Cham

 

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Cham people

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• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Cham pl (plural only)

1. An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Cham

1. The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.
2. An abugida used to write this language.

Cham

1. Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.

Western Cham

• ISO 639-3 code cja (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Western Cham, cja  ⁠
• Wiktionary's coverage of Western Cham terms

Eastern Cham

• ISO 639-3 code cjm (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Eastern Cham, cjm  ⁠
• Wiktionary's coverage of Eastern Cham terms

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Cham, Germany

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From German Cham.

Cham

1. A town in Bavaria, Germany.

 

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Cham, Switzerland

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From Switzerland German Cham.

Cham

1. A town in Zug canton, Switzerland.

From Albanian Çam m.

 

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Cham Albanians

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Cham (plural Chams)

1. an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).^[1][2][3][4]

• Tsam, Tsams
• Albanocham
• Albanophone
• (derogatory) Turco-Cham
• (derogatory) Turco-Albanian

• Chameria
• Albanian

From Hokkien 詹 (Chiam).

Cham

1. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

• ACMH, HAMC, HMAC, Mach, Mach., mach.

See cham.

• IPA^(key): /tʃam/

• Audio:

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Cham m (plural Cham or Chams, feminine Cham)

1. A Cham person

Cham m pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of Chams

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

 

German Wikipedia has articles on:

Cham (Oberpfalz) and Landkreis Cham

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After the Chamb, a nearby river, itself from Gaulish *Kambos, perhaps meaning “bend” or “curvature”.

• IPA^(key): /kaːm/

Cham n (proper noun, genitive Chams or (optionally with an article) Cham)

2. Cham (a town and rural district of Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany)

1. Chamer - relating to Cham

   Chamer - Resident in Cham

   Chamauer - relating to Cham

   Chamauer - Resident in Cham

 

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Cham ZG

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From a Celtic word meaning “village”.

• IPA^(key): [xaːm]

Cham n (proper noun, genitive Chams or (optionally with an article) Cham)

2. Cham (a town in Zug canton, Switzerland)

• Chāmus

From Ancient Greek Χάμ (Khám).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʰaːm/, [kʰäːm]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kam/, [käm]

Chām m sg (indeclinable)

1. a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Chāmus

Indeclinable noun, singular only.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈxam/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈxam/

Cham m pers (possessive adjective Chamóv)

1. a male given name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Cham”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Cham

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Learned borrowing from Hebrew חָם (Ḥām).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Cham
• Homophone: cham

Cham m pers

1. (biblical) Ham (son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem)

• Cham in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Hokkien 詹 (Chiam).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/ [ˈt͡ʃam]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈtsam/ [ˈt̪sam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Cham

Cham (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜋ᜔)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien