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stam

/stæm/

stam verb: to confound.

Verb

stam (third-person singular simple present stams, present participle stamming, simple past and past participle stammed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To confound.

Noun (1)

stam

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) Confusion.

Noun (2) capitalized: Stam

Stam (uncountable)

  1. (Judaism) collectively, the Jewish ritual scrolls, including holy scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzot

Forms of stam

third-person singular presentstams
present participlestamming
past participlestammed
paststammed

Origin of stam

Of unknown origin. Perhaps related to stammer.

From Hebrew סְתָ״ם (sta"m), acronym of סִפְרֵי קוֹדֶשׁ, תְּפִלִּין, וּמְזוּזוֹת (sifréi qodéš, t'filín um'zuzót).

Phrases with stam

Questions about stam

What does stam mean?
Stam means to confound.
What part of speech is stam?
Stam can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce stam?
Stam is pronounced /stæm/.
What is the past tense of stam?
The past tense of stam is stammed.

Words near stam in the dictionary

  1. stalworthness
  2. stalworths
  3. Stalybridge
  4. Stalzer
  5. Stalzers
  6. stam
  7. Stamand
  8. Stamands
  9. Stamant
  10. Stamants
  11. Stambaugh

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