Sam

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsæm/

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• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈsæːm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Sam (plural Sams)

1. A diminutive of the male given names Samuel or Samson.
   • 2021 August 18, Rebecca Cairns, “This teenage aviator hopes to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     While the plane is “perfectly capable” of making the trip without these modifications, Zara’s father Sam Rutherford says these changes have given both him and Zara an extra sense of security.

2. A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
3. A surname from Cantonese, a romanization of 岑 (cén) or 沈 (shěn).
4. A town in Alibori department, Benin.
5. A town in Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso.
6. A town in Bourzanga department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
7. A village in Kongoussi department, Bam, Burkina Faso.
8. A Trans-New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea.
9. A surname from Khmer
10. (Ireland, informal) The Sam Maguire Cup awarded to the All-Ireland GAA football winning team.

Sam (plural Sams)

1. (UK, informal) Synonym of Dicky Sam (“a man from Liverpool”)

• Silent Sam

• Sammy
• Sam Sawet

• 'ams, Mas, mas, MSA, -mas, ASM, AMS, M.A.S., MAs, sma, M.A.s, SMA, M. A. S., MAS, A.M.s, asm

From Samuel.

• IPA^(key): /sɑm/

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• Hyphenation: Sam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Sam m

1. a male given name

Sam f

1. a female given name

From Old High German soum, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz. Cognate with German Saum, English seam, Dutch zoom.

• IPA^(key): /zaːm/
• Rhymes: -aːm

Sam m (plural Seem)

1. seam, hem

Sam

1. Thailand, Siam (a country in Southeast Asia)

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

From Malay Syam, from Arabic شَام (šām), الشَّام (aš-šām)

• IPA^(key): /sam/

Sam

1. Greater Syria, the Levant (a region of Western Asia in the Middle East)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Wawacan Ahmad Muhammad:

     ...Raja Madinah lan Mekah,
     Raja Yaman, Sam, jeung Turki,
     Raja Kudis, Yunan, Kupah,
     Raja Erum sami linggih.

     ...The kings of Medina and Mecca
     The kings of Yemen, Levant, and the Turks
     The kings of Jerusalem, Greece and Kufa
     The king of Rome, sitting too

• "SAM", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij