different between xem vs fem

English

Pronoun

xem

1. (nonstandard) Object-case of xe.
   • 1997, Jared Blackburn, in bit.listserv.autism [1]

     Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."

Anagrams

• MEX, Mex, Mex., mex

Mapudungun

Adjective

xem (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. adult

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?m/

Noun

xem f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. grief, sorrow, distress, worry, concern

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “xem”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Timote

Numeral

xem

1. two

Alternative forms

• xen

Further reading

• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), page 128 (notes that this form, and xen, is used in both Timote and Cuica)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (“to practise divination”, SV: chiêm).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

xem • (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ????)

1. to see; to look at; to watch; to read
2. to examine; to consider; to evaluate; to read (palm, future, etc.)

Derived terms

See also

• coi
• th?y

English

Etymology

Clipping of feminine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

fem (plural fems)

1. (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme

   Antonym: butch

   • 2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge (?ISBN)

     Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.

2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
   • 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:

     "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."

   • 2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge (?ISBN):

     [...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...

Adjective

fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)

1. (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.

   Antonym: masc

2. (LGBT) Synonym of femme

   Antonym: butch

   • 2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang (?ISBN), page 79:

     Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]

Anagrams

• EFM, EMF, MEF, emf

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin fimum.

Noun

fem m (plural fems)

1. dung
2. (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)

Related terms

• femar
• femta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fem

1. first-person plural present indicative form of fer
2. first-person plural present subjunctive form of fer
3. first-person plural imperative form of fer

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e (“five”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?m?]

Numeral

fem

1. five

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.

Numeral

fem

1. five

French

Etymology

English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/

Noun

fem f (plural fems)

1. a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)
   • 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:

     Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c'est une gouine qui n'a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n'est pas un passe-droit pour d'intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/

Numeral

fem

1. five

Derived terms

Related terms

• femte

References

• “fem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”)

Numeral

fem

1. five

Derived terms

• femdel
• femkamp
• femkant
• tjuefem

Related terms

• femte

References

• “fem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) fim
• (Puter, Vallader) füm

Etymology

From Latin f?mus.

Noun

fem m

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?m/

Numeral

fem

1. five

Coordinate terms

Related terms

See also

• noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv

References

• fem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fermentation.

Noun

fem (nominative plural fems)

1. fermentation

Declension