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1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cèmuhî.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cèmuhî terms

• (without æ-raising) IPA^(key): /ˈkæm/, [ˈkʰæm]

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• (æ-raising)
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkeə̯m/, [ˈkʰeə̯m]; /ˈkɛə̯m/, [ˈkʰɛə̯m]
• Rhymes: -æm
• Hyphenation: cam

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb.

cam (plural cams)

2. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
   1. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
   • 1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:

     Cum doun t' cam' soid

4. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

• → Welsh: cam

• cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Spring-loaded camming device on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Clipping of camera.

cam (plural cams)

2. (informal) Camera.
4. (piracy) A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

1. To go on webcam with someone.

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

1. Alternative form of kam.

• “cam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• slick cam

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac-, Mac., mac

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)sam (“hair”).

• (Myanmar) /cʰam˧/
• (Luxi) [tsʰam³⁵]

cam

1. hair on the head

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[3], Payap University, page 15

cam

1. to eat, to consume

cam

1. food

• Blackings, Mairi John (2009), Acholi English – English Acholi Dictionary‎^[4], Munich: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 22

A truncation of camërdhok.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sam]

f=came

cam (feminine came)

1. (regional) young, new

   Synonym: ri

• Cami, proper name

• camërr

Inherited from Romani kham, from Prakrit 𑀖𑀫𑁆𑀫 (ghamma), from Sanskrit घ॒र्म (gharmá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰarmás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- + *-mós.

cam m (plural cames)

1. (astronomy) sun

   Synonym: ocán

• “cam” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 26.
• Francisco Quindalé (1867), “cam”, in Diccionario gitano‎^[5] (in Spanish), Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio
• “cam” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

From English cam, clipping of camera.

cam

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) camera, especially for filming, computing or surveillance purposes (Classifier: 部 c; 支 c; 隻／只 c; 個／个 c)

cam

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to monitor or surveil with a camera

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

• IPA^(key): /kam/

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cam f (plural cams)

1. (cinematography) cam (device for filming)

cam m (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

• CAm (contre-amiral)

• AMC

cam m (plural cans, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of can

• “cam”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Malay cam, from Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/ [ˈt͡ʃam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: cam

cam

1. (only with a negative) to be interested; to be taken by

• “cam”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old Irish camm. The sense “bent, gay” is a semantic loan from English bent.

• (Waterford, Cork) IPA^(key): /kaumˠ/^[1][2]
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /koumˠ/^[3]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /kɑːmˠ/^[4]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kamˠ/^[5][6]

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

1. crooked
2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)

   Synonym: lúbtha

• caime f (“crookedness”)
• camchosach (“bandy-legged”, adjective)
• cam-mhuin f (“wryneck”)

• camán m (“shinty stick”)
• camóg f (“crook”)

• → Yola: caam

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cam”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).

• (Standard Literary, Standard Southern Peninsula) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/ [ˈt͡ʃam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: cam

cam (Jawi spelling چم)

1. to recognise by sight; to identify; to remember what has been seen

   Synonym: kenal pasti

• > Indonesian: cam (inherited)

Clipping of macam.^[1]

1. (colloquial) apheretic form of macam

• "cam" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Old Irish camm.

cam (plural cammey)

1. crooked
2. deformed
3. deceitful
4. knotty (of wood)

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

• IPA^(key): /kam/

From Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

cam m (plural cameu)

1. step, pace

• ar y gam (“at walking pace”)

• Welsh: cam

From Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

cam (equative camhet)

1. bent
2. wrong
3. (nominalized, masculine) wrong, injury

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cam.

• Welsh: cam
  • → English: kam

Related to Persian جام (jâm).

cam f

1. glass

• IPA^(key): /kɑm/

cam (Late Kentish)

1. (hapax legomenon) alternative spelling of cwōm

• See cuman for notes about this form.

cam

1. alternative spelling of camm

Inherited from Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

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cam

1. approximately, a little
2. rather

   Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.

   This lake is rather dirty.

• ca

cam

1. past of come

From Old Irish camm.

• IPA^(key): /kʰaum/^[1][2], [kʰãũm~kʰæ̃ũm]^[3]
• (South Argyll) IPA^(key): /kʰɛm/^[2]

cam

1. crooked, askew
2. one-eyed
3. wry, deceitful, tricky

cam

1. food

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[6], 2005

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kaːm˦]

(Classifiers: mạy or mác) cam

1. orange

   bủi mác cam ― slices of orange

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Calque or borrowing from Vietnamese?”)

cam

1. a vague kind of mouth ache, typically found in children

   Đếch nọi pền cam.

   The children got mouthaches.

   cam cưa, cam nồm ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

cam

1. (topicalizer) as for ..., it is/does/will ...

   Synonym: te̱

   Cần cam lai cần cam nọi.

   Some people have too much, some people have too little.

• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[7][8] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[9] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[10] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جام (cam), from Classical Persian جَام (jām).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒam/

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cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

1. glass

   Synonym: sırça

2. (informal) window

   Synonym: pencere

   Camı açabilir miyiz? ― Can we open the window?

3. (archaic) cup

   Synonym: kadeh

cam

1. glass, glassen, made of glass

• “cam”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “cam”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “cam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 745

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”).

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

1. orange, such as Citrus × sinensis or Citrus aurantium (bitter orange)
2. short for cam sành (“Citrus reticulata × sinensis, tangor”)

cam

1. made of oranges
2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

cam

1. short for camera

Sino-Vietnamese word from 甘 (“sweet”).

cam

1. (chiefly in compounds) to be content with
2. (only in compounds) to pledge, to guarantee

cam

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 甘

• IPA^(key): /kam/
• Rhymes: -am

From Middle Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

cam m (plural camau)

1. step, pace, footstep

   Synonyms: camre, pas

2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint

   Synonym: ôl troed

4. step (of a process), stage, phase

   Synonyms: gradd, adeg, pwynt, cyfnod

From Middle Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

1. bent, crooked, distorted

   Synonym: gŵyr

2. wrong, false, incorrect

   Gweithio yn gam ― To do incorrectly

4. wrong, unjust
5. one-eyed, squint-eyed

• → English: kam

cam m (plural camau)

2. wrong, misdeed

   Synonyms: camwedd, pechod

Borrowed from English cam.

cam m (plural camau)

1. (mechanics) cam (a turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it)

cam

1. alternative form of caame
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 5:

     Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,

     Old Father Devereux early came there,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[11], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

From Proto-Tai *c.raːmᴬ (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ถาม (tǎam), Northern Thai ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ຖາມ (thām), Lü ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam), Shan ထၢမ် (thǎam), Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (thaṃ), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thüm), Saek ถ่าม.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕaːm˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cam¹
• Hyphenation: cam

cam (Sawndip forms 𰇼 or 𭆻 or 𭈧 or 𠮿 or 仨 or 𮞁, 1957–1982 spelling cam)

1. to ask (to request an answer)
2. to inquire; to ask
3. to ask for instructions