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Definitions and meaning of gam

gam

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gamb, gamba, jamb, and jambe. Compare gammon and ham.

Noun

gam (plural gams)

2. (slang, dated) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.

Etymology 2

Uncertain but surely formed within English; etymons may include game or gammon.

Noun

gam (plural gams)

1. Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gam.
2. (by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).

Translations

Verb

gam (third-person singular simple present gams, present participle gamming, simple past and past participle gammed)

1. (nautical, ambitransitive) To pay a social visit on another ship at sea.
2. (US, dialect) To engage in social intercourse anywhere.

References

See also

• gam gam

Anagrams

• MGA, GMA, Mag., AMG, gma, MAG, AGM, Mag, mag-, mag

Acehnese

Noun

gam

1. boy

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bandjalang

Noun

gam

1. (Wahlubal) hair of the head

Synonyms

• guhndun

Catalan

Etymology

From gamar-se.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am

Noun

gam m (plural gams)

1. a wasting diseases, particularly distomatosis

   Synonym: gamadura

Further reading

• “gam”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish gam, from Old Norse gammr, gambr. Cognate with Old High German gampilun, gabilun (“a fablelike creature”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡamˈ]

Noun

gam c (singular definite gammen, plural indefinite gamme)

1. (obsolete) a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
2. (obsolete, rare) a griffin

Declension

References

• “gam” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Galo

Etymology

From Assamese [Term?].

Noun

gam

1. village headman

Garo

Noun

gam

1. stuff

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English gum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡâm/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɡâŋ]

Noun

gâm m

1. glue, paste

Middle English

Noun

gam

1. alternative form of game

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• gaim, gem

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gyemos.

Noun

gam (gender unknown)

1. winter, winter storm

Derived terms

• gaimred

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gaim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: gam

Noun

gam f

1. genitive plural of gama

Scots

Etymology

The etymology of the original meaning of tooth is unclear but the later senses probably developed by conflation with the English word gum, which has a similar sound and also refers to a part of the lower mouth.

Noun

gam

1. A tooth.
2. The lower part of the face, consisting of the mouth, lips and jaw.
3. A blowjob.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:gam.

Further reading

• “gam”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Contraction of aig + mo (at my) or aig + am (at their)

Pronoun

gam

1. me (direct object)

   A bheil thu gam chluinntinn? - Do you hear me?

2. them (direct object)

   Cha robh i gam faicinn. - She didn't see them.

Usage notes

• As me lenites the following word.
• As them used before words beginning with b, f, m or p; otherwise gan is used.
• Although this can be thought of as filling the function of a direct object pronoun, it is actually a form of possessive, and can therefore only be used in a periphrastic tense formed with a verbal noun, never as the object of a finite verb. Tha e gam chluinntinn is literally "he is at the hearing of me", whereby gam represents "at ... of me". With a finite verb, the genuine object pronouns would be used: Chluinn e mi he heard me, chluinn e iad, he heard them.

Related terms

Sumerian

Romanization

gam

1. romanization of 𒃵 (gam)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gammr.

Noun

gam c

1. a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
2. (colloquial) someone who takes advantage of a demise or a bankruptcy, usually in a legal, but, for the affected people, offensive way

Declension

Ternate

Etymology

From the older gamu, with word-final vowel deletion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡam]

Noun

gam

1. alternative form of gamu

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm).

Noun

gam (definite accusative gamı, plural gamlar)

1. sorrow

See also

• envâ-ı gam
• kaygılar

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French gramme.

Alternative forms

• cà ram
• cờ ram
• gờ ram

Noun

gam

1. gram (unit of mass)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French gamme.

Noun

gam

1. (music) musical scale

   Synonym: âm giai

Volapük

Noun

gam (nominative plural gams)

1. bride, groom

Declension

Derived terms

• higam
• jigam

Zazaki

Noun

gam

1. step

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