Definitions and meaning of gam
gam
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡæm/
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- Rhymes: -æm
Etymology 1
From Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gamb, gamba, jamb, and jambe. Compare gammon and ham.
Noun
gam (plural gams)
- (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)
- Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
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- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gam.
- (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)
- (nautical, ambitransitive) To pay a social visit on another ship at sea.
- (US, dialect) To engage in social intercourse anywhere.
References
See also
Anagrams
- MGA, GMA, Mag., AMG, gma, MAG, AGM, Mag, mag-, mag
Acehnese
Noun
gam
- boy
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Bandjalang
Noun
gam
- (Wahlubal) hair of the head
Synonyms
Catalan
Etymology
From gamar-se.
Pronunciation
Noun
gam m (plural gams)
- 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
Noun
gam c (singular definite gammen, plural indefinite gamme)
- (obsolete) a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
- (obsolete, rare) a griffin
Declension
References
- “gam” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Galo
Etymology
From Assamese [Term?].
Noun
gam
- village headman
Garo
Noun
gam
- stuff
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from English gum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡâm/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɡâŋ]
Noun
gâm m
- glue, paste
Middle English
Noun
gam
- alternative form of game
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gyemos.
Noun
gam (gender unknown)
- winter, winter storm
Derived terms
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
- 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
- A tooth.
- The lower part of the face, consisting of the mouth, lips and jaw.
- 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
- me (direct object)
- A bheil thu gam chluinntinn? - Do you hear me?
- 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
- romanization of 𒃵 (gam)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse gammr.
Noun
gam c
- a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
- (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
Noun
gam
- 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)
- sorrow
See also
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ɣaːm˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ɣaːm˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ɣaːm˧˧]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French gramme.
Alternative forms
Noun
gam
- gram (unit of mass)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French gamme.
Noun
gam
- (music) musical scale
- Synonym: âm giai
Volapük
Noun
gam (nominative plural gams)
- bride, groom
Declension
Derived terms
Zazaki
Noun
gam
- step
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