ham

Etymology 1
From, from , from , , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)   The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
 * 2)  A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.
 * 3)  Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.
 * 4) The back of the thigh.
 * 5)  Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
 * 1) The back of the thigh.
 * 2)  Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: knieboog
 * Esperanto: poplito
 * Faroese: knæsbót
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: sofraxe, xoga
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἰγνύα, κώληψ
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: 膝裏,, 膝窩
 * Latvian: gurns
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, knesbot, hombot
 * Nynorsk: knehase, knesbot, hombot
 * Old English: hamm
 * Persian:, چفتهٔ زانو
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid
 * Spanish:
 * West Frisian: hokse


 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: թամբ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: zangro, lunada, pernil
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κωλῆ, κωλήν
 * Irish: ceathrú, más
 * Latin: perna, petasō
 * Latvian: šķiņķis
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: puwit


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: هَام
 * Armenian: ազդրապուխտ, ,
 * Asturian: xamón
 * Azerbaijani: vetçina
 * Belarusian: вяндлі́на, шы́нка
 * Bikol Central: hamon
 * Bulgarian: шу́нка
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: hamon
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 火腿
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: mordhos hogh
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ŝinko
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: svínstjógv, svínatjógv
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: შაშხი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: κωλῆ, κωλήν
 * Hebrew:, שִׁינְקֵה
 * Hiligaynon: hamon
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: жамбас
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: perna
 * Latvian: šķiņķis
 * Ligurian: xambun, xambon
 * Limburgish: sjink
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: giambón
 * Luxembourgish: Ham
 * Macedonian: шунка
 * Maltese: perżuta
 * Maori: wāmu
 * Mongolian: утсан мах
 * Navajo: bisóodi bijáád
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skinke
 * Nynorsk: skinke
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шу̑нка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: šunka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: hemu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hamon
 * Tajik: ветчина
 * Taos: xomúnenemą
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: skin
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Waray-Waray: hamon
 * Welsh: ,
 * Yiddish: שינקע, וועטשינאַ


 * Galician: bestra, sofraxe, xoga
 * Greek:
 * Irish: ceathrú, más, leis
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sliasaid


 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: (2)
 * Mandarin:

Etymology 2
From.

Usage notes

 * Persists in many old place names, such as.

Etymology 3
, though it is generally agreed upon that it first appeared in print around the 1880s. At least four theories persist:
 * It came naturally from the word amateur. Deemed likely by Hendrickson (1997), but then the question would be why it took so long to pop up. He rejects the folk etymology of Cockney slang hamateur because it originated in American English.
 * From the play Hamlet, where the title character was often played poorly and/or in an exaggerated manner. Also deemed likely by Hendrickson, though he raises the issue that the term would have likely been around earlier if this were case.
 * From the minstrel's practice of using ham fat to remove heavy black makeup used during performances.
 * Shortened from, said to derive from the 1863 minstrel show song The Ham-fat Man. William and Mary Morris (1988) argue that it's not known whether the song inspired the term or the term inspired the song, but that they believe the latter is the case.

Noun

 * 1)  An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
 * 2)  An amateur radio operator.
 * 1)  An amateur radio operator.
 * 1)  An amateur radio operator.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * French: ,
 * German: ; Schmierenschauspieler
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: aisteoir áibhéileach
 * Japanese:, 大根役者
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: comicastro, comicastro,


 * Bulgarian: радиолюбител
 * Czech: radioamatér, radioamatérka
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ; ,
 * Greek: ραδιοερασιτέχνης
 * Indonesian: amatir radio
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: radioamador
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: radioamador, radioaficionado

Verb

 * 1)  To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

Translations

 * Czech: přehrávat
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: (sich) aufspielen
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  cured pork from the thigh of a swine

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) fishhook

Etymology
From, from , from , from , , , from.

Noun

 * 1) ; meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) we, us (exclusive)

Usage notes

 * ham is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
 * In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, ham can be used as a subject.
 * In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, ham can be used as a subject.

Verb

 * 1)  to die

Etymology 1
From, ,.

Noun

 * 1) slough, skin

Etymology 2
Older, from , the dative of. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  him:

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  cured pork from the thigh of a swine

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) I (1st person singular personal pronoun)

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
A pronunciation spelling of.

Usage notes
Usually used in the present or to form the perfect, though it may be seen in the infinitive as well. See also the note at.

Etymology 1
,, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) An enclosed pasture.

Etymology 4
From

Pronoun

 * 1) * c1225, Þe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene, ed. S. T. R. O. d'Ardenne, pp. 3-71.
 * [Juliana] custe ham coss os peis [Roy: acos of pes] alle as ha stoden.
 * [Juliana] custe ham coss os peis [Roy: acos of pes] alle as ha stoden.

Noun

 * 1) village

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water

Pronoun

 * 1) him third-person singular, masculine, objective
 * 2) it third-person singular, neuter, objective

Alternative forms

 * (Sylt)

Etymology 1
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) him

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) skin or slough

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) skin or slough

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) home
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"
 * "ang"

- Ða het se apostol ða bære settan, and cwæð, "Min Drihten, Hælend Crist! Arære ðe, Drusiana; aris, and ġecyrr hām, and gearca ús gereordunge on þinum hūse." Drusiana þa arás swilce of slæpe awreht, and, carfull be ðæs apostoles hæse, hām gewende.


 * 1) property, estate, farm
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"
 * "ang"

- ...and forġeaf sumne hām tō þǣre hālgan stōwe...


 * 1) village; community

Usage notes

 * In early Old English, the dative singular was always hām, not the expected form hāme.

Adverb

 * 1) home, homeward

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (Low 🇨🇬).

Etymology 3
From.

Etymology 4
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) covering
 * 2) garment, dress, gown; shirt

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) village

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) home

Noun

 * 1) work

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) harness

Etymology 2
.

Interjection

 * 1) woof, the sound a barking dog makes

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  water

Synonyms

 * àyîn

Etymology
A loan from.

Noun

 * 1) harness

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) raw

Adjective

 * 1) greedy
 * 2) eager; keen
 * 1) eager; keen

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  ham