cám

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kjam (“cold, snow, ice”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕam/, [tɕæ̰m]

cám

1. cold

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕam/

cám

1. classifier for long and small objects, like a sword

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

From Portuguese cão.

• IPA^(key): /kaŋ/

cám

1. dog

   Synonym: cachôro

   ferâ cám ― to swindle (literally, “to deceive dog”)

   rópa qui sai di bóca di cám ― wrinkled dress (literally, “a dress that has come from a dog's mouth”)

• cam-cám (“arched, bow-legged”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːm˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kaːm˦˥]

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːmʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *skaamʔ (Shorto). Cognate with Pacoh acam, Bolyu qam⁵³, Mon ကာံ (kam), Riang kʰɑm¹.

cám • (感, 𥽇, 𥼲)

1. bran
2. pig slop; pigswill; hogwash

   Cám lợn chẳng có gì phức tạp. Lợn là loài ăn tạp, cái gì cũng ăn.

   There's nothing complicated about pigswill. They're omnivores, they eat anything.

   Cho cổ đồ thừa để cổ nấu cám heo.

   Give her the leftovers so she can cook some pigswill.

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 感 (SV: cảm).

cám • (感)

1. (only in compounds) to be moved with compassion; to feel pity

• mác