bam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bam"

Translingual

Symbol

bam

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Bambara.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

bam

  1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
    The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
  2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
    She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

bam (plural bams)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from bamboozle.

Noun

bam (plural bams)

  1. (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
    • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:
      To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

Verb

bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)

  1. (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
    • 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:
      This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
    • 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
      I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
  2. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

Noun

bam (plural bams)

  1. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.

Pronunciation


Verb

bam

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, neologism) to ban [2006]

Derived terms

  • bam圖bam图

Iban

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bam/

Adjective

bam

  1. greedy

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbam/
  • Rhymes: -bam, -am, -m

Etymology 1

From Malay bam, from Persian بام (bâm, ceiling).[1]

Noun

bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)

  1. (nautical) crosspiece

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

Noun

bam (plural bam-bam, first-person possessive bamku, second-person possessive bammu, third-person possessive bamnya)

  1. bam: boom of a large drum

References

  1. Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

Further reading

Old Frisian

Ēn bām.

Alternative forms

  • baem (Late Old Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (to grow). Cognates include Old English bēam, Old Saxon bōm and Old Dutch bōm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːm/

Noun

bām m

  1. tree
  2. bench
  3. seat

Inflection

Declension of bām (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative bām bāmar, bāma
genitive bāmes bāma
dative bāme bāmum, bāmem
accusative bām bāmar, bāma

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
    Most dialects: buum
    Heligoland: Booam
    Sylt: Boom
  • Saterland Frisian: Boom
  • West Frisian: beam

References

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old Saxon

Noun

bām m

  1. Alternative form of bom

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *baːm (to eat), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaam (to chew). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá̤m, Ngeq baːm.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bam/

Verb

bam

  1. to eat

Polish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bam/
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: bam

Interjection

bam

  1. dong, ding dong (used when imitating a clock or watch)
    Synonyms: bim-bam, bim-bam-bom

Further reading

  • bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

bam

  1. bang

References

  • bam in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Volapük

Noun

bam (nominative plural bams)

  1. bench
  2. seat

Declension

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