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 Prakrit 𑀖𑀫𑁆𑀫 (ghamma), from Sanskrit घ॒र्म (gharmá), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰarmás, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- + *-mós.

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cam	cham	gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• 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)

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cam	cham	gam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Related to Persian جام (jâm).

cam f

1. glass

cam

1. Alternative spelling of camm

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cam	cam	cam
Vocative	caim* cam**
Accusative	cam	caim
Genitive	caim	caime	caim
Dative	cam	caim	cam
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	caim	cama
Vocative	camu cama†
Accusative	camu cama†
Genitive	cam
Dative	camaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cam	cham	cam pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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:

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	cam	cham	cama
Vocative	chaim	chaim	cama
Genitive	chaim	chaim/caime	cam
Dative	cham	chaim	cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cam	cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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^[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^[4] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français‎^[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

Inflection
Nominative	cam
Definite accusative	camı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cam	camlar
Definite accusative	camı	camları
Dative	cama	camlara
Locative	camda	camlarda
Ablative	camdan	camlardan
Genitive	camın	camların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular camım camlarım 2nd singular camın camların 3rd singular camı camları 1st plural camımız camlarımız 2nd plural camınız camlarınız 3rd plural camları camları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular camımı camlarımı 2nd singular camını camlarını 3rd singular camını camlarını 1st plural camımızı camlarımızı 2nd plural camınızı camlarınızı 3rd plural camlarını camlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular camıma camlarıma 2nd singular camına camlarına 3rd singular camına camlarına 1st plural camımıza camlarımıza 2nd plural camınıza camlarınıza 3rd plural camlarına camlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular camımda camlarımda 2nd singular camında camlarında 3rd singular camında camlarında 1st plural camımızda camlarımızda 2nd plural camınızda camlarınızda 3rd plural camlarında camlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular camımdan camlarımdan 2nd singular camından camlarından 3rd singular camından camlarından 1st plural camımızdan camlarımızdan 2nd plural camınızdan camlarınızdan 3rd plural camlarından camlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular camımın camlarımın 2nd singular camının camlarının 3rd singular camının camlarının 1st plural camımızın camlarımızın 2nd plural camınızın camlarınızın 3rd plural camlarının camlarının
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular camım camlarım 2nd singular camsın camlarsın 3rd singular cam camdır camlar camlardır 1st plural camız camlarız 2nd plural camsınız camlarsınız 3rd plural camlar camlardır

• 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

Colors in Vietnamese · màu sắc (layout · text)

trắng	xám	đen
đỏ; thắm, thẫm	cam; nâu	vàng; kem
vàng chanh	xanh, xanh lá cây, xanh lục, lục	xanh bạc hà; xanh lục đậm
xanh lơ, hồ thuỷ; xanh mòng két	xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh	xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam
tím; chàm	tía	hồng

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

   Synonyms: camre, pas

2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint

   Synonym: ôl troed

4. step (of a process), stage, phase

   Synonyms: gradd, adeg, pwynt, cyfnod

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

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

1. bent, crooked, distorted

   Synonym: gŵyr

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)

2. 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