lam

• IPA^(key): /læm/
• Rhymes: -æm

From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

• lamm

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

1. (transitive) To beat or thrash.
   • 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,

     An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter ,

     They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]

2. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
   • 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4:

     [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!

• lambaste
• lam into
• lam out

• on the lam

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām), the name of the letter ل‎ (l).

lam (plural lams)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل‎ (l). It is preceded by ك‎ (k) and followed by م‎ (m).

• ALM, AML, M.L.A., MLA, Mal, Mal., mal, mal-

From Dutch lam.

• IPA^(key): /lam/

lam (plural lammers)

1. lamb

From Old Norse lami.

• IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

lam

1. lame

From Old Norse lamb.

• IPA^(key): /lam/, [lɑmˀ]

lam n (singular definite lammet, plural indefinite lam)

1. lamb

• IPA^(key): /lɑm/
• Rhymes: -ɑm

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From Middle Dutch lam, from Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

lam n (plural lammeren, diminutive lammetje n)

1. lamb, the young of a sheep
2. (metonymically) The meat - or fleece/wool produce of a lamb; a dish prepared from lamb's meat
3. (figuratively) A gentle person, especially an innocent child

From Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

lam (comparative lammer, superlative lamst)

1. lame, unable to move, paralyzed
2. (informal) very drunk

• lamstraal m
• lamme m
• verlammen
• vleugellam

• mal

lam f

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ل‎

lam

1. frilled-neck lizard

• Mark Harvey, A Grammar of Limilngan: A Language of the Mary River Region, Northern Territory, Australia (2001)

From Old Dutch *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.

lam n

1. lamb

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• lamp

• Dutch: lam
• Limburgish: lamb

From Old Dutch *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz.

lam

1. lame
2. weak, strengthless

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• lāem

• Dutch: lam
• Limburgish: laam

• “lam”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lamb”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “lam (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “lam (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old Norse lami

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

1. paralysed / paralyzed, crippled

• lamme (verb)

From Old Norse lamb

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma or lammene)

1. a lamb (young sheep)

• lammekjøtt

lam

1. imperative of lamme

• “lam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse lami

lam (neuter singular lamt, definite singular and plural lamme)

1. paralysed; crippled

From Old Norse lamb

lam n (definite singular lammet, indefinite plural lam, definite plural lamma)

1. a lamb (young sheep)

• lammekjøt, lammekjøtt

• “lam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *laimą.

lām n

1. clay, loam

• English: loam

Common Proto-Germanic *lamaz, whence also Old English lama, Old Norse lami

lam

1. lame

• Middle High German: lam
  • Alemannic German: lamm
  • German: lahm

lam

1. genitive plural of lama

lam (comparative lamare, superlative lamast)

1. lame, unable to move any limbs
2. (slang) lame, inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so

   Det var ett lamt försök. Gör ditt bästa istället!

   That was a lame attempt. Do your best instead!

• förlamad
• lamslagen

From English lamp.

lam

1. lamp

Sino-Vietnamese word from 藍.

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

lam

1. blue

• The word is not used very often. The most common use of it is to refer to one of the seven colors of a rainbow, as in the listing "đỏ, cam, vàng, lục, lam, chàm, tím".

Borrowed from German Arm and English arm.

lam (plural lams)

1. arm
2. blade
3. sharp blade

lam

1. Soft mutation of llam.