# رام
## Arabic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /raː.ma/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *rawam-, related to *rayam-.

#### Verb

رَامَ • (rāma) I (non-past يَرُومُ (yarūmu), verbal noun رَوْم (rawm) or مَرَام (marām))
* (transitive) to aspire to, to aim at, to envisage, to propose to oneself, to desire ardently [with accusative]
** زهير بن أبي سلمى - Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma
    وَمَنْ هابَ أَسْبَابَ المَنِيَّةِ يَلْقَهَا ... وَلَوْ رَامَ أَسْبَابَ السَّمَاءِ بِسُلَّمِwaman hāba ʔasbāba l-maniyyati yalqahā ... walaw rāma ʔasbāba s-samāʔi bisullami(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Semitic *rayam-, related to *rawam-.

#### Verb

رَامَ • (rāma) I (non-past يَرِيمُ (yarīmu), verbal noun رَيْم (raym) or رَيَمَان (rayamān))
* to depart from, to separate oneself from [with accusative]

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3

Derived from the active participle of رَمَى (ramā).

#### Noun

رَامٍ • (rāmin) m (construct state رَامِي (rāmī), plural رَامُونَ (rāmūna) or رُمَاة (rumāh))
* who shoots or throws, marksman, archer, etc.

##### Declension
### References

* Freytag, Georg (1833) “رام”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 213
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “رام”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 218
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رام”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 957
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رام”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 964
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “رام”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1193
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “رام”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1203
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رام”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 512
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رام”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 516

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɾɑːm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rɑːm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rɑːm]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [rɑːm]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [rɔːm]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹɒːm]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɾɔm]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (lʾm /⁠rām⁠/), 𐫡𐫀𐫖 (rʾm /⁠rām⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *rām-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”). Cognate with آرام (ârâm).

#### Adjective

رام • (râm)
* lame
* meek
* docile

##### Derived terms

* رام کردن (“to tame, break, subjugate”)
* رام کردنی (“tameable”)
* رام کننده (“tamer”)

### Etymology 2

From Sanskrit राम (rāma), most likely via Hindi राम (rām) / Urdu رام (rām).

#### Proper noun

رام • (râm)
* (archaic, Hinduism) Rama (Hindu god)

### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رام”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “رام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

## Punjabi
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit राम (rāma).

### Proper noun

رام • (rām) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਰਾਮ)
* (Hinduism) Rama
* (Sikhism) all pervading God
    Synonyms: واہےگُرو (wāhegurū), ربّ (rab)

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Sanskrit राम (rāma). Cognate to Bengali রাম (ram), Punjabi رام (rām)/ਰਾਮ (rām), Marathi राम (rām), Nepali राम (rām).

### Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɾɑːm/

### Proper noun

رام • (rām) m (Hindi spelling राम)
* (Hinduism) Rama
** (Hinduism) God
    رام جانے ― rām jāne ― God knows
* a male given name, Ram, from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage

#### Derived terms

* رام بھکت (rām-bhakt, “devotee of Rama”)
* رام پھل (rām-phal, “sugar apple”, literally “fruit of Rama”)
* رام چرت (rām-carit, “exploits of Rama”)
* رام دھنش (rām-dhanuś, “rainbow”, literally “bow of Rama”)
* رام رام (rām rām, Hindu greeting)
* رام راجیہ (rām-rājya, “reign of Rama”)
* رام لیلا (rām-līlā, “play of Rama”)

### References

* Platts, John T. (1884) “رام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “رام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.