cham
Meanings
noun
- Archaic spelling of khan.
- An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.
verb
- To chew.
contraction
- I am
noun
- An ethnic group living in Cambodia and Vietnam.
name
- The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.
- An abugida used to write this language.
adj
- Pertaining to the Cham people or their language.
name
- A town in Bavaria, Germany.
name
- A town in Zug canton, Switzerland.
noun
- an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).
name
- A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From French cham, from Ottoman Turkish خان (han) (see there for more).
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