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bam

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

Onomatopoeic.

bam

  1. Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.

    The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.

  2. Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.

    She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.

bam (plural bams)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.

Perhaps from bamboozle.

bam (plural bams)

  1. (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

    • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:

      To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)

  1. (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.

    • 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:

      This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money

    • 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
      I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
  2. (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

bam (plural bams)

  1. Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.

bam

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, neologism) to ban [2006]

bam

  1. greedy

From Malay bam, from Persian بام (bâm, “ceiling”).[1]

bam (plural bam-bam)

  1. (nautical) crosspiece

Onomatopoeic

bam (plural bam-bam)

  1. bam: boom of a large drum
  1. ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

bām

  1. dative/instrumental masculine/feminine/neuter plural of bēġen
Ēn bām.
  • baem (Late Old Frisian)

From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow”). Cognates include Old English bēam, Old Saxon bōm and Old Dutch bōm.

bām m

  1. tree
  2. bench
  3. seat
  • North Frisian:
    Most dialects: buum
    Heligoland: Booam
    Sylt: Boom
  • Saterland Frisian: Boom
  • West Frisian: beam
  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

bām m

  1. Alternative form of bom

From Proto-Khasian *baːm (“to eat”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaam (“to chew”). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá̤m, Ngeq baːm.

bam

  1. to eat

Onomatopoeic.

  • IPA(key): /ˈbam/
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: bam

bam

  1. dong, ding dong (used when imitating a clock or watch)
    Synonyms: bim-bam, bim-bam-bom
  • bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Onomatopoeic.

bam

  1. bang
  • bam in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

bam

  1. concave

    Lâ̱ư nà mì lai búng bam.

    The fields have a lot of indented areas.
  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

bam (nominative plural bams)

  1. bench
  2. seat