rams

See also: Rams and RAMs

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹæmz/

Noun

rams

  1. plural of ram

Verb

rams

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ram

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

rams (uncountable)

  1. (card games) A French trick-taking card game related to nap and loo.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Ramsons (Allium ursinum) in flower.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rams/, [ɾams]
  • Rhymes: -ams
  • Hyphenation: rams

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse *hrams (“ramsons”); alternatively, borrowed from Middle Low German rāmese (“ramsons”). The word belongs to the plant-name family represented by Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“wild garlic”); the precise reconstruction underlying the Scandinavian forms and its further origin are uncertain.[1][2]

Compare Norwegian Nynorsk rams, Danish rams, Swedish rams, Icelandic rams, Faroese rams, German Ramsen and English ramsons.[2]

Noun

rams m (definite singular ramsen, indefinite plural ramser, definite plural ramsene)

  1. (dialectal) ramsons, wild garlic (Allium ursinum)[1]
    Synonym: ramsløk
    Det vokser rams i skogen bak huset. ― Wild garlic grows in the woods behind the house.
  2. a name for various other plants, as in geitrams (“fireweed”)[1]
    Her kaller vi denne planten rams. ― Here we call this plant rams.
Derived terms
  • geitrams (“fireweed”)
  • ramsløk (“ramsons; wild garlic”)

Etymology 2

Deverbal from ramse (“to recite; rattle off”), a verb of uncertain origin.[3][4]

Compare Norwegian Nynorsk rams, Danish rams (in på rams (“by heart”)) and Swedish ramsa (“recitation; string of words”).[5]

Noun

rams m (indeclinable)

  1. Used in the expression på rams: by heart; from memory; by rote
    Hun kunne hele diktet på rams. ― She knew the whole poem by heart.
    • 2002 May 16, Øyvind Holen, Aftenposten Aften‎[1]:
      Den norske fansen er ikke like ekstrem, men sitter gjerne en uke i billettkø og kan bifigurer og replikker på rams.
      The Norwegian fans are not quite as extreme, but will happily queue for tickets for a week and know minor characters and lines by heart.

Etymology 3

The immediate source of the Norwegian game name is uncertain. The corresponding French rams was borrowed from German Rams, itself borrowed from French ramas (“heap; collection”), a deverbal of ramasser (“to gather; pick up”).[6] The latter derives from amasser (“to amass”), from masse (“mass; heap”), ultimately from Latin massa (“dough; mass”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley cake; dough”).[7]

Compare German Rams, French rams and English rams.

Noun

rams

  1. (card games) rams (a traditional card game)
    Etter middagen spilte de rams. ― After dinner, they played rams.
    • 2023 March 29, “Lørdag 1. april – matsalg og kortspæll på Kveli samfunnshus”, in Li-Nytt‎[2], number 13, Lierne kommune, page 6:
      […] opplæring i tradisjonelle kortspill i Kvelia, rams, stopp, sleip-Jens og kulpoker.
      […] instruction in traditional card games played in Kvelia: rams, stopp, sleip-Jens and kulpoker.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rams

  1. imperative of ramse (“to recite; rattle off”)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “rams_1” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rosemarie Lühr, editor (2021), “ramese*”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, volume VII.
  3. ^ “rams_2” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
  4. ^ “ramse_1” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
  5. ^ “Remse, II”, in Ordbog over det danske Sprog, volume 17 (1937).
  6. ^ “rams”, in Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, ninth edition.
  7. ^ “ramasser” and “masse”, in Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, ninth edition; “amasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé, via CNRTL.

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Swedish

Noun

rams

  1. indefinite genitive singular of ram

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