gamme

Borrowed from Medieval Latin gamma. Doublet of gamma.

• IPA^(key): /ɡam/

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gamme f (plural gammes)

1. (music) musical scale

   Synonym: échelle

   faire ses gammes ― to play one's scales, to do one's scales

   En musique, une gamme est un ensemble de sons, appelés degrés, formant le cadre dans lequel se bâtit une œuvre musicale.

   In music, a scale is a set of sounds, called degrees, forming the framework in which a musical work is constructed.

2. range, gamut, series

   gamme de produits ― product base

   haut de gamme ― upscale, upmarket, high-end

   bas de gamme ― low-end

   entrée de gamme ― low-end

• → Persian: گام (gâm)

• “gamme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

gamme f pl

1. plural of gamma (“range, gamut; gamma”)

• Gemma, gemma

From Old English gamen.

gamme

1. Alternative form of game

From Old English gamenian.

gamme

1. Alternative form of gamen

Borrowed from English game.

gamme f (plural gammes)

1. (Jersey) game

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gamme m or f

1. (Jersey) plucky

• gamme f (dialectal)

gamme m (definite singular gammen, indefinite plural gammar, definite plural gammane)

1. A kind of Sami hut

gamme

1. a loud anger

• Jônain, Pierre. Dictionnaire du patois Saintongeais. 1869. Page 201.

Borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk gamme, from Old Norse gammi. Cognate to Elfdalian gamme (“protruding part of a roof”).

• IPA^(key): /²ɡamɛ/

gamme c

1. a small hut with walls out of turf or earth, formerly used by Sami nomads in northern Norway

• kåta

• gamme in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)