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Cham
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.
- 1 I am West-Country, contraction, obsolete
- 1 The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.
- 2 A town in Bavaria, Germany.
- 3 A town in Zug canton, Switzerland.
- 4 A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
- 5 An abugida used to write this language.
- 1 Archaic spelling of khan. alt-of, archaic
"And ſince we haue arriu’d in Scythia, Beſides rich preſents from the puiſant Cham, UUe haue his highneſſe letters to commaund Aide and aſſiſtance if we ſtand in need."
- 2 An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam. plural, plural-only
- 3 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).
- 4 An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
"Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the Cham sixty-four."
- 1 To chew. obsolete
"But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming, or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]"
Etymology
From French cham, from Ottoman Turkish خان (han) (see there for more).
See chap.
From Middle English icham, equivalent to ch- + am, from ich + am.
Borrowed from Eastern Cham ꨌꩌ
Borrowed from Eastern Cham ꨌꩌ
Borrowed from Eastern Cham ꨌꩌ
Borrowed from German Cham.
Borrowed from Switzerland German Cham.
Borrowed from Albanian Çam m.
From Hokkien 詹 (Chiam).
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