pam

See also: Pam, PAM, päm, and рат

English

Etymology 1

Probably short for French Pamphile (“a given name”), special use of man's name.

Noun

pam (countable and uncountable, plural pams)

1. The jack of clubs in loo played with hands of 5 cards.
2. A card game, similar to napoleon, in which the jack of clubs is the highest trump.

Etymology 2

Probably alteration of panorama.

Verb

pam (third-person singular simple present pams, present participle pamming, simple past and past participle pammed)

1. (obsolete) To pan a camera in order to show a panorama.
   • 1918, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, ‎Frank Crane, Current Opinion - Volume 64, page 331:

     In this case the field was laid out in segments, and after the camera had been pammed about ten degrees it was stopped and the whole outfit moved over into the next segment, and so on round for ninety degrees;

   • 1918, Rob Wagner, Film Folk:

     The camera man, in turn, when he had filmed the accident, pammed — the outrageous word "pam" means panorama — immediately to the sheriff in the hope that he would shoot.

   • 1921, Arthur Benjamin Reeve, The Film Mystery, page 347:

     At one time he ordered a panorama effect, in which the cameras “pammed,” swept from one side to the other, giving a succession of faces at close range.

   • 1925, Bell Laboratories Record - Volumes 1-2:

     The mechanism for taking the pictures with these markers on the original film and record can not be operated in quite so simple a manner, since the camera must be left free to be “pammed"—that is, moved about on its tripod to change the field of view.

   • 1932, Educational Screen - Volumes 11-12, page 141:

     The institution is "pammed" from a nearby hill-top, followed by close-ups of the various buildings.

   • 1947, The SAE Journal - Volume 55, page 46:

     This equipment has a distance range of 12,000 feet, and a height range of 750 feet and b, one camera is located 1500 feet from the runway and is "pammed" to follow the airplane.

See also

• pam off

Anagrams

• AMP, APM, MAP, MPA, amp, map, p.m.a., pma

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Amanab

Noun

pam

1. bone spoon

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Catalan

Etymology

From older palm, from , from Latin palmus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpam]

Noun

pam m (plural pams)

1. span, handspan

Related terms

• palma

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Finnish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

pam!

1. bam! bang!

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English pump.

Noun

pam

1. pump
2. (anatomy) heart

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English palm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pam/

Noun

pam (nominative plural pams)

1. palm, palm tree

Declension

declension of pam

	singular	plural
nominative	pam	pams
genitive	pama	pamas
dative	pame	pames
accusative	pami	pamis
vocative 1	o pam!	o pams!
predicative 2	pamu	pamus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Welsh

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• paham (literary)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pam/

Adverb

pam

1. why

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Zou

Noun

pam

1. swelling

See also

• pamme

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf