iamb

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪəm/, /ˈaɪˌæm/

• Audio (US):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪˌæm/

Noun

iamb (plural iambs)

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

Synonyms

• iambus, jambus

Derived terms

• diiamb
• iambist
• iambize
• limping iamb

Translations

a metrical foot

• Armenian: յամբ (hy) (yamb)
• Belarusian: ямб m (jamb)
• Bulgarian: ямб m (jamb)
• Catalan: iambe (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抑揚格 / 抑扬格 (zh) (yìyánggé)

• Czech: jamb (cs) m
• Danish: jambe (da) c
• Dutch: jambe (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: jambo (eo)
• Estonian: jamb (et)
• Faroese: øvutur tvíliður m
• Finnish: jambi (fi)
• French: ïambe (fr) m
• Galician: iambo m
• Georgian: იამბი (iambi)
• German: Jambus (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἴαμβος m (íambos)

• Hungarian: jambus (hu)
• Irish: iambus m
• Italian: giambo (it) m
• Japanese: アイアンブ (aianbu)
• Latin: ïambus m
• Latvian: jambs m
• Lithuanian: jámbas m
• Malay: iambus
• Norwegian: jambe (no) m
• Occitan: iambe m
• Polish: jamb (pl) m
• Portuguese: iambo m
• Romanian: iamb (ro) m
• Russian: ямб (ru) m (jamb)
• Serbo-Croatian: jȁmb (sh) m, ја̏мб m
• Slovak: jamb m
• Spanish: yambo (es) m
• Swedish: jamb (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ямб (uk) m (jamb)

See also

• trochee

Anagrams

• ambi-, bami, bima, imba

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ïambe, from Latin ïambus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jamb/

Noun

iamb m (plural iambi)

1. (prosody) iamb

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	iamb	iambul		iambi	iambii
genitive-dative	iamb	iambului		iambi	iambilor
vocative	iambule			iambilor

Further reading

• “iamb”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026