different between zac vs zam

English

Noun

zac (plural zacs)

1. Alternative form of zack
   • 1980, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, Picador 1981, p. 13:

     Coated with black crumbs and custard, the zac streaked out of his mouth like a dum-dum and ricocheted off a tureen.

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 370:

     'You're very fortunate.' 'I worked for it, every zac and deener.'

Anagrams

• Caz

Italian

Interjection

zac

1. rap (sound)

Romanian

Verb

zac

1. first-person singular present indicative of z?cea
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of z?cea
3. third-person plural present indicative of z?cea

English

Interjection

zam

1. shortened form of kazaam
   • 1945, The Author and Journalist (volumes 30-31, page 9)

     Then suddenly — Zam! Zowie! Smash! The Post sends back an article which I was positive it would buy, and which, in fact, it had ordered. One manuscript after another is flung back into my face […]

   • 2007, J. W. Brodie-Innes, The Devil's Mistress (page 21)

     You never know when some enemy of the Free World might worm his or her way into your confidence and then — ZAM! Wipe you out.

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“tame”). Cognate with German zahm, Dutch tam, English tame, Icelandic tamur.

Adjective

zam (Uri)

1. tame, gentle
2. (of weather) mild

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 68.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz. The vowel may be influenced by cognate German zahm. Luxembourgish zam(m) is the expected outcome of the uninflected stem, but one might expect *zuem, *zumm from the inflected forms instead. Also cognate with Dutch tam, English tame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsa?m/
  • Rhymes: -a?m
  • Homophone: Zam

Adjective

zam (masculine zamen, neuter zaamt, comparative méi zam, superlative am zaamsten)

1. tame

Declension

Antonyms

• wëll

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz, whence also Old English tam, Old Norse tamr

Adjective

zam

1. tame

Descendants

• Middle High German: zam
  • Alemannic German: zam
  • German: zahm
  • Hunsrik: zaam
  • Luxembourgish: zam

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?amm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m]

Noun

zam (definite accusative zamm?, plural zamlar)

1. surcharge
2. increase in price

3. salary raise

Declension

Antonyms

• indirim

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “zam”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük