جام

Borrowed from Persian جام (jâm).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaːm/

جَام • (jām) m (plural جَامَات (jāmāt) or جُوم (jūm) or أَجْوَام (ʔajwām))

1. cup, bowl
2. tray, platter

• Gacek, Adam (2008) The Arabic Manuscript Tradition: A Glossary of Technical Terms, →ISBN
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “جام”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

جام (jām)

1. mirror

From Persian جام (jâm).

جام (jām) m

1. glass, pane

Borrowed from Persian جام (jâm, “glass, pane”).

جام • (cam)

1. glass, an amorphous and often transparent substance

   Synonym: صرچه (sırça)

2. cup, glass, beaker, stoop, a vessel made of glass

   Synonyms: بارداق (bardak), ساغراق (saġrak) (glass)

3. piece of glass applied to any particular purpose, as a watchglass, etc.
4. integrated sheet of glass such as a window-pane, window-sash or window-valve, a bull's-eye of glass in a vault or dome etc.

جام • (cam)

1. of glass, glassy, vitreous

   Synonym: صرچه (sırça)

• Turkish: cam
• → Albanian: xham
• → Armenian: ճամ (čam), ջամ (ǰam)
• → Aromanian: agiame, giame
• → Bulgarian: джам (džam)
• → Georgian: ჯამი (ǯami)
• → Greek: τζάμι (tzámi)
• → Laz: ჯამი (cami), ჟამი (jami) — Ghvant, ნჯამი (ncami) — Vitse–Arkabi
• → Macedonian: џам (džam)
• → Romanian: geam
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: џа̏м

  Latin script: džȁm

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 745
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جام”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 177a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 430
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Vitrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1775
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1560
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “25. AǦAME sb. f. pl. aǧeń i aǧemurǐ; ǦAME”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[5], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 75
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 636

From Persian جام (jâm).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑm/

جام • (jâm) m

1. cup, goblet

From Middle Persian [script needed] (ǰām, “glass”). Related to Avestan 𐬫𐬀𐬨𐬀 (yama, “glass”).^[1][2]

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جام • (jâm) (plural جام‌ها (jâm-hâ))

1. cup
2. glass, pane

• → Arabic: جام (jām, “cup, bowl, plate”)
• → Gulf Arabic: جام (jām), جامة (jāma, “motorvehicle window”)
• → Iraqi Arabic: جام (jām)
• → Bengali: জাম (jam)
• → Gujarati: જામ (jām)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: जाम (jām)

  Urdu: جام (jâm)

• → Pashto: جام (jâm)
• → Ottoman Turkish: جام (cam)
  • Turkish: cam
  • → Albanian: xham
  • → Armenian: ճամ (čam), ջամ (ǰam)
  • → Aromanian: agiame, giame
  • → Bulgarian: джам (džam)
  • → Georgian: ჯამი (ǯami)
  • → Greek: τζάμι (tzámi)
  • → Laz: ჯამი (cami), ჟამი (jami) — Ghvant, ნჯამი (ncami) — Vitse–Arkabi
  • → Macedonian: џам (džam)
  • → Romanian: geam
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: џа̏м

    Latin script: džȁm

• Hassuri, Ali (1983) “Two Middle Persian Words”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[7], volume 133, pages 145–148

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɑːm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm

Borrowed from Classical Persian جام (jām).

جام • (jām) m (Hindi spelling जाम)

1. goblet; wine cup
2. (loosely) glass; drinking vessel

Inherited from Sanskrit जम्बु (jambu).

جام • (jām) m (Hindi spelling जाम)

1. rose apple
2. guava
3. night watch (for a period of three hours)
4. son

• “جام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “جام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

From Pashto جام (jām).

جام (jām)

1. stirrup