fam

Abbreviations

• (family, term of endearment): Clipping of family
• (familiarization): Clipping of familiarization

• IPA^(key): /fæm/

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• Rhymes: -æm

fam (plural fams)

1. (informal) Clipping of family.

   I'm gonna visit the fam.

2. (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.

3. (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, 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.”

• AFM, AMF, FMA, MAF, MFA

fam (plural befam)

1. man (adult male human)

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfam]

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fam f (uncountable)

1. hunger (desire for food)

   Synonym: gana

2. famine, starvation

• afamar

• famolenc

• “fam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fam”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

fam

1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of fazer

Borrowed from English pound.

• IPA^(key): /fâm/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸâŋ]

fâm m (plural fàmā̀fàmai or fàmfàmai)

1. pound (currency used in the UK, obsolete in Nigeria)
2. (colloquial) 2 naira.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfam/

fam

1. woman
2. wife

• uóm

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

From French femme (“woman”).

fam

1. woman

• Albert Valdman, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole

From French femme.

fam

1. (derogatory) woman

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

fam

1. Alternative form of fom

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

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fam m (uncountable)

1. hunger

• fǣm

From Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

• IPA^(key): /fɑːm/

fām n

1. foam

• fǣman
• fāmiġ

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

fam oblique singular, f (oblique plural fans, nominative singular fam, nominative plural fans)

1. Alternative form of fame

From Latin famēs.

• IPA^(key): /fam/

fam

1. 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.

• Occitan: fam

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

From Latin famēs.

fam f (usually uncountable)

1. (Puter) hunger

• IPA^(key): /vam/

fam

1. Soft mutation of mam.

Related to Persian فهم (fahm).

fam

1. intelligence