nam

Abbreviation of English Ngan'gityemerri.

nam

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ngan'gityemerri.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ngan'gityemerri terms

• IPA^(key): /næm/
• Rhymes: -æm

nam

1. simple past of nim

Acehnese numbers ^(edit)

	60
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Cardinal: nam     Ordinal: keunam

From Proto-Chamic *nam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

• IPA^(key): /nam/

nam

1. six

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*enem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Tropative transitive derivative from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mnam (“to have a smell”). See also the related nvm, which reflects the original intransitive verb.

• (Myanmar) /nam˧/
• (Lianghe) [naŋ³¹]
• (Longchuan) [nam³¹]
• (Luxi) [nam⁵¹]
• (Xiandao) [nam³¹]

nam

1. to smell, sniff something (with one's nose)
   • 2010, “Psalm 115:6”, in Ngochang Common Language Bible‎^[1], Yangon: Bible Society of Myanmar:

     No dap laus eq ma xauhgyo, nho dap laus eq ma yoh nam.

     [The idols have] ears stuck [to them] but do not hear; [the idols have] noses stuck [to them] but cannot smell.

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 85

nam

1. moon

Borrowed from Persian نام (nâm)

nam

1. name, appellation, title

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002), Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[3], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “nam”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Old Danish nam, from Old Norse nám.

nam n (singular definite namet, not used in plural form)

1. (archaic) the act of seizing, taking

• landnam

• nemme

• “nam” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑm
• IPA^(key): [nɑm]

nam

1. singular past indicative of nemen

• Man, man

Eastern Cham cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : nam, nem

• nem / ꨘꨮꩌ
• ꨘꩌ

From Proto-Chamic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

• IPA^(key): /nʌm/

nam

1. six

Perhaps onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑm/, [ˈnɑ̝m]
• Rhymes: -ɑm
• Syllabification^(key): nam
• Hyphenation^(key): nam

nam

1. yum

• “nam”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

nam

1. romanization of 𐌽𐌰𐌼

Borrowed from Latin nam.

nam

1. for, since, because, seeing that

From Malay nam, shortened form of enam, from Proto-Malayic *ənəm, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *ənəm, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *ənəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

nam

1. (colloquial) six

nam

1. for

From Proto-Italic *nām, a feminine accusative singular.^[1] There are multiple proposals for the root:

• Possibly from a distal deictic Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-os (“that”)^[1] (see *h₂en), which may also be the source of the particle an.^[2][3]
• Alternatively, from a distal deictic of the form Proto-Indo-European *h₁enos (“that”).
• Alternatively, from an inflected variant of a particle *ne (“like”).^[1]

Compare enim, nē (“truly, indeed”), Ancient Greek νή (nḗ), possibly -ne.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnam]

nam

1. for
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Tobiae 2:15:

     Nam sicut beato Iob insultabant reges ita isti parentes et cognati eius et inridebant vitam eius.

     For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life.

2. since
3. thus
4. because
5. actually

• nempe
• utinam
• namque

• cur
• quia

• “nam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nam", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “nam”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): [nam]

nam

1. dative of my

• IPA^(key): /nam/
• Rhymes: -am

nam (Jawi spelling نم)

1. short for enam

nam

1. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of nēmen

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈnam/

nam m

1. alternative form of name

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈnam/

nam

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of nëmen

Musi cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : nam

nam

1. six

• naam

Inherited from Assamese নাম (nam), from Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

nam

1. name

nam

1. house, home

nam

1. us

nam

1. meat

• nam-nam, nam nam

nam

1. yum, or yum yum

• “nam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• nam-nam, nam nam

nam

1. yum, or yum yum

• “nam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

nam

1. house, home

• P. T. Abraham (2005), A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[5], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

• nom, nōm

• IPA^(key): /nɑm/

nam

1. first/third-person preterite of niman

nam

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of nëman

nam

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of nema

• IPA^(key): /nam/

nam

1. come on
2. come along with me
   • 1580, Carita Parahyangan, section III:

     Carék Sang Mangukuhan, "Nam adiing kalih, urang ngaboro leumpang ka tegal."

