jam

Etymology 1
First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Compare dialectal. Perhaps from, , of  origin; probably originally.

Noun

 * 1)  A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
 * 2)  A difficult situation.
 * 3)  A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
 * 4)  A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
 * 5)  An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
 * 6)  A song; a track.
 * 7)  An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
 * 8)  That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
 * 9)  A forceful dunk.
 * 10)  A play during which points can be scored.
 * 11)  Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
 * 12)  The tree, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
 * 13)  Luck.
 * 14)  balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
 * 15)  Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
 * 1)  An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
 * 2)  A song; a track.
 * 3)  An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
 * 4)  That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
 * 5)  A forceful dunk.
 * 6)  A play during which points can be scored.
 * 7)  Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
 * 8)  The tree, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
 * 9)  Luck.
 * 10)  balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
 * 11)  Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
 * 1)  Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
 * 2)  The tree, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
 * 3)  Luck.
 * 4)  balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
 * 5)  Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
 * 1)  balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
 * 2)  Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
 * 1)  Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
 * 1)  Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: konfyt, jam
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُرَبًّى
 * Egyptian Arabic: مربى
 * Hijazi Arabic: مُرَبَّى
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, riçal, , povidlo
 * Belarusian: джэм, варэ́нне, мармела́д, паві́дла
 * Bengali: জ্যাম
 * Bulgarian:, , джем
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 果占, 占
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: marmelade, syltetøj
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fruktaĵo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: frukt súlta
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: მურაბა, ჯემი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: varenja
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: джем, тосап
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: джем,
 * Lao: ກວນ
 * Latgalian: vuoreklis
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: ievārījums
 * Lithuanian: uogienė
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: џем, слатко
 * Malay:, , jelai
 * Maori: tiamu, hāma
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: жимсний чанамал, варень , жимсний ээдэн
 * Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠮᠢᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠴᠢᠨᠠᠮᠠᠯ, ᠸᠠᠷᠧᠨᠢ, ᠵᠢᠮᠢᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠡᠭᠡᠳᠡᠩ
 * Norman: g'lée
 * Northern Sami: meastu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: syltetøy, syltety
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: مربا
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Saanich: ĆÁM
 * Scottish Gaelic: silidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: џе̏м, пѐкмез, сла̀тко̄
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shuswap: tiq̓ústen
 * Sinhalese: ජෑම්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: marmelada, konfitira
 * Upper Sorbian: marmelada, konfitira
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: diyam
 * Tajik: джем, мураббо
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: mürepbe,, powidlo
 * Ukrainian: джем,, мармела́д, пови́дло
 * Urdu:, مربا
 * Uyghur: مۇراببا, ۋارىنا, ۋارىنە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: konfit
 * Welsh:, cyffaith
 * Yiddish: פּאָווידלע
 * Yup'ik: siliyaq


 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გაჭედვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Latgalian: īsasprīdīņs
 * Lithuanian: spūstis, susigrūdimas
 * Maori: purunga, kūkā
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: trengsel
 * Occitan: encombrament
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Shuswap: teqpqín
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: tagfa


 * Finnish: jamit
 * French: ,
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tautangitangi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: зохиомжлон хөгжимдөх
 * Portuguese: jam session
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: забивка
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: donkkaus
 * Maori: haukuru


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: knibe
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Norwegian: / trøbbel/ ´
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, brete
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh: picil, strach

Verb

 * 1) To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
 * 2) To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
 * 3) * 1779, George Colman, Farewell Epilogue, spoken at Wynnstay after the representation of Cymbeline and The Spanish Barber, 22 January, 1779, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 283,
 * Since the new post-horse tax, I dare engage
 * That some folks here have travell’d in the Stage:
 * Jamm’d in at midnight, in cold winter weather,
 * The crouded passengers are glew’d together.
 * 1) To render something unable to move.
 * 2) To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
 * 3) To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
 * 4)  To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
 * 5)  To dunk.
 * 6)   To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
 * 7) To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
 * 8)  To attempt to score points.
 * 9)  To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
 * 10)  To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
 * 11)  To be of high quality.
 * I love this song! This song jams!
 * 1)  To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
 * 2)  To dunk.
 * 3)   To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
 * 4) To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
 * 5)  To attempt to score points.
 * 6)  To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
 * 7)  To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
 * 8)  To be of high quality.
 * I love this song! This song jams!
 * 1)  To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
 * 2)  To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
 * 3)  To be of high quality.
 * I love this song! This song jams!
 * I love this song! This song jams!

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ganapiar, apillar, golpar,, trabincar
 * German:
 * Maori: kūkā
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Cebuano: pansak
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: escorxar
 * Maori: opuru
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , , , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (traffic, flow),  (of a gun)
 * Galician: encalfurnar,, atravancar, entorpar
 * German:
 * Maori: taipuru, kūkā
 * Polish:, zakorkować
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , , , (дорогу)


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شَوَّشَ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: ĵami
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Galician:, interferir
 * Georgian: ახშობს
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: plúch
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Persian: پارازیت فرستادن
 * Polish: zagłuszać
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Finnish: syöttää käsiä päin
 * Maori: haukuru


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: faire un
 * German: spontan musizieren,, gemeinsam improvisieren
 * Maori: tautangitangi
 * Romanian:
 * Swedish: jamma


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: yrittää tehdä pisteitä

Etymology 2
or, meaning "garment, robe;" see. Related to.

Noun

 * 1)  A kind of frock for children.

Etymology
.  The forms in  may derive from, whence also 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to be
 * 2)  to live, stay alive
 * 3) to be from, come from
 * 4) to support, agree with
 * 5)  to happen, take place, occur
 * 6)  there be
 * 1)  to live, stay alive
 * 2) to be from, come from
 * 3) to support, agree with
 * 4)  to happen, take place, occur
 * 5)  there be
 * 1) to be from, come from
 * 2) to support, agree with
 * 3)  to happen, take place, occur
 * 4)  there be
 * 1) to support, agree with
 * 2)  to happen, take place, occur
 * 3)  there be
 * 1)  to happen, take place, occur
 * 2)  there be
 * 1)  there be
 * 1)  there be

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) hour
 * 2) time

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to jam

Verb

 * 1)  to nab; to take without asking

Etymology
or, both likely of West African origin.

Noun

 * 1) yam any vine

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   congealed sweet mixture of conserved fruits

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adverb

 * 1) already, prior to some time

Noun

 * 1)  peace

Noun

 * 1) granary, storehouse

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hour Time period of sixty minutes
 * 2) clock instrument to measure or keep track of time
 * 3) time

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) hour Time period of sixty minutes
 * 2) clock instrument to measure or keep track of time
 * , particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something

Adverb

 * 1) already

Noun

 * 1) time
 * 2) hour
 * 3) clock

Pronoun

 * 1) * 2007, Jurga (Jurga Šeduikytė), Angelai
 * "lt"
 * "lt"

- Jo balti sparnai man tinka Jam savo šarvus dovanoju

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) hour Time period of sixty minutes
 * 2) clock instrument to measure or keep track of time

Etymology
From. Cognate with West Frisian jimme.

Pronoun

 * 1) you (plural)
 * 2) your (plural)

Noun

 * 1)  music session

Noun

 * 1) meow (sound of a cat)

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) addition, plus, total

Noun

 * 1) metal water pot

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  jam, fruit preserves