lăm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lam"

Bahnar

Etymology

From Chamic. Compare Eastern Cham ꨕꨤꩌ (dalam).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lam/

Preposition

lăm

1. in, inside

   Synonym: tur

Chru

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *dalam, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.

Preposition

lăm

1. in, inside

References

Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change‎^[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 287

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ləm]

Verb

lăm

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of la

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• nhăm (northern Vietnam)

Etymology

Alteration of năm.

Pronunciation

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

Numeral

lăm (𠄻)

1. (only in compounds) five

   mười lăm

   fifteen

   hai (mươi) lăm

   twenty-five

Usage notes

• This form is only used in compounds to indicate numbers over ten that end with five, except for 05-ending numbers (such as 105, 2005). This is probably to avoid confusion with năm with the sense "year". For example:

  mười (“ten”) + năm (“five”) → mười lăm (“fifteen”)

  mười (“ten”) + năm (“year”) → mười năm (“ten years”)

• The variant nhăm is used in Northern Vietnam in numbers greater than 20.
• See also nói ngọng.