bam

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Translingual

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Symbol

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bam

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

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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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.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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bam (plural bams)

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

Etymology 3

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Perhaps from bamboozle.

Noun

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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

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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.

Etymology 4

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Noun

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bam (plural bams)

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

Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology

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Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bam

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

Derived terms

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Iban

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bam

  1. greedy

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

  1. (nautical) crosspiece

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic

Noun

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

  1. bam: boom of a large drum

References

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  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

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Old Frisian

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Ēn bām.

Alternative forms

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  • baem (Late Old Frisian)

Etymology

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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

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Noun

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bām m

  1. tree
  2. bench
  3. seat

Inflection

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

Descendants

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

References

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

Old Saxon

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Noun

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bām m

  1. Alternative form of bom

Pnar

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bam

  1. to eat

Polish

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

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bam

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

Further reading

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  • bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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bam

  1. bang

References

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

Tày

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bam

  1. concave
    Lâ̱ư nà mì lai búng bam.
    The fields have a lot of indented areas.

References

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  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Volapük

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Noun

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bam (nominative plural bams)

  1. bench
  2. seat

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