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Fam

Fam

See also: fam, fam., Fam., and fám

English

Proper noun

Fam

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

References

Anagrams

fam

fam

See also: Fam, fam., Fam., and fám

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


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


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

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.