different between lamb vs lamby

English

Etymology

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz (compare Dutch lam, German Lamm, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas), from Proto-Indo-European *h?l?h?onb?os (compare Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ?????? (élaphos, “red deer”)), enlargement of *h?elh?én. More at elk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

lamb (plural lambs or (dialectal) lamber or (dialectal) lambren)

1. A young sheep.
2. The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
3. (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
4. A simple, unsophisticated person.
5. (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

Synonyms

• sheepling

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lamb (third-person singular simple present lambs, present participle lambing, simple past and past participle lambed)

1. (intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.

   The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

Translations

Anagrams

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, balm, blam

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lamb n (genitive singular lambs, plural lomb)

1. lamb (both the animal and meat)
2. kid (baby goat)
3. (playing cards, stýrivolt) seven of the chosen cards (trump seven)

Declension

Derived terms

• gimburlamb (female lamb)
• veðurlamb (male lamb)

Gothic

Romanization

lamb

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamp/
• Rhymes: -amp

Noun

lamb n (genitive singular lambs, nominative plural lömb)

1. a lamb

Declension

Derived terms

• launa lambið gráa
• ljúfur sem lamb
• vatna lömbum (compare the Old Norse krjúpa at keldu)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lomb, lombe, loumbe, lambe

Etymology

From Old English lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lam(b)/, /l?m(b)/

Noun

lamb (plural lambes or lamber or lambren)

1. A lamb, its meat, or its skin.
2. A Christian believer.

Descendants

• English: lamb
• Scots: lam, lamb
• Yola: lhawm, lowem

References

• “l??mb, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lamb n (definite singular lambet, definite singular dative lambe, indefinite plural lomb, definite plural lombi, definite plural dative lombom)

1. a lamb (young sheep); form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by lam
2. (by extension, Christianity, figuratively) Christ as sacrificial lamb

Inflection

Derived terms

• lambekjøt
• påskelamb (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• lemb, lomb, lomber

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?mb/

Noun

lamb n (nominative plural lambru)

1. lamb

Declension

West Saxon:

Anglian:

Descendants

• Middle English: lamb, lomb, lambe
  • English: lamb
  • Scots: lam, lamb

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz, whence also Old Saxon lamb, Old English lamb, Old Norse lamb, Gothic ???????????????? (lamb)

Noun

lamb n

1. lamb

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: lamp, lam
  • Cimbrian: lamp
  • German: Lamm
  • Luxembourgish: Lamm
  • Vilamovian: ?amm
  • Yiddish: ????? (lam)

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
2. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lamb n (genitive lambs, plural l?mb)

1. a lamb

Declension

Descendants

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lamb n

1. lamb

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: Lamm

English

Etymology

lamb +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmi

Adjective

lamby (comparative lambier or more lamby, superlative lambiest or most lamby)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a lamb or the meat of a lamb.
   • 1994, Shirley Humphrey, Eric Mussen, Small farm handbook (page 104)

     We try to avoid a lamby or "woolly" flavor.

   • 2002, Jeffrey Steingarten, It Must've Been Something I Ate, unnumbered page,

     Méchoui is like a foretaste of paradise, the tenderest and most delicious meat surrounded by the crispest, lambiest skin imaginable.

   • 2003, David Rosengarten, It's All American Food: The Best Recipes for More than 400 New American Classics, unnumbered page,

     And not just lamb; we're talkin' mutton, old lamb, which has an even deeper, lambier flavor.

   • 2009, Virginia Ironside, The Virginia Monologues: Why Growing Old is Great, unnumbered page,

     When I arrived at the house, crying, 'And how are you, my lambiest lamb?' he'd be about to reply, telling me how exhausted he felt from being up all night winding my grandson, when he discovered that I had zoomed past him to speak to the baby.

Noun

lamby (plural lambies)

1. Alternative form of lambie
   • 2009, Patricia McClaflin, Reflections of a Wyoming Shepherd on the 23rd Psalm, unnumbered page,

     With a big heavy bucket full of bottles of warm milk, she would call out, “Here, lamby, lamby, lamby.”

   • 2011, Betty LeMaster, Princess Flats and Reservations, page 198,

     "It's a lamby, Callie! A little baby lamby."

   • 2012, Andy Holmes, My First Devotional, page 67,

     Now, if you're thinking being a shepherd means sitting around playing a harp and saying things like, “Here, lamby,” you are mistaken.

Anagrams

• balmy