kambos; compare jamb and Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Irish cam.

Adjective

kam (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) crooked, awry

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese kam.

Adjective

kam (comparative more kam, superlative most kam)

1. (colloquial, in reference to a person) weird
2. (colloquial) awkward

Anagrams

• AMK, KMA, Mak, ma'k, mak

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kam.

Noun

kam (plural kamme)

1. comb

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka?m]

Noun

kam (Kana spelling ??)

1. flesh, meat

Albanian

Etymology

Suppletive. The aorist and participle are from Proto-Albanian *pat(i)-, from Proto-Indo-European *poti-o-, cognate with Latin potior (“to have a share in, take possession of”). The other forms are from Proto-Albanian *kapmi, from Proto-Indo-European *keh?p- (“to seize, to grasp”), cognate with Latin capi? (“take, seize”), and akin to Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to have, to hold”) (whence English have, German haben (“to have”), Gothic ???????????????????? (haban, “to have”)). Cf. also Romanian am (“I have”), first-person singular indicative form of avea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kam]

Verb

kam (first-person singular past tense pata, participle pasur)

1. I have
2. (impersonal, third person) There is

Conjugation

• active voice

Related terms

• kap

References

Angloromani

Alternative forms

• kan, tam

Etymology

From Romani kham, from Sanskrit ???? (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?æm], [?cæm]

Noun

kam

1. sun

References

• “kam” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.

Chinese

Etymology

Romanisation of ? or ?.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kam (Cantonese)

1. (colloquial, in reference to a person) weird
2. (colloquial) awkward

Descendants

• ? English: kam

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech kamo, from Proto-Slavic *kamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Adverb

kam

1. where, whither (to what place)

Antonyms

• odkud

Further reading

• kam in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• kam in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse kambr, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, Norwegian, Swedish kam, English comb, German Kamm. The Germanic noun goes back to Proto-Indo-European *?ómb?os (“tooth, peg”), which is also the source of Sanskrit: ????? (jámbha?, “tooth”), Ancient Greek ?????? (gómphos, “peg”), Polish z?b (“tooth”).

Noun

kam c (singular definite kammen, plural indefinite kamme)

1. comb
2. crest (of an animal)
3. loin, back (of a butchered animal)
4. ridge (of a mountain)

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “kam” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kamp, from Old Dutch *kamb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

kam m (plural kammen, diminutive kammetje n)

1. A comb, utensil to groom hair, fur etc.
2. (anatomy etc.; by analogy) A ridge, erect shape
3. (technical) A cam
4. bridge (e.g. of a violin)

Derived terms

• kamband n
• kamblad n
• kambuisje n, kametui n
• kamdoos
• kamdoublet n
• kamdrager
• kamduiker
• kamduin
• kamhaak
• kamgaren n
• kamgras n
• kamhaak
• kamhout n
• kamkever
• kammeling
• kammen
• kammer m
• kammig (also -kammig in compounds)
• kammug
• kamneus
• kamoester
• kamplaat
• kamrad n
• kamreep
• kamschede
• kamschelp
• kamslager
• kamvaren
• kamsel n
• kamvaren
• kamwiel n
• (comb types by use) haarkam, paardekam, roskam
• stofkam

Verb

kam

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

Anagrams

• mak

Garo

Etymology

Borrowed from Assamese ??? (kam).

Noun

kam

1. work

Derived terms

• kam ka·a

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka?m]

Verb

kam

1. first/third-person singular indicative past of kommen

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quam. The initial qu was changed to k so not to cause confusion the word with quan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Adverb

kam

1. than, as, to (in comparison)

See also

• tam

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

Noun

kam m gen. kamienia

1. A stone, rock, boulder
2. A shoal, reef (above or below water)

Latvian

Pronoun

kam

1. dative form of kas

Lithuanian

Pronoun

kam m

1. (pejorative) (interrogative) why, for what reason, what's the reason (literally: who for)

   O kam tau to reikia?

   And why do you barely need this?

Synonyms

• (why) kod?l
• (why) d?l ko

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Armenian ??? (kam).

Noun

kam ?

1. threshing sledge, threshing board

   Synonyms: cencer, patoz

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse kambr

Noun

kam m (definite singular kammen, indefinite plural kammer, definite plural kammene)

1. a comb

Derived terms

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

References

• “kam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse kambr. Akin to English comb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?/

Noun

kam m (definite singular kammen, indefinite plural kammar, definite plural kammane)

1. a comb

Derived terms

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

References

• “kam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Phalura

Etymology

From Urdu ??? (kam), from Persian ??? (kam).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Adjective

kam (invariable, Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. less
2. inferior

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâ?m/

Noun

k?m m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (poetic) stone, rock

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *kamo.

