pam

See also: Pam, PAM, päm, and рат

Translingual

Symbol

pam

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kapampangan.

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pæm/
Rhymes: -æm
Audio (RP) (file)

Etymology 1

Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.

Noun

pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)

The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

Etymology 2

Probably alteration of panorama.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

(dated, photography) A panorama.
- 1934, Frank Roy Fraprie, American Photography (volume 28, page 240)
  The tripod used on a pam prevents any of that disturbing vertical shake which is so obvious in hand-held slow pams.

Verb

pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)

(dated, photography) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
- 1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331:
  In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;
- 1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk:
  The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.
- 1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347:
  At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.
- 1925, Bell Laboratories Record - Volumes 1-2:
  The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.
- 1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141:
  The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.
- 1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46:
  This equipment has a distance range of 12,000 feet, and a height range of 750 feet and b, one camera is located 1500 feet from the runway and is "pammed" to follow the airplane.

Etymology 3

Generic use of PAM.

Noun

pam

(US) Cooking spray.

Etymology 4

From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.

Noun

pam (plural pams)

(historical, dated) Alternative form of palmo, traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure.

Anagrams

AMP, APM, MAP, MPA, amp, map, p.m.a., pma

Amanab

Noun

pam

bone spoon

Catalan

Alternative forms

palma

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan palm, from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm and palma. Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish palmo.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpam/

Noun

pam m (plural pams)

span, handspan, an informal unit of measure based on a hand's width
Holonym: cana
(historical) palmo, Spanish span, a traditional Spanish unit of length

References

“pam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“pam”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
“pam” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“pam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɑm/, [ˈpɑm]
Rhymes: -ɑm
Syllabification^(key): pam

Interjection

pam!

bam! bang!

Galician

Noun

pam m (plural pans)

reintegrationist spelling of pan

References

“pam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English pump.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pam/

Noun

pam

pump

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pump.

Noun

pam

pump
(anatomy) heart

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pam/

Noun

pam (nominative plural pams)

palm, palm tree

Declension

declension of pam

	singular	plural
nominative	pam	pams
genitive	pama	pamas
dative	pame	pames
accusative	pami	pamis
vocative ¹	o pam!	o pams!
predicative ²	pamu	pamus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

Alternative forms

paham (literary)

Etymology

pa (“what”) +‎ am (“for”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pam/

Adverb

pam

why