# rame
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reɪm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪm

### Etymology 1

From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).

#### Alternative forms

* raim, rane

#### Noun

rame (uncountable)
* (Scotland) A remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
** 1818, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck:"Does he ever mention the king in his prayer?" "O yes: always." "What does he say about him?" "Something about the sceptre of righteousness, and the standard of truth. I ken he has some rhame about him."

#### Verb

rame (third-person singular simple present rames, present participle raming, simple past and past participle ramed)
* (Northern England, Scotland) To complain or cry incessantly.
** 1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling:The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally.
* (Northern England, Scotland) To talk nonsensically.
** 1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission:Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder.

#### Derived terms

* rame over
* raming

### Etymology 2

From French rame.

#### Noun

rame (plural rames)
* A branch.
** 1886, Thomas Heney, Fortunate Days:Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown With golden down Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves

### Anagrams

* mera, Amer., mear, Erma, Maré, Maer, Mera, Ream, amer., Arem, arme, mare, ream

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

rame
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of ramen

### Anagrams

* arme, mare

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁam/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From ramer.

#### Noun

rame f (plural rames)
* oar, paddle
** 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXIX, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C$^{ie}$, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:Le fils de Barberousse était si cruel et traitait si mal ses captifs, que ceux qui occupaient les bancs de sa chiourme ne virent pas plutôt la galère la Louve se diriger sur eux et prendre de l’avance, qu’ils lâchèrent tous à la fois les rames, et saisirent leur capitaine, qui leur criait du gaillard d’arrière de ramer plus vite ; puis se le passant de banc en banc, de la poupe à la proue, ils lui donnèrent tant de coups de dents, qu’avant d’avoir atteint le mât, il avait rendu son âme aux enfers....The son of Barbarossa was so cruel and treated his captives so badly, that those who occupied the benches of his galley no sooner saw the galley la Louve steering to them and advancing, that they let go of the oars all at once, and seized their captain, who yelled to them from the aftcastle to row faster; then passing him to each other from bench to bench, from the poop to the prow, they bit him so much, that before having reached the mast, he had rendered his soul to Hell....

##### Derived terms

* ne pas en foutre une rame

##### Related terms

* ramer
* rameur

### Etymology 2

From Catalan raima.

#### Noun

rame f (plural rames)
* ream (of paper)
* train

##### Synonyms

* train

### Further reading

* “rame”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* amer, arme, armé, mare

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### Noun

rame (plural rame-rame)
* hemp

## Italian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.me/
* Rhymes: -ame
* Hyphenation: rà‧me
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

rame m (uncountable)
* (chemistry) copper (metal)

#### Derived terms

* ramare
* ramato
* ramifero

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: ram
** Albanian: rem

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “rem”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 367-8

### Anagrams

* Mera, arme, erma, mare, mera, rema

## Latin
### Noun

rāme
* vocative singular of rāmus

### References

* rame in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “rame”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* ram

### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German rama f (“support”), from Proto-West Germanic *hramu (“frame, support”).

### Noun

rame f
* frame

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Ramme
* German: Rahmen m, Ramen, Rahme, Rame (obsolete)
** → Czech: rám
** → Romanian: ramă
** → Russian: рама (rama)
* Luxembourgish: Rumm
* Vilamovian: raom
* → Old Polish: rama, ram
** Polish: rama
*** → Belarusian: ра́ма (ráma)
*** → Kashubian: rama
*** → Russian: ра́ма (ráma)
**** → Azerbaijani: rama
**** → Ingush: рама (rama)
**** → Yakut: араама (araama)
*** → Ukrainian: ра́ма (ráma)
** Silesian: rama, rōma

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ormę, cognate with Proto-Germanic *armaz.

### Noun

rȁme n (Cyrillic spelling ра̏ме)
* shoulder

#### Declension
### See also

* pleća

## Ternate
### Etymology

From North Moluccan Malay rame, from Malay ramai. The noun may derive from N- (“nominalizer”) +‎ rame, which produces no change on the initial consonant.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɾa.me/

### Verb

rame
* (stative) to be lively

#### Conjugation
### Noun

rame
* liveliness

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Malay ramai.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɾa.me/

### Adjective

rame
* lively; bustling; festive