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yarm

/jɑː(ɹ)m/

yarm verb: to cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.

Verb

yarm (third-person singular simple present yarms, present participle yarming, simple past and past participle yarmed)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
  2. (UK, dialectal) To scold; grumble.

Noun

yarm (plural yarms)

  1. (UK, dialectal) An outcry; noise.

Proper noun capitalized: Yarm

IPA/ˈjɑː(ɹ)m/

Yarm

  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4112).

Forms of yarm

Verb
third-person singular presentyarms
present participleyarming
past participleyarmed
pastyarmed
Noun
pluralyarms

Origin of yarm

From Middle English ȝarmen, ȝermen, from Old English ġyrman, ġierman (“to cry, mourn, cry out, roar, lament”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *jarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *jarmijaną, *jarmōną (“to bellow, bleat”). Cognate with Scots yirm (“to whine, wail”), dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”). Compare Albanian jerm (“to rave, be delirious”). Compare English yammer.

From Middle English ȝarm, from ȝarmen.

Words that rhyme with yarm

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Questions about yarm

What does yarm mean?
Yarm means to cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
What part of speech is yarm?
Yarm can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce yarm?
Yarm is pronounced /jɑː(ɹ)m/.
What is the past tense of yarm?
The past tense of yarm is yarmed.

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