jammed

See also: jamm'ed

English

Adjective

jammed

Stuck.
The window is jammed shut.

How to treat a jammed finger or toe.

The printer is still jammed. Make sure that all the jammed paper is removed.

The ship was jammed between two rocks.
Overcrowded; congested.
Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.

These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.

A jammed Oktoberfest beer tent.

Related terms

jammed up

Translations

pertaining to something which is stuck

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} fiksiĝis
Finnish: jumissa (fi)
German: eingeklemmt (de), festgeklemmt (de), eingequetscht (de)
Italian: bloccato (it), inceppato (it)

overcrowded; congested

Danish: propfuld, smækfuld
Dutch: overvol (nl), propvol (nl)
Faroese: sprenfullur
German: überfüllt (de), verstopft (de), proppenvoll (de)
Icelandic: sneisafullur
Italian: affollato (it), trafficato (it) ((about roads))
Norwegian: proppfull, stappfull
Swedish: överfull (sv)

Verb

jammed

simple past and past participle of jam

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *jāmētēk.

Verb

jammed

die

Further reading

Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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