ham

See also Ham, HAM, Häm, häm, hám, and häm

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō , from Proto-Indo-European *kanam-, *knāmā (“thigh, shin”). Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Middle Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek  (knḗmé, “shinbone”). Compare gammon.

Pronunciation

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• enPR: hăm, IPA: /hæm/, X-SAMPA: /h{m/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

ham (plural hams)

1. (anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
2. (countable) The thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat.
3. (uncountable) The thigh of a hog cured for food.
4. The back of the thigh.
5. (Internet, informal) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam, or junk mail

Derived terms

• ham-fisted
• hambone
• hammy, hamstring

Translations

region back of the knee joint

• Dutch: knieboog (nl) m
• Finnish: polvitaive (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: knehase (nb) m, knesbot (nb) f, hombot (nb) f

  Nynorsk: knehase (nn) m, knesbot (nn) f, hombot (nn) f

• Russian: бедро (ru) (bedró) n, ляжка (ru) (ljážka) f

• Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid (gd) f
• Spanish: corva (es) f

thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat

• Czech: kýta (cs) f
• Estonian: sink (et)
• Finnish: paisti (fi)

• Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid (gd) f
• Tagalog: puwit (tl)

thigh of a hog cured for food

• Asturian: xamón (ast) m
• Belarusian: вяндліна (be) (vjandlína) f, шынка (be) (šýnka) f
• Catalan: pernil (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火腿 (cmn) (huǒtuǐ)

• Czech: šunka (cs) f
• Danish: skinke (da)
• Dutch: ham (nl) m, hesp (nl) f (Belgium)
• Estonian: sink (et)
• Finnish: kinkku (fi)
• French: jambon (fr) m
• Galician: xamón (gl) m
• German: Schinken (de) m
• Greek: χοιρομέρι (el) (choiroméri) n
• Hungarian: sonka (hu)
• Italian: prosciutto (it) m
• Japanese: ハム (ja) (hamu)
• Kazakh: жамбас (kk) (jambas)
• Korean: 햄 (ko) (haem)
• Maltese: perżuta (mt) f

• Navajo: bisóodi bijáád
• Persian: ژامبون (fa) (žâmbon)
• Polish: szynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: presunto (pt) m (Brazil), pernil (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: șuncă (ro) f
• Russian: окорок (ru) (ókorok) m, ветчина (ru) (vetčiná) f
• Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шунка (sh) f

  Roman: šunka (sh) f

• Slovak: šunka (sk) f
• Slovene: šunka (sl) f
• Spanish: jamón (es) m
• Swahili: hemu (sw)
• Swedish: skinka (sv) c
• Tagalog: hamon (tl)
• Taos: xomúnenemą
• Turkmen: skin (tk)
• Ukrainian: окорок (uk) (ókorok) m, шинка (uk) (šýnka) f

back of the thigh

• Greek: (of an animal) ιγνύς (el) (ignýs) f
• Russian: ветчина (ru) (v'etčiná) f

• Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid (gd) f

actor with an exaggerating style

• Greek: άσχετος (el) (áschetos) c
• Japanese: 大根 (ja) (だいこん, daikon), 大根役者 (ja) (だいこんやくしゃ, daikon yakusha)

• Polish: kabotyn (pl) m

ham radio operator

• Czech: radioamatér (cs) m, radioamatérka (cs) f
• Finnish: radioamatööri (fi)
• Greek: ραδιοερασιτέχνης (el) (radioerasitéchnis) m and f

• Italian: radioamatore (it) m
• Polish: radioamator (pl) m
• Russian: радиолюбитель (ru) (radioljubítelʹ) m

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• Mandarin: 火腿 (huǒ tuǐ)
• Ido: shinko

• Interlingua: gambon (2)
• Thai: หมู (th) (muu)

Etymology 2

From Old English hām.

Noun

ham (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Archaic spelling of home.

Usage notes

• Persists in many old place names, such as Buckingham.

References

• “ham” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Etymology 3

Shortened from hamfatter (“inferior actor”), said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man.

Noun

ham (plural hams)

1. An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
2. An amateur radio operator.

Related terms

• ham radio

Verb

ham (third-person singular simple present hams, present participle hamming, simple past and past participle hammed)

1. To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

Related terms

• ham it up

Anagrams

• HMA, mah, MHA

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

Latin hamus.

Noun

ham m (plural hams)

1. fishhook

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hamr.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ham/, [hɑmˀ]

Noun

ham c (singular definite hammen, plural indefinite hamme)

1. slough, skin

Derived terms

• fjederham c
• hamskifte n
• snogeham c
• svaneham c

Inflection

    Inflection of ham

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	ham	hammen	hamme	hammene
genitive	hams	hammens	hammes	hammenes

Etymology 2

See han.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ham/, [hɑm]

Pronoun

ham

1. (personal) objective case of han

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Inflection	Nominative	Accusative	Possessive	Reflexive	Reflexive possessive
Singular	First	common	jeg	mig	min
		neuter			mit
		plural			mine
	Second	common	du	dig	din
		neuter			dit
		plural			dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine	han	ham	hans	sig	sin
		feminine	hun	hende	hendes
		common	den	den	dens
		neuter	det	det	dets		sit
		plural					sine
Plural	First	—	vi	os	vores
		common			vor
		neuter			vort
		plural			vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres	sig

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

ham f (plural hammen, diminutive hammetje)

1. ham

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [haːmˠ], [hamˠ]

Noun

ham m

1. Mutated form of am.

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Middle English

Pronoun

ham

1. them

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Middle French

Noun

ham m (plural hams)

1. village

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

ham

1. him

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɑm/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hamō-. Cognate with Middle Dutch hamme (Dutch ham), Old High German hamma (dialectal German Hamm), Old Norse hǫm.

Noun

ham f

1. (anatomy) ham, inner knee

   Monegum men gescrincaþ his fet to his homme: with many men the feet shrink up to the knee. (Leechbook)

Descendants

• English ham

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hammaz. Cognate with Old Frisian ham, Middle Low German hamme (Low German Hamm).

Noun

ham m

1. enclosure, especially an enclosed pasture or dwelling

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɑːm/

Etymology 3

From Proto-Germanic *haimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kōim- (“village”), *ḱóymos, *(t)ḱoimos. Cognate with Old Frisian hām (West Frisian hiem), Old Saxon hēm, Frankish *haim (Dutch heem), Old High German heim (German Heim), Old Norse heimr (Swedish hem, Danish hjem), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃. The Indo-European root is also the source of Greek κωμη, Old Irish cóim, Lithuanian šeimà, Russian семья.

Noun

hām m

1. home, house; property, estate

   Hælend com to Lazares ham: the Saviour came to the home of Lazarus.

Declension

    Declension of ham (strong a-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	hām	hāmas
accusative	hām	hāmas
genitive	hāmes	hāma
dative	hāme	hāmum

Descendants

• Middle English: home, hoom, hom, ham
  • English: home
  • Northumbrian and Scots: hame

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Old French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, probably Frankish

Noun

ham m (oblique plural hams, nominative singular hams, nominative plural ham)

1. village

Derived terms

• hamelet

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Rohingya

Noun

ham

1. work

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Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

ham!

1. woof, the sound a barking dog makes

See also

• hau

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Turkish

Etymology

From Persian خام (xâm).

Adjective

ham

1. raw