different between sham vs cham

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Probably a dialectal form of shame.

Adjective

sham

1. Intended to deceive; false.

2. counterfeit; unreal
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides

     They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians.

Synonyms

• mock
• See also Thesaurus:fake

Antonyms

• genuine
• sincere
• real

Derived terms

• shammish

Translations

Noun

sham (countable and uncountable, plural shams)

1. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.

2. Trickery, hoaxing.

3. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
4. A decorative cover for a pillow.

Derived terms

• shamateur

Translations

See also

• pillow sham

Verb

sham (third-person singular simple present shams, present participle shamming, simple past and past participle shammed)

1. To deceive, cheat, lie.
2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

sham (uncountable)

1. (slang) Champagne.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of William Makepeace Thackeray to this entry?)

     So I orders a bottle, as if for myself; and, 'Ma'am,' says I, 'will you take a glass of Sham — just one?'

Further reading

• sham in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sham in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sham at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• AMHS, HMAS, HSAM, Hams, MASH, MHAs, MSHA, Mahs, Mash, SAHM, Sahm, hams, mash

Karakalpak

Etymology

From Arabic ????

Noun

sham

1. candle

Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic ????

Noun

sham (plural shamlar)

1. candle

English

Etymology 1

From French cham, from Turkish han (“lord, prince”) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæm/

Noun

cham (plural chams)

1. Archaic spelling of khan.
2. An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.

Etymology 2

See chap.

Verb

cham (third-person singular simple present chams, present participle chamming, simple past and past participle chammed)

1. (obsolete) To chew.
   • 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

     But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]

Etymology 3

From ch- +? am, from ich + am.

Contraction

cham

1. (West Country, obsolete) I am

Synonyms

• I'm

References

• Holloway, William (1840) A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, London: John Russell Smith, page 27

Anagrams

• ACMH, HAMC, HMAC, Mach, Mach., mach.

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French charme.

Noun

cham

1. potion

French

Etymology 1

From Vietnamese Ch?m, from Eastern Cham Cam.

Adjective

cham (feminine singular chame, masculine plural chams, feminine plural chames)

1. Cham

Etymology 2

From Turkish han (“khan”).

Noun

cham m (plural chams)

1. khan

Further reading

• “cham” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [xaum?]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): [x??m?]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [xam?]

Adjective

cham

1. Lenited form of cam.

Macanese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin pl?num (“level ground”)

Noun

cham (plural cham-cham)

1. soil
2. ground

Middle English

Etymology

See ch-.

Verb

cham

1. I am

Old Irish

Adjective

cham

1. Alternative spelling of chamm: lenited form of cam.

Polish

Etymology

From Cham, from Hebrew ???? (??m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xam/

Noun

cham m pers (feminine chamka)

1. (derogatory) an arrogant, ill-mannered person

   Synonyms: prostak, prymityw

2. (archaic) peasant, countryman, person of low birth

   Synonym: wie?niak

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) chamie?, schamie?, odchami? si?, odchamia? si?
• (nouns) chamu?, chamid?o, chamisko, chamica, chamstwo, chamsko??
• (adjectives) chamski, chamowaty
• (adverb) chamsko

Further reading

• cham in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cham in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

cham m (plural chans)

1. Obsolete spelling of chão

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

cham

1. Lenited form of cam.

Mutation

Tzotzil

Verb

cham

1. (intransitive) to die

   Synonyms: ch?ay, ch?ay ik?, laj, olan

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.