Lam in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Lam

You can make 6 words from 'lam' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'lam'
• 2 letters words from 'lam'

3 letters words from 'lam'

LAM 5

MAL 5

2 letters words from 'lam'

AL 2	AM 4
LA 2	MA 4

Definitions and meaning of lam

lam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

Alternative forms

• lamm

Verb

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

1. (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
   • 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,

     An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter ,

     They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]

2. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
   • 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4:

     [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!

Translations

Derived terms

• lambaste
• lam into
• lam out
• on the lam
• take it on the lam

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām), the name of the letter ل‎ (l).

Noun

lam (plural lams)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل‎ (l). It is preceded by ك‎ (k) and followed by م‎ (m).

Anagrams

• ALM, AML, M.L.A., MLA, Mal, Mal., alm, mal, mal-

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lam/

Noun

lam (plural lammers)

1. lamb

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

Adjective

lam

1. lame

Inflection

Derived terms

• lam i roen

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

Noun

lam n (singular definite lammet, plural indefinite lam)

1. lamb

Inflection

Derived terms

• påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑm/
• Hyphenation: lam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb.

Noun

lam n (plural lammeren, diminutive lammetje n)

1. lamb, the young of a sheep
2. (metonymically) The meat - or fleece/wool produce of a lamb; a dish prepared from lamb's meat
3. (figuratively) A gentle person, especially an innocent child

Derived terms

Descendants

• Negerhollands: lam, lamtje
• → Papiamentu: lamchi, lammetsje

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam (comparative lammer, superlative lamst)

1. lame, unable to move, paralyzed
2. (informal) very drunk

Inflection

Derived terms

• lamstraal m
• lamme m
• verlammen
• vleugellam

Descendants

• Negerhollands: lam
• → Papiamentu: lam

Anagrams

• mal

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Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lám/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [láŋ]

Noun

lam f

1. lam (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

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Limilngan

Noun

lam

1. frilled-neck lizard

References

• Mark Harvey, A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia (2001)

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

Noun

lam n

1. lamb

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• lamp

Descendants

• Dutch: lam
• Limburgish: lamb

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam

1. lame
2. weak, strengthless

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• lāem

Descendants

• Dutch: lam
• Limburgish: laam

Further reading

• “lam”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lamb”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “lam (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “lam (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami

Adjective

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

1. paralysed / paralyzed, crippled

Related terms

• lamme (verb)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb

Noun

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma or lammene)

1. a lamb (young sheep)

Derived terms

• lammekjøtt
• påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Etymology 3

Verb

lam

1. imperative of lamme

References

• “lam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lami

Adjective

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

1. paralysed; crippled

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lamb.

Noun

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma)

1. a lamb (young sheep)
2. (by extension, Christianity, figuratively) Christ as sacrificial lamb

Derived terms

• lammekjøt, lammekjøtt
• påskelam (“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lam

1. imperative of lamma and lamme (to lamb)
2. imperative of lamma and lamme (to paralyze)

References

• “lam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laimą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑːm/

Noun

lām n

1. clay, loam

Descendants

• English: loam

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Old High German

Etymology

Common Proto-Germanic *lamaz, whence also Old English lama, Old Norse lami.

Adjective

lam

1. lame

Descendants

• Middle High German: lam
  • Alemannic German: lamm
  • German: lahm
  • Hunsrik: laam

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Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lam f

1. genitive plural of lama

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lam]

Verb

lam

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of la
2. first-person plural imperfect indicative of la

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish lamber, from Old Norse lami, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

Adjective

lam (comparative lamare, superlative lamast)

1. lame, unable to move any limbs
2. (slang) lame, inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so

Declension

See also

• förlamad
• lamslagen

Anagrams

• LMA, alm, mal

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English lamp.

Noun

lam

1. lamp

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [laːm˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 藍.

Adjective

lam

1. blue

Usage notes

• The word is not used very often. The most common use of it is to refer to one of the seven colors of a rainbow, as in the listing "đỏ, cam, vàng, lục, lam, chàm, tím".

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

lam • (𥜓)

1. (architecture) louvers, blinds, shutters

   Synonym: cửa chớp

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Arm and English arm.

Noun

lam (nominative plural lams)

1. arm
2. blade
3. sharp blade

Declension

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Welsh

Noun

lam

1. Soft mutation of llam.

Mutation

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Yámana

Noun

lam

1. sun

Source: wiktionary.org

• to beat.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)