cam

• IPA^(key): [kæm]

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• Rhymes: -æm

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)

1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
2. 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)

1. (informal) Camera.

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

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵómbʰos

cam

1. food

Inherited from Romani kham, from Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).

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.
• “cam” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, 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 (2014).

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/ [ˈt͡ʃam]

cam

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

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kaumˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /kɑːmˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kamˠ/^[1]

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, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/ [ˈt͡ʃam]

cam (Jawi spelling چم)

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

   Synonym: kenal pasti

• Indonesian: cam

• “cam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, 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)

Related to Persian جام (jâm).

cam f

1. glass

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): /kaːm/, /kʰaum/

cam

1. crooked, askew

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Comparative/superlative: caime

cam

1. food

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[1], 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]‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[4] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[5] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

From Ottoman Turkish جام (cam), from Persian جام (jâm).

• IPA^(key): /dʒam/

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cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

1. glass

   Synonym: sırça

2. (informal) window

   Synonym: pencere

• camcı

cam

1. of glass

• (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”).

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 Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

cam m (plural camau)

1. step, pace, footstep
2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint
4. step (of a process), stage, phase

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

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

1. bent, crooked, distorted
2. wrong, false, incorrect

   Gweithio yn gam ― To do incorrectly

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

cam m (plural camau)

2. wrong, misdeed

   Synonyms: camwedd, pechod

Borrowed from English cam.

cam m (plural camau)

1. cam

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 Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.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