L amとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 lamen, lemen, from 古期英語 lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

別の表記

• lamm

動詞

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

1. (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
   • 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102,

     An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998, Chapter:

     They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]

2. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
   • 1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4:

     [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     […] and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.

名詞

lam (plural lams)

1. (slang) A flight or escape.

   on the lam

派生語

関連する語

• lame

語源 2

From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).

名詞

lam (plural lams)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005), “lam”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1180.

参考

• lam chau

アナグラム

• ALM, AML, M.L.A., MLA, Mal, Mal., alm, mal, mal-

発音

• IPA: /lɑːm/

名詞

lām n

1. clay, loam

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生した語

• English: loam