English Online Dictionary. What means pam? What does pam mean?
Translingual
Symbol
pam
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kapampangan.
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Etymology 1
Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.
Noun
pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)
- The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
- A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.
Etymology 2
Probably alteration of panorama.
Noun
pam (plural pams)
- (dated, photography) A panorama.
Verb
pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)
- (dated, photography) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
See also
- pam off
Etymology 3
Generic use of PAM.
Noun
pam
- (US) Cooking spray.
Etymology 4
From Spanish palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and palmo.
Noun
pam (plural pams)
- (historical, dated) Alternative form of palmo (“traditional Spanish and Portuguese units of measure”).
Anagrams
- APM, map, MAP, amp, pma, AMP, PMA, MPA, p.m.a.
Amanab
Noun
pam
- bone spoon
Catalan
Alternative forms
- palma
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan palm, from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm and palma. Cognate with Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish palmo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpam]
Noun
pam m (plural pams)
- span, handspan, an informal unit of measure based on a hand's width
- (historical) a traditional unit of length that is the 1 / 8 part of a cana; ~20 cm
- Holonym: cana
See also
- forc
References
- “pam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pam”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “pam” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pam” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑm/, [ˈpɑ̝m]
- Rhymes: -ɑm
- Hyphenation(key): pam
Interjection
pam!
- bam!
- bang!
Galician
Noun
pam m (plural pans, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of pan
References
- “pam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Iban
Etymology
Borrowed from English pump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pam/
Noun
pam
- pump
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pam/
- Hyphenation: pam
Noun
pam
- abbreviation of pengamanan (“safing; securing; security”).
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English pump.
Noun
pam
- pump
- (anatomy) heart
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English palm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pam/
Noun
pam (nominative plural pams)
- palm, palm tree
Declension
Welsh
Alternative forms
- paham (literary)
Etymology
pa (“what”) + am (“for”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pam/
Adverb
pam
- why