lăm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lam"
Bahnar
Etymology
From Chamic. Compare Eastern Cham ꨕꨤꩌ (dalam).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lam/
Preposition
lăm
- in, inside
- Synonym: tur
Chru
Etymology
From Proto-Chamic *dalam, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.
Preposition
lăm
- in, inside
References
Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 287
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ləm]
Verb
lăm
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of la
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
- nhăm (northern Vietnam)
Etymology
Alteration of năm.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [lam˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [lam˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [lam˧˧]
Numeral
lăm (𠄻)
- (only in compounds) five
- mười lăm
- fifteen
- hai (mươi) lăm
- twenty-five
- mười lăm
Usage notes
- This form is only used in compounds to indicate numbers over ten that end with five, except for 05-ending numbers (such as 105, 2005). This is probably to avoid confusion with năm with the sense "year". For example:
- mười (“ten”) + năm (“five”) → mười lăm (“fifteen”)
- mười (“ten”) + năm (“year”) → mười năm (“ten years”)
- The variant nhăm is used in Northern Vietnam in numbers greater than 20.
- See also nói ngọng.