sam

Acronym

• SAM

sam

1. Surface-to-air missile

From Middle English sammen, samnen, from Old English samnian, ġesamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), from Proto-Germanic *samnōną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Cognate with Dutch zamelen (“to collect”), German sammeln (“to collect, gather”), Swedish samla (“to gather, collect”), Icelandic samna (“to gather, collect”). More at same.

• IPA^(key): /sæm/

• samen

sam (third-person singular simple present sams, present participle samming, simple past and past participle sammed)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To assemble.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, of persons) To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal, of things) To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
   • Snowden (1893)

     We sammed together all we could find.

4. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To assemble; come together.
5. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To coagulate; curdle (milk).

• Often used with together or up

• stand sam
• upon my sam

From Middle English sām (“together”), from Old English sāmen (“together”), form Proto-Germanic *samana (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”).

sam (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Together
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Now are they saints all in that city sam.

   • a1600, The Battle of Floddon Field:

     All Sam the souldiers then replied.

From Middle English sam- (prefix), from Old English sām- (“half-; partly; incompletely”), from Proto-Germanic *sēmi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi- (“half”). Related to semi- (via Latin).

• IPA^(key): /sæm/

sam (not comparable)

1. (dialectal) Half or imperfectly done.
2. (of food) Half-heated.

• sammy
• sandblind

Possibly from Uncle Sam.

• IPA^(key): /sæm/

sam (plural sams)

1. (slang) Federal narcotics agent.

• 'ams, -mas, A.M.s, AMS, ASM, M. A. S., M.A.S., M.A.s, MAS, MAs, MSA, SMA, mas, sma

sam

1. two

• El último charrúa: de Salsipuedes a la actualidad (1996)
• Idioma español y habla criolla: Charrúas y vilelas (1968)
• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 62

sam

1. father

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)sam.

sam

1. hair (of the head)
2. antenna (of insects)

sam

1. easy, simple

From Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”) (compare Welsh haf), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ó- (compare Old English sumor, Old Armenian ամառն (amaṙn)).

• IPA^(key): /saṽ/

sam m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. summer

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• samrad

• “1 sam” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Proto-Slavic *samъ, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

• IPA^(key): /sam/

• audio

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sam (not always comparable, comparative bardziej sam, superlative najbardziej sam)

1. (comparable) alone, without company
2. (not comparable) myself, yourself, himself, etc. (emphatic determiner, used similarly to "no other than" or "the very", as in "I myself")
3. (not comparable) by oneself, alone, by own volition or power, without outside help or encouragement

• sam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Bengali.

sam

1. skin

From Proto-Slavic *samъ, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

sȃm (definite sȃmī, Cyrillic spelling са̑м)

1. alone, sole
2. unaided, single-handed
3. absolute, very, mere, unmixed
4. solitary, secluded

From Proto-Slavic *(j)esmь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *esmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi.

sȁm (Cyrillic spelling са̏м)

1. first-person singular present tense enclitic form of biti.

   Tu sam. — I'm here.

From Proto-Slavic *samъ, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsáːm/
• Tonal orthography: sȃm

sám (not comparable)

1. alone, sole
2. unaided, single-handed, by oneself

• sámost
• samoglásnik
• samomòr
• samostálnik
• samoróg
• samostán

Possibly from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kt₁aam (“crab”) (Norman & Mei, 1976; mistakenly glossed as "king crab"). However, Shorto (2006) includes no such derivation. Compare Vietnamese đam (“field crab”).

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

(classifier con) sam (𧏰, 𧓰)

1. a horseshoe crab

   đuôi sam

   a horseshoe crab's tail; a braid/plait

• Proto-Austro-Asiatic ta:m "crab" at Tower of Babel Project

From Proto-Tai *saːm (“three”), from Middle Chinese 三 (MC sɑm, “three”). Cognate with Thai สาม (sǎam), Northern Thai ᩈᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ສາມ (sām), Lü ᦉᦱᧄ (ṡaam), Tai Dam ꪎꪱꪣ, Shan သၢမ် (sǎam), Tai Nüa ᥔᥣᥛᥴ (saam¹), Ahom 𑜏𑜪 (sam).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θaːm˨˦/
• Tone numbers: sam¹
• Hyphenation: sam

sam (old orthography sam)

1. three