     Said Sang Mangukuhan, "Come, my little brothers, let us go hunting in the fields"

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *namъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnam/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: nam

nam

1. dative of my

nam (not comparable)

1. obsolete spelling of não

Cognate with Bengali নাম (nam).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

nam

1. name

nam

1. water

• Ernesto C. Migliazza, Maku, Sapé and Uruak languages: Current status and basic lexicon (1978), in Anthropological Linguistics 20 (also cited in Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nam (with the conditional)

1. Form of nan used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

Univerbation of an (“in”) +‎ mo (“my”).

nam (+ dative, triggers lenition)

1. in my

   Bha mi nam chadal. - I was sleeping (literally I was in my sleep).

Univerbation of an (“in”) +‎ am (“their”).

nam (+ dative, triggers eclipsis of a vowel)

1. Form of nan used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nam

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. genitive plural before f-
   2. genitive plural before b-, m-, p-

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *namъ.

nam ? (Cyrillic spelling нам)

1. to us (clitic dative plural of jȃ (“I”))

   Možemo i bolje! Nema nam granica!

   We can do better! We have no limits!

   (literally, “We can even better! There are no limits to us.”)

2. (emphatic, possessive, dative) our, of ours (clitic dative plural of jȃ (“I”))

   Gdje nam je auto?

   Where is our car?

nam

1. romanization of 𒉆 (nam)

nam

1. past indicative of nimma

• man

Cognate with Persian نرم (narm).

nam

1. soft

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

nam (Nôm form 南)

1. south

nam

1. male

From Proto-Tai *ʰnaːmᴬ (“thorn”). Cognate with Thai หนาม (nǎam), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨶᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ໜາມ (nām), Lü ᦐᦱᧄ (ṅaam), Shan ၼၢမ် (nǎam), Tai Dam ꪘꪱꪣ, Tai Nüa ᥘᥣᥛᥴ (láam) or ᥢᥣᥛᥴ (náam), Zhuang nam, Nong Zhuang nam.

nam (Nôm form 楠)

1. thorn, spine

   nam chộc ― pierced by a thorn

   點㓜百樅楠

   Tiểm au pác doòng nam

   Take a hundred thorns from the point.

• Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006), Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[6][7] (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]‎^[8] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

From Ottoman Turkish نام (nam), from Persian نام (nâm). Compare Sanskrit नामन् (nāman), Latin nomen, French nom , English name, German Name, Armenian անուն (anun).

• IPA^(key): /nɑm/

nam (definite accusative namı, plural namlar)

1. reputation
2. name

• nam-ı diğer (“also known as”)
• namlı (“famous”)

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

• Audio (Saigon):

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 南 (“south”). Compare also nôm/Nôm and nồm (as in gió nồm (“south(east) wind”)).

• (South Central Vietnam) nôm

nam

1. south

compass points:  ^[edit]

tây bắc (西北)	bắc (北)	đông bắc (東北)
tây (西)		đông (東)
tây nam (西南)	nam (南)	đông nam (東南)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 男.

nam

1. (collective) boys and men

   Antonym: nữ

nam

1. (of people) male

   Coordinate terms: nữ, gái

   Near-synonyms: trai, đực (of non-human and non-bird animals), trống (of birds and fish)

nam

1. male; -o

   nam thanh niên ― a young man

• As a prefix, not as frequently used as nữ (“female”).

• man

Borrowed from Latin manus (“hand”).

• IPA^(key): /nam/

nam (genitive nama, plural nams)

1. hand

• namakev

• IPA^(key): /nam/

nam m (plural namau, not mutable)

1. flaw, defect

   Synonyms: diffyg, ffaeledd, bai

2. sin, moral failing

   Synonyms: cam, anaf, niwed

• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “defect”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[9], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “flaw”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎^[10], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “nam”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “nam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies