lam

lam

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

• IPA^(key): /læm/

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• Rhymes: -æm

From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

• lamm

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

1. (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
   • 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,

     An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter:

     They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]

2. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
   • 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4:

     [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     […] and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.

lam (plural lams)

1. (slang) flight, escape

   on the lam

• lambaste
• lam into
• lam out
• on the lam
• take it on the lam

From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).

lam (plural lams)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

• Eric Partridge (2005) “lam”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1180.

• lam chau

• ALM, AML, M.L.A., MLA, Mal, Mal., alm, mal, mal-

From Dutch lam.

• IPA^(key): /lam/

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lam (plural lammers)

1. lamb

From Old Norse lami, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

• IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

lam

1. lame

• lam i roen

From Old Norse lamb.

• IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

lam n (singular definite lammet, plural indefinite lam)

1. lamb

• påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

• IPA^(key): /lɑm/

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• Hyphenation: lam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb.

lam n (plural lammeren, diminutive lammetje n)

1. lamb, the young of a sheep
2. (metonymically) The meat - or fleece/wool produce of a lamb; a dish prepared from lamb's meat
3. (figuratively) A gentle person, especially an innocent child

• Negerhollands: lam, lamtje
• → Papiamentu: lamchi, lammetsje

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

lam (comparative lammer, superlative lamst)

1. lame, unable to move, paralyzed
2. (informal) very drunk

• Negerhollands: lam
• → Caribbean Javanese: lam
• → Papiamentu: lam

• mal

From Arabic لَام (lām).

• IPA^(key): /lám/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [láŋ]

lam f

1. lam (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

lam

1. way

• Binoy Debbarma, Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary (2001)

lam

1. frilled-neck lizard

• Mark Harvey, A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia (2001)

From Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

lam n

1. lamb

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• lamp

• Dutch: lam
• Limburgish: lamb

From Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

lam

1. lame
2. weak, strengthless

• lāem

• Dutch: lam
• Limburgish: laam

• “lam”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lamb”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lam (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lam (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

• IPA^(key): /ˈlam/

lam

1. lagoon

From Old Norse lami.

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

1. paralysed / paralyzed, crippled

• lamme (verb)

From Old Norse lamb.

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma or lammene)

1. a lamb (young sheep)

• lammekjøtt
• påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

lam

1. imperative of lamme

• “lam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse lami.

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

1. paralysed; crippled

From Old Norse lamb.

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma)

1. a lamb (young sheep)
2. (by extension, Christianity, figurative) Christ as sacrificial lamb

• lammekjøt, lammekjøtt
• påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lam

1. imperative of lamma (to lamb)
2. imperative of lamma (to paralyze)

• “lam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *laimą.

• IPA^(key): /lɑːm/

lām n

1. clay, loam

• English: loam

From Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz, whence also Old English lama, Old Norse lami.

lam

1. lame

• Middle High German: lam
  • Alemannic German: lamm
  • German: lahm
  • Hunsrik: laam

• IPA^(key): /lam/

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: lam

lam f

1. genitive plural of lama

• IPA^(key): [lam]

lam

1. first-person singular/plural imperfect indicative of la

From Old Swedish lamber, from Old Norse lami, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

lam (comparative lamare, superlative lamast)

1. lame, unable to move any limbs
2. (slang) lame, inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so

   Det var ett lamt försök. Gör ditt bästa istället!

   That was a lame attempt. Do your best instead!

• förlamad
• lamslagen

• LMA, alm, mal

From English lamp.

lam

1. lamp

From Arabic لَام (lām).

lam

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ل

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 藍, from Literary Chinese 藍 (lán), using the same disambiguation of 青 (“grue”) with 藍／蓝 (lán, “blue”) and 綠／绿 (lục, “green”). See also xanh (“grue”).

lam

1. (uncommon) blue

   Synonym: xanh dương

• The word is not used very often. The most common use of it is to refer to one of the seven colors of a rainbow, as in the listing "đỏ, cam, vàng, lục, lam, chàm, tím".

lam • (𥜓)

1. (architecture) louvers, blinds, shutters

   Synonym: cửa chớp

Borrowed from German Arm and English arm.

lam (nominative plural lams)

1. arm
2. blade
3. sharp blade

lam

1. Soft mutation of llam.

lam

1. sun