# fam
## English
### Etymology

Abbreviations
* (family, term of endearment): Clipping of family
* (familiarization): Clipping of familiarization

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

fam (plural fams)
* (informal) Clipping of family.
    I'm gonna visit the fam.
* (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, Internet slang) A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
    Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
** 2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing
** 2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:“Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”
* (colloquial, hospitality industry) Clipping of familiarization.
    The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
    She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.

#### Derived terms

* famalam
* fam-bam
* fam trip

### Anagrams

* AFM, AMF, FMA, MAF, MFA

## Bulu (Cameroon)
### Noun

fam (plural befam)
* man (adult male human)

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Occitan fam or Occitan hami.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfam]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fam f (uncountable)
* hunger (desire for food)
    Synonym: gana
* famine, starvation

#### Derived terms

* afamar

#### Related terms

* famolenc

### Further reading

* “fam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fam”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “fam” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* fàm (ORB, narrow)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin famēs.

### Noun

fam f (plural fams) (ORB, broad)
* hunger

### References

* faim in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* fam in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## Galician
### Verb

fam
* (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of fazer

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pound.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fâm/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɸâŋ]

### Noun

fâm m (plural fàmā̀fàmai or fàmfàmai)
* pound (currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria)
* (colloquial) 2 naira.

## Karipúna Creole French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfam/

### Noun

fam
* woman
* wife

### See also

* uóm

### References

* Alfred W. Tobler (1987) Dicionário Crioulo Karipúna/Português Português/Crioulo Karípúna (in Karipúna Creole French), Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 8

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

From French femme (“woman”).

### Noun

fam
* woman

### References

* Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French femme.

### Noun

fam
* (derogatory) woman

### References

* Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

## Middle English
### Noun

fam
* Alternative form of fom

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan fam, from Latin famēs (“hunger”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Noun

fam m (uncountable)
* hunger

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* fǣm

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɑːm/

### Noun

fām n
* foam

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* fǣman
* fāmiġ

#### Descendants

* Middle English: fom, fam, fome, foom, foome
** English: foam
*** → Faroese: fómur
** Scots: fame, faim, faem
* → Faroese: fám

## Old French
### Noun

fam oblique singular, f (oblique plural fans, nominative singular fam, nominative plural fans)
* Alternative form of fame

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin famēs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fam/

### Noun

fam
* 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.

#### Descendants

* Occitan: fam

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

From Latin famēs.

### Noun

fam f (usually uncountable)
* (Puter) hunger

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vam/

### Noun

fam
* Soft mutation of mam.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Related to Persian فهم (fahm).

### Noun

fam
* intelligence