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{{also|femme|FEM|fém|fem.|fem-}}
==English==

===Etymology===
{{clipping|en|feminine}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/fɛm/}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-fem.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛm|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|LGBTQ|uncommon}} {{synonym of|en|femme}}
#: {{ant|en|butch}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Madeline D. Davis|title=Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317663973
|passage=Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and '''fems''' in an earlier period.}}
# {{lb|en|colloquial|sometimes|pejorative}} A [[feminine]] or [[effeminate]] person.
#* '''2014''', D Shuckerow, ''Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr'', quoting someone on Grindr:
#*: "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or '''fems'''. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2018|author=Luis Menéndez-Antuña|title=Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351392495
|passage=[...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, '''fems''' for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars,&nbsp;...}}

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# {{lb|en|colloquial}} [[feminine|Feminine]], [[effeminate]].
#: {{ant|en|masc}}
# {{lb|en|LGBTQ}} {{synonym of|en|femme}}
#: {{ant|en|butch}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Cameron McCarthy|title=Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy|page=79|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=9780820486826
|passage=Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and '''fem''' lesbians, {{...|nonheterosexist straights, drag queens and kings made visible one vibrant act of political and communal vibrant act of political and communal commitment, shaking old stereotypes about the ''uomo mediterraneo'' and the ''donna romana''.}}}}

===Derived terms===
* {{l|en|femboy}} (a feminine male)
* {{l|en|fem lib}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=efm|EFM|EMF|MEF|emf}}

==Catalan==

===Etymology 1===
{{root|ca|ine-pro|*dʰewh₂-}}
{{inh+|ca|la|fimum}}.

====Pronunciation====
* {{ca-IPA|é}}

====Noun====
{{ca-noun|m}}

# [[dung]]
# {{lb|ca|chiefly|in the plural}} [[manure]] {{gloss|animal excrement used as fertilizer}}
# {{lb|ca|in the plural|especially|Balearics}} [[rubbish]]
#: {{syn|ca|escombraries}}

=====Related terms=====
{{der3|ca|femar|femer|femejar|femta}}

===Etymology 2===
{{nonlemma}}

====Alternative forms====
* {{alt|ca|feim|q1=Balearic|pos1=indicative|facem|pos2=subjunctive, imperative}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{ca-IPA|ê}}

====Verb====
{{head|ca|verb form}}

# {{ca-verb form of|fer}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:ca:IEC2}}
* {{R:ca:GDLC}}
* {{R:ca:DNV}}
* {{R:ca:DCVB}}

==Danish==
{{cardinalbox|da|4|5|6|fire|seks|ord=femte}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|da|non|fimm}}, from {{der|da|gem-pro|*fimf}}, from {{der|da|ine-pro|*pénkʷe||five}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|da|[ˈfɛmˀ]}}

===Numeral===
{{head|da|numeral}}

# {{cln|da|cardinal numbers}} [[five]]

==Elfdalian==
{{cardinalbox|ovd|4|5|6|fyra|sjäks|ord=femt}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|ovd|non|fimm}}, from {{der|ovd|gem-pro|*fimf}}. Cognate with {{cog|sv|fem}}.

===Numeral===
{{head|ovd|numeral}}

# [[five]]

{{cln|ovd|cardinal numbers}}

==French==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|fr|en|femme}}, {{m|en|fem}} (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with {{cog|fr|femme||woman}}). {{cog|en|fem}} is itself from {{der|fr|fr|femme}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|f}}

# a [[femme]] {{gl|feminine queer woman}} {{q|contrast {{m|fr|butch}}}}
#* {{quote-book|fr|year=2007|author=w:Wendy Delorme|title=Quatrième génération|publisher=Bernard Grasset|pages=23–24|text=Pour faire simple, une '''fem''' (prononcer « faime ») c'est une gouine qui n'a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. {{...}} On confond parfois les '''fems''' avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. {{...}} Les '''fems''' ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n'est pas un passe-droit pour d'intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.}}

