kamp

Spelling variant of camp (“homosexual”).

• IPA^(key): /kæmp/
  • (General American, Canada, /æ/ raising) IPA^(key): [kʰɛəmp] ~ [kʰeəmp]

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• Rhymes: -æmp

kamp (not comparable)

1. (Australia, of males) homosexual
2. (New Zealand, historical) lesbian (in Maori communities)
   • 1990, Julia Penelope, Sarah Valentine, Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World, page 74:

     Finally we found the Western Park, a scungy unpopular pub then, which agreed to allow kamp girls to drink there.

   • 1992, Stephan Likosky, Coming Out, page 264:

     It was 1961 and the kamp girls' scene had grown larger. Many Maori had begun moving to the cities, and among them were not only many more Maori drag queens but also Maori kamp girls.

• IPA^(key): /kamp/

From Dutch kamp, from Middle French camp, from Latin campus (“open space; field”).

kamp (plural kampe)

1. camp

From Dutch kampen, from Middle Dutch kempen.

kamp (present kamp, present participle kampende, past participle gekamp)

1. (intransitive) to suffer (from a problem), to deal with

From Middle Low German kamp, from Latin campus.

kamp c (singular definite kampen, plural indefinite kampe)

1. battle, struggle (violent)

   i kampens hede

   in the heat of battle

2. endeavour, struggle (non-violent)

   Vi støtter deres kamp for lige rettigheder.

   We support their struggle for equal rights.

3. game, match (of e.g. ball games)

   De har ikke vundet en kamp siden 2003.

   They haven't won a match since 2003.

• “kamp” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “kamp” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /kɑmp/
• Hyphenation: kamp
• Rhymes: -ɑmp
• Homophone: Kamp

Borrowed from Middle French camp, from Latin campus (“open space; field”).

kamp n (plural kampen, diminutive kampje n)

1. camp
2. a political or social fraction or group

• kampement

• Afrikaans: kamp
• Petjo: kamp
• → Indonesian: kamp
• → Sranan Tongo: kampu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: kampu

From Middle Dutch camp, Old Dutch kamp, derived in turn from Latin campus (“field”). The term was borrowed in Roman times and acquired various connotations in different places.

kamp m (plural kampen, diminutive kampje n)

1. field

- general:

- toponyms:

• Afrikaans: kamp

From Middle Dutch camp, from Latin campus (“open space; battlefield”).

kamp m (plural kampen, diminutive kampje n)

1. battle, fight
2. tournament, competition

In the Netherlands kamp is seldom used as a word to describe a battle, gevecht is more common. However, in Flanders this usage is not uncommon.

kamp

1. inflection of kampen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• Rhymes: -am̥p

kamp

1. indefinite accusative singular of kampur

From Dutch kamp, from Middle French camp, from Latin campus (“open space; field”). Doublet of kampus, kampiun, kampanye, and sampanye.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkamp]
• Hyphenation: kamp

kamp (first-person possessive kampku, second-person possessive kampmu, third-person possessive kampnya)

1. camp, an outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.

   Synonym: barak

• kem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “kamp” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin campus, via Middle Low German kamp.

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kamp m (definite singular kampen, indefinite plural kamper, definite plural kampene)

1. a fight
2. a battle

   en juridisk kamp - a legal battle

3. (sports) a match (boxing match, football match etc.)
4. a broad or round mountaintop
5. a boulder

• “kamp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin campus, via Middle Low German kamp.

kamp m (definite singular kampen, indefinite plural kampar, definite plural kampane)

1. a fight
2. a battle
3. (sports) a match (as above)
4. a broad or round mountaintop
5. a boulder

• “kamp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Audio (Gotland; "en kamp")

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From Low German kempe, from Middle Low German kamp, from Latin campus (“battlefield”).

kamp c

1. a struggling for one's interests (often in opposition); a struggle, (sometimes more idiomatic) a fight

   en jämn och hård kamp mellan två lag

   a close and tough fight between two teams

   riddarens kamp mot draken

   the knight's fight against the dragon

   en väpnad kamp

   an armed struggle

   deras långa kamp för rättvisa

   their long struggle for justice

   Att ta sig upp för den branta backen var en riktig kamp

   Getting up the steep hill was a real struggle

   hennes kamp mot sjukdomen

   her battle (idiomatically) against the disease (strid (“battle”) sounds overly militaristic in Swedish here)

   en kamp mot klockan

   a race against time / a race against the clock ("a struggle/fight against the clock" – idiomatic)

   en maktkamp

   a power struggle

• Often interchangeable with strid, which has more militaristic connotations, similar to how struggle and battle are often interchangeable in English.
• See also the corresponding verb kämpa, which can also be thought of as having the basic meaning struggle, though often unidiomatic as a translation.

• kämpa
• kämpe

Unknown. Likely cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål gamp.

kamp c

1. old horse, nag (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• kamp in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• kamp in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)