English

Proper noun

Fam

1. A local language spoken in the Taraba State area of Nigeria.

References

• Ethnologue entry for Fam

Anagrams

• AMF, MAF, MFA

English

Noun

fam ‎(plural fams)

1. (informal) Family.

   I'm gonna visit the fam.

2. (colloquial, hospitality industry) Familiarization.

   The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.

   She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.

3. (slang, African American Vernacular, MLE, Canada) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.

   Hey fam how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.

Anagrams

• AMF, MAF, MFA

Bulu (Cameroon)

Noun

fam ‎(plural befam)

1. man (adult male human)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fames ‎(“hunger”).

Noun

fam m ‎(uncountable)

1. hunger

Related terms

• gana

Karipúna Creole French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfam/

Noun

fam

1. woman (adult female human)
2. wife (married woman)

See also

• uóm

References

• 1987, Alfred W. Tobler, Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 8.

Lojban

Rafsi

fam

1. rafsi of fanmo.

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French femme ‎(“woman”).

Noun

fam

1. woman

References

• Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin fames ‎(“hunger”).

Noun

fam m (uncountable)

1. hunger

Old French

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of fame

Old Provençal

Etymology

Latin fames.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fam/

Noun

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.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) fom

Etymology

From Latin famēs.

Noun

fam f (usually uncountable)

1. (Puter) hunger

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vam]

Noun

fam

1. Soft mutation of mam.