{{C|fr|LGBTQ|Female people}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==
{{cardinalbox|nb|4|5|6|fire|seks|ord=femte}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|nb|non|fimm||five}}, from {{der|nb|gem-pro|*fimf}}, ultimately from ''*pémpe'', variant of {{der|nb|ine-pro|*pénkʷe}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nb|/fɛm/}}

===Numeral===
{{head|nb|numeral}}

# {{cln|nb|cardinal numbers}} [[five]]

====Derived terms====
{{col3-u|nb
|femdel
|femdoble
|femkamp
|femkant
|femsifret
|tjuefem
}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|nb|femte}}

===References===
* {{R:The Bokmål Dictionary}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==
{{cardinalbox|nn|4|5|6|fire|seks|ord=femte}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|nn|non|fimm||five}}.

===Numeral===
{{head|nn|numeral}}

# {{cln|nn|cardinal numbers}} [[five]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|nn|femdel}}
* {{l|nn|femkamp}}
* {{l|nn|femkant}}
* {{l|nn|tjuefem}}

===References===
* {{R:The Nynorsk Dictionary}}

==Romansch==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|rm|fim||Rumantsch Grischun}}
* {{alt|rm|füm||Puter|Vallader}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|rm|la|fūmus}}.

===Noun===
{{head|rm|noun|g=m}}

# {{lb|rm|Sursilvan|Sutsilvan|Surmiran}} [[smoke]]

==Swedish==
{{number box|sv|5}}

===Etymology===
{{root|sv|ine-pro|*pénkʷe}}
From {{der|sv|non|fimm||five}}, from {{der|sv|gem-pro|*fimf}}, ultimately from ''*pémpe'', variant of {{der|sv|ine-pro|*pénkʷe}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|sv|/fɛm/}}
* {{audio|sv|sv-fem.ogg}}

===Numeral===
{{head|sv|numeral}}

# {{cln|sv|cardinal numbers}} [[five]]

====Coordinate terms====
{{sv-cardinal}}

====Related terms====
{{rel4|sv
|femaktare
|femaktsdrama
|fembarnsfamilj
|femcylindrig
|femdagarsvecka
|femdraget
|femdubbel
|femdubbla
|femdubbling
|femdygnsperiod
|femdygnsprognos
|femdörrarsbil
|femetta
|femfaldig
|femfemma
|femfilig
|femfingerört
|femfotad
|femgradig
|femhundra
|femhundrade
|femhundralapp
|femhundratalet
|femhundring
|femhörning
|femkamp
|femkampare
|femkant
|femkantig
|femkort
|femkrona
|femkronorsmynt
|femkronorssedel
|femling
|femma
|femmastad
|femmil
|femmilslopp
|femminutersperiod
|femmänning
|femprocentig
|femroddare
|femrummare
|femrums
|femrumslägenhet
|femsetare
|femsetsmatch
|femsiffrig
|femsitsig
|femsnåret
|femspaltig
|femstjärnig
|femsträngad
|femstämmig
|femte
|femtedel
|femteklassare
|femtekolonn
|femteplats
|femti
|femtiden
|femtio
|femton
|femtusen
|femtusende
|femtåig
|femudd
|femuddig
|femudding
|femvåningshus
|femväxlad
|femårig
|femåring
|femårsjubileum
|femårsperiod
|femårsplan
|femårsåldern
|femöring}}

====See also====
* {{l|sv|noll}}, {{l|sv|ett}}, {{l|sv|två}}, {{l|sv|tre}}, {{l|sv|fyra}}, {{l|sv|fem}}, {{l|sv|sex}}, {{l|sv|sju}}, {{l|sv|åtta}}, {{l|sv|nio}}, {{l|sv|tio}}, {{l|sv|elva}}, {{l|sv|tolv}}

===References===
* {{R:svenska.se|so}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saol}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saob}}

==Volapük==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|vo|en|fermentation}}.

===Noun===
{{vo-noun}}

# [[fermentation]]

====Declension====
{{vo-decl-noun}}