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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæm/

Etymology 1

Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.

Noun

pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)

1. The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
2. A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

Etymology 2

Probably alteration of panorama.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

1. (dated, photography) A panorama.
   • 1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography (volume 28, page 240)

     The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.

Verb

pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)

1. (dated, photography) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.

See also

• pam off

Anagrams

• AMP, APM, MAP, MPA, amp, map, p.m.a., pma

Amanab

Noun

pam

1. bone spoon

Catalan

Etymology

From older palm, from Old Occitan, from Latin palmus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pam m (plural pams)

1. span, handspan

   Holonym: cana

Related terms

• palma

Further reading

• “pam” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “pam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pam!

1. bam! bang!

Galician

Noun

pam m (plural pans)

1. Alternative form of pan

References

https://estraviz.org/pam

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pump.

Noun

pam

1. pump
2. (anatomy) heart

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pam/

Noun

pam (nominative plural pams)

1. palm, palm tree

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

pa (“what”) +? am (“for”)

Alternative forms

• paham (literary)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pam/

Adverb

pam

1. why

English

Etymology

From Middle English pampen, from Middle Low German pampen (“to pamper oneself, live luxuriously”), from Old Saxon *pamp?n, from Proto-Germanic *pamp?n? (“to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *bamb- (“round object”). Cognate with West Frisian pampelje, Dutch pampelen, pamperen (“to cram, pamper”), German pampfen, bamben, Norwegian pampa (“to stuff oneself”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

pamp (third-person singular simple present pamps, present participle pamping, simple past and past participle pamped)

1. (transitive, archaic) To pamper.

Anagrams

• MAPP