Adverb

kam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) where (to), in which direction, whither

Synonyms

• kamo

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kamber, from Old Norse kambr, cognate with Danish kam and Dutch kam.

That in turn derived from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, whence also Old English camb (English comb), Old High German kamb (German Kamm). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?ómb?os (“tooth (animate)”), whence also Ancient Greek ?????? (gómphos, “peg”), Lithuanian žam?bas, Old Church Slavonic ???? (z?b?, “tooth”), Russian ??? (zub, “tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/, IPA^(key): [k?am]

Noun

kam c

1. a comb for grooming hair
2. a comb, a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles
3. a crest, summit of a hill or mountain ridge
4. a crest, ridge of a wave
5. a cam, a part of an engine

Declension

Derived terms

• bergskam (mountain ridge)
• vågkam (wave ridge)

Related terms

• kamma

References

Anagrams

• mak

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English come

Noun

kam

1. come

Yogad

Pronoun

kam

1. you (plural)

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• kom

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cam/

Pronoun

kam

1. who

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: käm?, IPA^(key): /k?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Noun

kama (plural kama or kamas)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

See also

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit ??? (k??ma).

Noun

kama (uncountable)

1. (India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan Chapter XII: K?ma, The Third End of Man, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary (editors), Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume 2, page 258,

     The place of k?ma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, Indian Erotology, article in Alan Soble (editor), Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493,

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and k?ma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

Derived terms

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

See also

• preman

Anagrams

• maka

Acehnese

Noun

kama

1. room (part of a building)

References

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

Bikol Central

Etymology

From Spanish cama (“bed”).

Noun

kama

1. bed

Chichewa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese cama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.má/

Noun

kamá 9 (plural makamá 6)

1. bed

Synonyms

• bedi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Verb

-kama (infinitive kukáma)

1. to milk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Adverb

kama

1. (dialect, Moravia) which way, which direction

Synonyms

• (standard Czech) kudy

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. finely milled flour mixture (Estonian/Finnish food, talkkuna in Finnish)
2. kama

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

Etymology

Unknown; possibly related to dialectal kamahtaa ("to thump, to thud").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m?/, [?k?m?]
• Rhymes: -?m?
• Syllabification: ka?ma

Noun

kama

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) stuff (miscellaneous items or objects; personal effects)

2. (slang, singular only) product (illegal drugs)

Declension

Synonyms

• (stuff): tavara, roju

Compounds

• arvokama
• lällärikama
• pintakama

Garo

Verb

kama

1. (transitive) to burn

Related terms

• soa (intransitive)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (k?ma, “love”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káHmas (“desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?-mo-s, from *keh?- (“to desire, wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

kama

1. love, especially sexual love or sensuality.
2. personification of love or desire as deity.

Related terms

Further reading

• “kama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Jamamadí

Verb

kama

1. (Banawá) to come

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

kama

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese cama.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Kavalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien ?? (kam-á, “tangerine”).

Noun

kama

1. orange; tangerine

Lele (Chad)

Noun

k?m?

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]: […] Lele k?m? [Gowers], […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ?ISBN, page 38

Maranao

Etymology 1

Noun

kama

1. breastplate

Etymology 2

From Spanish cama (“bed”)

Noun

kama

1. bed, cot

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kãma/

Noun

kama

1. breast

Ontong Java

Noun

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese cama and Spanish cama and Kabuverdianu kama.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-káma (infinitive gukáma, perfective -kámye)

1. to milk

Derived terms

• umukamyi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. kama

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. a kind of dagger

Declension

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit ??? (k??ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâ?ma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

Declension

References

• “kama” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-kámá (infinitive kukámá)

1. to milk

Swahili

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (kam?).

Conjunction

kama

1. as

   Synonym: mithili

2. if

   Synonym: ikiwa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Conjugation

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish cama (“bed”), from Late Latin, probably of Celtic or Iberian origin. Compare also camba.

Noun

kama

1. bed

   Synonyms: higaan, katre

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kama).

Noun

kama (definite accusative kamay?, plural kamalar)

1. wedge
2. dagger

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-kama^?

1. to brush hair

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.