cam

• IPA^(key): [kæm]

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• Rhymes: -æm

A cam (shown in yellow)

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• 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 Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).

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 clipping of English camera.

cam

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) camera (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)

1. reintegrationist spelling of can

• “cam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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/

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

1. crooked
2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)

   Synonym: lúbtha

• camán m (“shinty stick”)
• camóg f (“crook”)

• → Yola: caam

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cam”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish camm.

cam (plural cammey)

1. crooked
2. deformed
3. deceitful
4. (of wood) knotty

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

Related to Persian جام‎ (jâm).

cam f

1. glass

cam

1. Alternative spelling of camm

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

cam

1. approximately, a little
2. rather

   Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.

   This lake is rather dirty.

• ca

From Old Irish camm.

• IPA^(key): /kaːm/, /kʰaum/

cam

1. crooked, askew

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Comparative/superlative: caime

cam

1. food

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

From Ottoman Turkish جام‎ (cam), from Persian جام‎ (jâm).

• IPA^(key): /dʒam/

cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

1. glass

   Synonym: sırça

2. (informal) window

   Synonym: pencere

cam

1. of glass

Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”).

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

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

1. orange, such as or citrus sinensis sinensis or citrus aurantium
2. Short for cam sành (“Citrus reticulata × sinensis”).

cam

1. made of oranges
2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

cam

1. Short for camera.

• IPA^(key): /kam/

From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

cam m (plural camau)

1. step, pace, footstep
2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint
4. step (of a process), stage, phase

• cam a cham (“step by step”)
• camu (“to step”)

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

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

1. bent, crooked, distorted
2. wrong, false, incorrect
3. wrong, unjust

cam m (plural camau)

1. wrong, misdeed

Borrowed from English cam.

cam m (plural camau)

1. cam

cam

1. simple past tense of coome
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, 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