# bam
## Translingual
### Symbol

bam
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Bambara.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæm/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æm

### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

bam
* Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
    The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
** 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep‎, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 266:We all looked up from the maps, silent, and listened to the hurried footsteps in the entryway. They padded up the red carpet, bam-bam-bam, and across the landing and then up the next flight at a gallop, bam-bam-bam.
* Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
    She said she dumped him. Now — bam! — they're back together.

##### Synonyms

* bang
* blam
* pow
* wham
* dishoom (India)

##### Derived terms

* bammo
* kabam
* wham, bam, thank you ma'am

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bam (plural bams)
* (Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.

### Etymology 3

Perhaps from bamboozle.

#### Noun

bam (plural bams)
* (slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
** 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:To relieve the tedium he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

#### Verb

bam (third-person singular simple present bams, present participle bamming, simple past and past participle bammed)
* (slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
** 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
** 1747, David Garrick, Miss in Her Teens: or the Medley of Lovers, Act II, in The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, ed. Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, vol. 1 (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980), 93
    I’ll break a lamp, bully a constable, bam a justice, or bilk a boxkeeper with any man in the liberties of Westminster.
* (slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

bam (plural bams)
* Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

### Anagrams

* -mab, ABM, B. M. A., BMA, MAb, MBA, Mab, Mba, amb, amb., mAb, mab

## Chinese
### Etymology

Misspelling of English ban. Doublet of ban.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): bem$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bem$^1$
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bem$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bém$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɛːm⁵⁵/

### Verb

bam
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, leetspeak, neologism) to ban [2006]

#### Derived terms

* bam圖 / bam图

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bam/

### Adjective

bam
* greedy

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbam/
* Rhymes: -bam, -am, -m

### Etymology 1

From Malay bam, from Persian بام (bâm, “ceiling”).

#### Noun

bam (plural bam-bam)
* (nautical) crosspiece

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic

#### Noun

bam (plural bam-bam)
* bam: boom of a large drum

### References

* ↑ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

### Further reading

* “bam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːm/

### Determiner

bām
* dative/instrumental masculine/feminine/neuter plural of bēġen

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* baem (Late Old Frisian)

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow”). Cognates include Old English bēam, Old Saxon bōm and Old Dutch bōm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːm/

### Noun

bām m
* tree
* bench
* seat

#### Descendants

* North Frisian:
    Most dialects: buum
    Heligoland: Booam
    Sylt: Boom
* Saterland Frisian: Boom
* West Frisian: beam

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

## Old Saxon
### Noun

bām m
* Alternative form of bom

## Pnar
### Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *baːm (“to eat”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaam (“to chew”). Cognate with Khasi bam, Blang [La Gang] pá̤m, Ngeq baːm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bam/

### Verb

bam
* to eat

## Polish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbam/
* Rhymes: -am
* Syllabification: bam

### Interjection

bam
* dong, ding dong (used when imitating a clock or watch)
    Synonyms: bim-bam, bim-bam-bom

### Further reading

* bam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Interjection

bam
* bang

### References

* bam in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [ɓaːm˧˥]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [ɓaːm˦]

### Adjective

bam
* concave
    Lâ̱ư nà mì lai búng bam.The fields have a lot of indented areas.

### References

* Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

## Volapük
### Noun

bam (nominative plural bams)
* bench
* seat

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only