# spam
## English
### Alternative forms

* Spam, SPAM

### Etymology

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspæm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* also (æ-tensing) IPA: [ˈspeəm]
* Rhymes: -æm

### Noun

spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)
* (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
    Synonym: junk mail
    Antonym: ham
    Coordinate term: bacn
    I get far too much spam.
    I received 58 spams yesterday.
** 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
* (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
** Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)
    An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.
* (Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
* (Internet) Ellipsis of spam account.
* A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.

#### Hyponyms

* blogspam
* link spam
* log spam
* referrer spam
* social spam
* spam killer
* spam musubi
* spam relay

#### Meronyms

* e-mail
* email

#### Derived terms

* ghost spam
* referral spam
* snowshoe spam
* spambot
* spamdexing
* spam in a can
* spammer
* spamming
* spammy
* spamsilog
* spamvertisement
* spamvertiser
* spamvertising
* spamvertizement

#### Translations

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### Verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)
* (intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
* (transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
* (transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
* (transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.
    Stop spamming that special attack!
    Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

#### Translations
### See also

* Wikipedia article on spamming
* Official SPAM home page

### References

* ↑ “What does the SPAM brand name mean?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2013 July 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 14 October 2013

### Anagrams

* AMPS, APMs, MAPs, MPAs, amps, maps, pams, sAMP, samp

## Danish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English spam.

#### Noun

spam (genitive spams)
* (computing, Internet) Spam.

### Etymology 2

See spamme.

#### Verb

spam
* imperative of spamme

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* (Belgium) IPA: /spɑm/
* (Netherlands) IPA: /spɛm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: spam

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English spam.

#### Noun

spam m (uncountable)
* spam (undesired electronic content)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

spam
* inflection of spammen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spam/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

spam m (plural spams)
* spam (meat)
* (computing, Internet) spam

#### Synonyms

* (unsolicited email): pourriel, courriel indésirable

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈspɛm]
* Rhymes: -ɛm

### Noun

spam (plural spamek)
* (computing, Internet) spam

#### Declension
## Interlingua
### Noun

spam (plural spams)
* (computing, Internet) spam

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English spam.

### Noun

spam m (invariable)
* (Internet) spam

#### Related terms

* spamming

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspam/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -am
* Syllabification: spam

### Noun

spam m inan
* (computing, Internet) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)

#### Derived terms

* spamować

#### Related terms

* spamer

### Further reading

* spam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* spam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈpɐ̃/
* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈpɐ̃/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃˈpɐ̃/

### Noun

spam m (uncountable)
* (computing, Internet) spam

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspam/
* Rhymes: -am

### Noun

spam n (plural spamuri)
* (computing, Internet) spam

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɛ́ːm/

### Noun

spȃm m inan
* (Internet) spam (unwanted messages)

#### Alternative forms

* spȇm

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspam/ [ˈspãm], /esˈpam/ [esˈpãm]
* Rhymes: -am
* Syllabification: spam

### Noun

spam m (plural spams)
* (computing) spam
    Synonym: correo basura

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

#### Related terms

* espamear

### Further reading

* “spam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “spam”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam. Earliest attested in 1997.

### Noun

spam n
* spam (unsolicited electronic messages)
    Synonym: skräppost

#### Derived terms

* spammare
* spamfilter

### References

* spam in Svensk ordbok (SO)

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [spam]
* Hyphenation: spam

### Noun

spam (definite accusative spamı, plural spamlar)
* (computing, Internet) spam

#### Usage notes

As the word starts with two consonants, some Turkish people will have difficulties to spell it correctly. It may be spelled also sıpam.

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
spam
spamlar
definite accusative
spamı
spamları
dative
spama
spamlara
locative
spamda
spamlarda
ablative
spamdan
spamlardan
genitive
spamın
spamların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
spamım
spamlarım
2nd singular
spamın
spamların
3rd singular
spamı
spamları
1st plural
spamımız
spamlarımız
2nd plural
spamınız
spamlarınız
3rd plural
spamları
spamları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
spamımı
spamlarımı
2nd singular
spamını
spamlarını
3rd singular
spamını
spamlarını
1st plural
spamımızı
spamlarımızı
2nd plural
spamınızı
spamlarınızı
3rd plural
spamlarını
spamlarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
spamıma
spamlarıma
2nd singular
spamına
spamlarına
3rd singular
spamına
spamlarına
1st plural
spamımıza
spamlarımıza
2nd plural
spamınıza
spamlarınıza
3rd plural
spamlarına
spamlarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
spamımda
spamlarımda
2nd singular
spamında
spamlarında
3rd singular
spamında
spamlarında
1st plural
spamımızda
spamlarımızda
2nd plural
spamınızda
spamlarınızda
3rd plural
spamlarında
spamlarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
spamımdan
spamlarımdan
2nd singular
spamından
spamlarından
3rd singular
spamından
spamlarından
1st plural
spamımızdan
spamlarımızdan
2nd plural
spamınızdan
spamlarınızdan
3rd plural
spamlarından
spamlarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
spamımın
spamlarımın
2nd singular
spamının
spamlarının
3rd singular
spamının
spamlarının
1st plural
spamımızın
spamlarımızın
2nd plural
spamınızın
spamlarınızın
3rd plural
spamlarının
spamlarının :

#### Synonyms

* yığın mesaj

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English spam.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [spam˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [spam˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [spam˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: xpăm

### Noun

spam
* (computing, Internet) spam