karam

See also: Karam, kaŗam, kárám, and kārām

English

Noun

karam

1. The tree Adina cordifolia.
   • 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 21:

     So Prince Earth-worm secured Prince Tortoies with chains and raised the earth on his back, and in a short time there was an island in the midst of the waters. Thakur Jiu then caused a karam tree to spring up, and at the foot of the karam tree he caused sirom grass to grow. He then caused dhobi grass to spring up, after which he covered the earth with all kinds of trees and herbs. In this manner the earth became firm and stable.

   • 1964, Victor Rosner, “The Marriage Ceremonies of the Telia Nagesia of Jashpur, India”, in Anthropos, volume 59, number 3:

     The bride is given a comb made locally of karam wood, bracelets, chawar, which is a braid of false hair, and a blouse

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay karam, Proto-Austronesian *kaɣəm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ram/
• Rhymes: -ram, -am, -m
• Hyphenation: ka‧ram

Verb

karam

1. to be wrecked at sea

Derived terms

• mengaram
• mengaramkan

Further reading

• “karam”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latvian

Noun

karam m

1. dative singular of karš

Verb

karam

1. first-person plural present indicative of kārt

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkaram]

Noun

karam

1. dative plural of kara

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

karam (Cyrillic spelling карам)

1. first-person singular present of karati

Turkish

Noun

karam

1. first-person singular possessive of kara

Usage notes

• When this word is pronounced, the stress is on the last syllable: karam. (The pronunciation with stress on the penultimate syllable, karam, means "I am [a(n)/the] land.")

Uzbek

Etymology 1

From Persian کرم (karam), from Ancient Greek κράμβη (krámbē, “cabbage”).

Noun

karam (plural karamlar)

1. cabbage

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic كَرَم (karam, “generosity”).

Noun

karam (plural karamlar)

1. grace, goodness

Yami

Noun

karam

1. mouse