Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word lam. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in lam.
Definitions and meaning of lam
lam
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /læm/
Rhymes: -æm
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishlamen, lemen, from Old Englishlemian and Old Norselemja; both from Proto-Germanic*lamjaną.
Alternative forms
lamm
Verb
lam (third-person singular simple presentlams, present participlelamming, simple past and past participlelammed)
(transitive) 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 […]
(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 Arabicلَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).
Noun
lam (plurallams)
The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
(by extension, Christianity, figuratively) Christ as sacrificial lamb
Derived terms
lammekjøt, lammekjøtt
påskelam(“Passover lamb, Paschal Lamb”)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lam
imperative oflammaandlamme(to lamb)
imperative oflammaandlamme(to paralyze)
References
“lam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic*laimą.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lɑːm/
Noun
lāmn
clay, loam
Descendants
English: loam
Old High German
Etymology
Common Proto-Germanic*lamaz, whence also Old Englishlama, Old Norselami.
Adjective
lam
lame
Descendants
Middle High German: lam
Alemannic German: lamm
German: lahm
Hunsrik: laam
Polish
Noun
lam
genitive plural of lama
Romanian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [lam]
Verb
lam
first-person singular imperfect indicative of la
first-person plural imperfect indicative of la
Swedish
Adjective
lam (comparativelamare, superlativelamast)
lame, unable to move any limbs
(slang) lame, inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so
Declension
See also
förlamad
lamslagen
Anagrams
LMA, alm, mal
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From Englishlamp.
Noun
lam
lamp
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
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".