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fam

See also: Fam, FAM, fam., Fam., fám, and fâm

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fam (plural fams)

  1. (informal) Clipping of family.
    I'm gonna visit the fam.
  2. (colloquial, hospitality industry) Clipping of familiarization.
    The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
    She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.
  3. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
    Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
    • 2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:
      “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”

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Bulu (Cameroon)

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fam (plural befam)

  1. man (adult male human)

Catalan

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Inherited from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Occitan fam or Occitan hami.

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fam f (uncountable)

  1. hunger (desire for food)
    Synonym: gana
  2. famine, starvation

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Franco-Provençal

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Inherited from Latin famēs.

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fam f (plural fams) (ORB large)

  1. hunger

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  • faim in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • fam in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Galician

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fam

  1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of fazer

Hausa

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Borrowed from English pound.

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fâm m (plural fàmā̀fàmai or fàmfàmai)

  1. pound (currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria)
  2. (colloquial) 2 naira.

Karipúna Creole French

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From French femme (“woman; wife”), from Latin fēmina.

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fam

  1. woman
  2. wife

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  • Alfred W. Tobler (1987) Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna (in Karipúna Creole French), Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 8

Louisiana Creole

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From French femme (“woman”).

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fam

  1. woman

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  • Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

Mauritian Creole

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From French femme.

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fam

  1. (derogatory) woman

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  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

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fam

  1. Alternative form of fom

Occitan

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From Old Occitan fam, from Latin famēs (“hunger”).

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fam m (uncountable)

  1. hunger

Old English

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From Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

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fām n

  1. foam

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Declension of fam (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative fām fām
accusative fām fām
genitive fāmes fāma
dative fāme fāmum

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: fom, fam, fome, foom, foome
    • English: foam
    • Scots: fame, faim, faem
  • → Faroese: fám

Old French

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fam oblique singular, f (oblique plural fans, nominative singular fam, nominative plural fans)

  1. Alternative form of fame

Old Occitan

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From Latin famēs.

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fam

  1. hunger
    • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:
      Quar senes lieys non puesc viure, / Tant ai pres de s'amor gran fam.
      For without her I cannot live, such great hunger have I for her love.

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Romansch

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From Latin famēs.

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fam f (usually uncountable)

  1. (Puter) hunger

Welsh

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fam

  1. Soft mutation of mam.

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mam fam unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zazaki

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Related to Persian فهم (fahm).

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fam

  1. intelligence
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