iamb

English

Etymology

From French iambe in the mid-1800s, from Latin iambus, from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos). Displaced iambus which shares the same classical origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪəm/, /ˈaɪˌæm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪˌæm/

Noun

iamb (plural iambs)

1. A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Synonyms

• iambus, jambus

Translations

a metrical foot

• Bulgarian: ямб m (jamb)
• Catalan: iambe (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抑揚格 (zh), 抑扬格 (zh) (yìyánggé)

• Danish: jambe (da) c
• Faroese: øvutur tvíliður m
• Finnish: jambi (fi)
• French: ïambe (fr) m
• Galician: iambo m
• German: Jambus (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἴαμβος m (íambos)

• Hungarian: jambus
• Irish: iambus m

• Italian: giambo (it) m
• Japanese: アイアンブ (aianbu)
• Latin: iambus m
• Malay: iambus
• Norwegian: jambe (no) m
• Polish: jamb (pl) m
• Portuguese: iambo m
• Russian: ямб (ru) m (jamb)
• Serbo-Croatian: jȁmb (sh) m, ја̏мб m
• Slovak: jamb m
• Spanish: yambo (es) m
• Swedish: jamb (sv) c

See also

• trochee

Anagrams

• ambi-, bami, bima, imba