քամ

• քամի (kʻami)

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷm̥- (“to rumple, to cram, to stuff”). Cognate with Lithuanian kamúoti (“to torment”), kim̃šti (“to cram”).

քամ • (kʻam)

1. the product of squeezing or pressing out (e.g. juice, gravy, jelly)
2. the remnants of a flood

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “քամ”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “քամ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “քամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press