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kam

kam adjective: crooked, awry.

Adjective

kam (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Crooked, awry.
    • [Agrippa] Mene[nius Lanatus]. […] And what is left, to looſe it by his Countrey, / Were to vs all that doo’t, and ſuffer it / A brand to th’end a’th World. / [Lucius] Sicin[ius Vellutus]. This is cleane kamme. / [Junius] Brut[us]. Meerely awry: / When he did loue his Country, it honour’d him.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Noun capitalized: KAM

KAM (plural KAMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of key account manager, an account manager with overall responsibility for a customer relationship.

Proper noun capitalized: KAM

KAM

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem.
    • Notice that a wandering set has empty intersection with the set of KAM tori […]2019, Laurent Lazzarini, Jean-Pierre Marco, David Sauzin, Measure and Capacity of Wandering Domains in Gevrey Near-integrable Exact Symplectic Systems, page 19

kam meaning in Bengali, Punjabi and Odia

kam in Bengali

কাম

kam in Punjabi

ਕਾਮ

kam in Odia

କାମ୍

Forms of kam

pluralKAMs

Origin of kam

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.

Phrases with kam

Questions about kam

What does kam mean?
Kam means crooked, awry.
What is kam in Bengali?
Kam in Bengali is কাম. See Kam meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is kam?
Kam can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near kam in the dictionary

  1. kalyptrae
  2. kalyptras
  3. Kalyuzhny
  4. Kalyuzhnyi
  5. Kalyuzhnyy
  6. kam
  7. Kam Mueang
  8. Kam Tin
  9. kama
  10. Kama Sutra
  11. kamaaina

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kam (page history and authors); KAM (page history and authors); kam (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kam (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kam (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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