cham
English
Etymology 1
From French cham, from Turkish han (“lord, prince”) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Noun
cham (plural chams)
- Archaic spelling of khan.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- And ſince we haue arriu’d in Scythia,
Beſides rich preſents from the puiſant Cham,
UUe haue his highneſſe letters to commaund
Aide and aſſiſtance if we ſtand in need.
- 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War:
- But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter […]
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- An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four.
- 2007, Michael Dobson, “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 9, page 3:
- The Tonsons […] would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication
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Etymology 2
See chap.
Verb
cham (third-person singular simple present chams, present participle chamming, simple past and past participle chammed)
- (obsolete) To chew.
- 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
- But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]
- 1531, William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue
Etymology 3
From ch- + am, from ich + am.
Contraction
cham
- (West Country, obsolete) I am
Synonyms
- I'm
References
- Holloway, William (1840) A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, London: John Russell Smith, page 27
Anagrams
- ACMH, HAMC, HMAC, Mach, Mach., mach.
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From French charme.
Noun
cham
- potion
French
Etymology 1
From Vietnamese Chăm, from Eastern Cham Cam.
Adjective
cham (feminine chame, masculine plural chams, feminine plural chames)
- Cham
Etymology 2
From Turkish han (“khan”).
Noun
cham m (plural chams)
- khan
Further reading
- “cham”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): [xaumˠ]
- (Galway) IPA(key): [xɑːmˠ]
- (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): [xamˠ]
Adjective
cham
- Lenited form of cam.
Macanese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”).
Noun
cham (plural cham-cham)
- soil
- ground
- Fu-fula semea na cham di Hoing-Gong ― Flowers picked from the soil of Hong Kong
Middle English
Etymology
See ch-.
Verb
cham
- I am
Old Irish
Adjective
cham
- Alternative spelling of chamm: lenited form of cam.
Polish
Etymology
From Cham, from Hebrew חָם (Ḥām).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xam/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -am
- Syllabification: cham
- Homophone: Cham
Noun
cham m pers (feminine chamka)
- (derogatory) arrogant, ill-mannered person
- Synonyms: prostak, prymityw
- (archaic) peasant, countryman, person of low birth
- Synonym: wieśniak
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | cham | chami |
genitive | chama | chamów |
dative | chamowi | chamom |
accusative | chama | chamów |
instrumental | chamem | chamami |
locative | chamie | chamach |
vocative | chamie | chami |
Derived terms
- chamowaty
- chamski
- chamsko
- chamica
- chamidło
- chamisko
- chamskość
- chamstwo
- chamuś
- chamieć
- odchamiać się
- odchamić się
- schamieć
Further reading
- cham in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cham in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
cham m (plural chans)
- Obsolete spelling of chão
Scottish Gaelic
Adjective
cham
- Lenited form of cam.
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cam | cham |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Tzotzil
Verb
cham
- (intransitive) to die
- Icham. ― He/she died.
- Mu me jk'an xicham. ― I do not want to die.[1]
- Synonyms: chʼay, chʼay ikʼ, laj, olan
References
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1977) Of cabagges and kings: tales from Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 269.
- Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.