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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).

Noun

ram (plural rams)

1. A male sheep, typically uncastrated
2. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
3. A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
4. A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
5. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
6. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rammen, from the noun (see above). Compare Old High German rammen.

Verb

ram (third-person singular simple present rams, present participle ramming, simple past and past participle rammed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

   The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.

   Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman’s bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.

2. (transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

   After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.

   To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.

3. (transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

   Rammed earth walls

4. (slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.
   • 1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica

     like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on sheep
• ewe
• hog
• shearling
• teg
• wether

Etymology 3

Likely from Old Norse ramr, rammr (“strong, rank, bitter”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong, overbearing; acrid, rank”), perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above. Compare Scots ram (“a rank odour”). Compare also Middle English rammish (“rank, offensive in smell”).

Adjective

ram (comparative more ram, superlative most ram)

1. (Northern England) Rancid, offensive in smell or taste.

Anagrams

• -mar-, AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MAR, MRA, Mar, Mar., RMA, arm, mar, mar-

Catalan

Etymology

Latin r?mus

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. bouquet, bunch
2. (architecture) flight of stairs
3. (figuratively) branch (area in business or of knowledge, research)

Derived terms

• ramegall
• ramejar
• ramell

Further reading

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/
• Hyphenation: ram
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), from Old Dutch *ram, of West-Germanic origin, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate to English ram (“a male sheep”).

Noun

ram m (plural rammen, diminutive rammetje n, feminine ooi)

1. ram (male sheep)
2. male rabbit
3. battering ram

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ram

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

Anagrams

• arm

Elfdalian

Adjective

ram

1. hoarse

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin r?mus.

Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. branch

Related terms

• rame

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *arame(n), from Late Latin aer?men, from Latin aes (“copper”). Compare Italian rame.

Noun

ram m

1. copper

Gerka

Alternative forms

• ?am

Etymology

Related to Ngas am (“water”).

Noun

ram

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]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *h?m) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: Gerka ram [?am, ref. < *ham] [Ftp. 1911, 221] = ?àm "Wasser" [Jng. 1965, 174], […]

Haruai

Noun

ram

1. house

Further reading

• Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, Languages in Contact (2000, ?ISBN), page 84: "Examples of basic vocabulary items that are shared by Haruai and Kobon but not by Hagahai (on the basis of the lists in Davies and Comrie (1984)) include, for instance: Haruai ram, Kobon ram 'house';"

Kobon

Noun

ram

1. house

Further reading

• Bernard Comrie, Switch Reference in Huichol, in Switch-reference and Universal Grammar, edited by John Haiman, Pamela Munro, page 29 (in notes):

  hol b? kaj pak-ul ram ud ar-bul

  we-two man pig strike SS-1DU house take go I-1DU

  'we two killed a pig and took it home'

• Dicky Gilbers, John A. Nerbonne, J. Schaeken, Languages in Contact (2000, ?ISBN), page 84: "Examples of basic vocabulary items that are shared by Haruai and Kobon but not by Hagahai (on the basis of the lists in Davies and Comrie (1984)) include, for instance: Haruai ram, Kobon ram 'house';"

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian rame (“copper”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ram m

1. copper

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rame, ramme, rom, rem

Etymology

From Old English ramm, from Proto-Germanic *rammaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ram/, /ra?m/, /r?m/

Noun

ram (plural rams)

1. male sheep, ram
2. (astrology) Aries
3. pile driver, battering ram

Descendants

• English: ram
• Scots: ram

References

• “ram, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

ram

1. imperative of ramme

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin r?mus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French raim.

Noun

ram m (oblique plural rams, nominative singular rams, nominative plural ram)

1. branch (of a tree, etc.)

Related terms

• ramel

Descendants

• Catalan: ram
• Occitan: ram

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “r?mus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 100, page 39

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin r?mus, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds (“root”).

Noun

ram n (plural ramuri)

1. (rare) branch, bough

Synonyms

• creang?
• ramur?

Related terms

• d?râma
• ramur?
• r?muros

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin r?mus.

Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. (Puter) branch (of tree, river, etc.)
2. (Puter, education) subject

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) rom

Synonyms

• (branch): (Puter) manzina

Etymology 2

Germanic borrowing, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ram? (“frame”).

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Noun

ram m (plural rams)

1. (Puter) frame, framework

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) rom
• (Sursilvan) rama

Etymology 3

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

Noun

ram f (plural rams)

1. (Puter) knot, gnarl

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) rom

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ramr, from Proto-Germanic *ram? (“frame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??m/

Noun

ram c

1. frame (e.g. around a painting)
2. frame, boundaries (the set of options for actions given)
3. frame (a context for understanding)
4. paw (of a bear)
5. bicycle frame

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: raami

Anagrams

• arm, mar

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English rum.

Noun

ram

1. rum

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [za?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a?m??]

Noun

ram

1. (Central Vietnam) spring roll

Synonyms

• nem

Acehnese

Numeral

nam

1. six

Catacao

Noun

nam

1. moon

Crimean Tatar

Noun

nam

1. name, appellation, title

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m
• IPA^(key): [n?m]

Verb

nam

1. singular past indicative of nemen

Anagrams

• Man, man

Finnish

Interjection

nam

1. yum

Gothic

Romanization

nam

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

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nam.

Conjunction

nam

1. for, since, because, seeing that

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay nam, shortened form of enam, from Proto-Malayic *?n?m, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *?n?m, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *?n?m, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?n?m, from Proto-Austronesian *?n?m.

Numeral

nam

1. (colloquial) six

Interlingua

Conjunction

nam

1. for

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nam/

Postposition

nam

1. near

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?enos (“that”), the same source of enim, n? (“truly, indeed”), Ancient Greek ?? (n?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nam/, [nä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nam/, [n?m]

Conjunction

nam

1. for
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 2:15

     Nam sicut beato Iob insultabant reges ita isti parentes et cognati eius et inridebant vitam eius.

     For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life.

2. since
3. thus
4. because
5. actually

Derived terms

• nempe
• utinam
• namque

References

• nam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nam]

Pronoun

nam

1. dative of my

Malay

Alternative forms

• enam
• ?nam
• anam
• ?nam
• ????
• ???

Etymology

Shortened form of enam, from Proto-Malayic *?n?m, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *?n?m, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *?n?m, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?n?m, from Proto-Austronesian *?n?m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nam/
• Rhymes: -nam, -am

Numeral

nam (Jawi spelling ??)

1. Alternative form of enam

Middle Dutch

Verb

nam

1. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of n?men

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• name

Noun

nam m

1. name
2. (grammar) noun
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln. Normalised spellings: 1867, Karl Julis Schröer, Die Dichtungen Heinrichs von Mügeln (Mogelîn) nach den Handschriften besprochen, Wien, p. 476:

     Nam, vornam, wort, darnâch

     zûwort, teilfanc, zûfûg ich sach,

     vorsatz, înworf under irem dach

     gemunzet und geformet stân.

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

nam

1. us

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nam-nam, nam nam

Interjection

nam

1. yum, or yum yum

References

• “nam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nam-nam, nam nam

Interjection

nam

1. yum, or yum yum

References

• “nam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Nyishi

Noun

nam

1. house, home

References

• P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language?^[3], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?m/

Verb

nam

1. first/third-person preterite of niman

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nam/

Pronoun

nam

1. dative of my

Portuguese

Adverb

nam (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of não

Rohingya

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali ??? (nam).

Noun

nam

1. name

Sapé

Noun

nam

1. water

References

• Ernesto C. Migliazza, Maku, Sapé and Uruak languages: Current status and basic lexicon (1978), in Anthropological Linguistics 20 (also cited in Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Conjunction

nam

1. Form of of nan used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

Etymology 2

Univerbation of an (“in”) +? mo (“my”).

Preposition

nam (+ dative, triggers lenition)

1. in my

   Bha mi nam chadal. - I was sleeping (literally I was in my sleep).

Inflection

Etymology 3

Univerbation of an (“in”) +? am (“their”).

Preposition

nam (+ dative, triggers eclipsis)

1. Form of of nan used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

Inflection

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Article

nam

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. genitive plural before f-
   2. genitive plural before b-, m-, p-

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

nam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. to us (clitic dative plural of j? (“I”))

2. (emphatic, possessive, dative) our, of ours (clitic dative plural of j? (“I”))

Declension

Swedish

Verb

nam

1. past tense of nimma.

Anagrams

• man

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ???? (nâm).

Noun

nam (definite accusative nam?, plural namlar)

1. name
2. reputation

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [na?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [na?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [na?m??]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“south”). Compare also nôm/Nôm and n?m (as in gió n?m (“south(east) wind”)).

Alternative forms

• nôm

Noun

nam

1. south

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Noun

nam

1. (collective) boys and men

   Antonym: n?

Adjective

nam

1. (of people) male

   Synonym: trai

   Antonym: n?, gái

Prefix

nam

1. male; -o

Usage notes

• As a prefix, not as frequently used as n? (“female”).

Derived terms

See also

• d??ng
• ??c
• tr?ng

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nam/

Noun

nam (nominative plural nams)

1. hand

Declension

Derived terms

• namakev