"cham" meaning in Polish

See cham in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈxam/
Rhymes: -am Etymology: From Cham, stemming from the belief that peasants were descended from the Biblical Ham and therefore subject to his eponymous curse. Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-pr|aug=chamudro<l:dialectal>|f=chamka,chamica}} cham m pers (female equivalent chamka or chamica, augmentative (dialectal) chamudro) Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-m-pr}} Forms: chamka [feminine], chamica [feminine], chamudro [augmentative, dialectal], no-table-tags [table-tags], cham [nominative, singular], chami [nominative, plural], chamy [derogatory, nominative, plural], chama [genitive, singular], chamów [genitive, plural], chamowi [dative, singular], chamom [dative, plural], chama [accusative, singular], chamów [accusative, plural], chamem [instrumental, singular], chamami [instrumental, plural], chamie [locative, singular], chamach [locative, plural], chamie [singular, vocative], chami [plural, vocative]
  1. (derogatory) bumpkin, yokel (arrogant, ill-manner person; one who is uncultured and uneducated) Tags: derogatory, masculine, person Synonyms: burak, chamidło, chamisko, prostak, prymityw
    Sense id: en-cham-pl-noun-ULYSHwO1 Categories (other): Pages with 12 entries, Pages with entries, Polish entries with incorrect language header, Polish links with manual fragments, Polish links with redundant alt parameters, Polish links with redundant wikilinks, Male people Disambiguation of Pages with 12 entries: 1 9 15 11 19 22 1 1 5 14 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 6 9 7 26 25 1 1 3 20 1 Disambiguation of Polish entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of Polish links with manual fragments: 67 33 Disambiguation of Polish links with redundant alt parameters: 82 18 Disambiguation of Polish links with redundant wikilinks: 88 12 Disambiguation of Male people: 51 49
  2. (archaic, derogatory) countryman, peasant (person of low birth) Tags: archaic, derogatory, masculine, person Synonyms: chłop, wieśniak
    Sense id: en-cham-pl-noun-qsPqL8Us Categories (other): Male people Disambiguation of Male people: 51 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: chamowaty [adjective], chamski [adjective], chamidło [noun], chamisko [noun], chamstwo [noun], chamuś [noun], chamieć [imperfective, verb], schamieć [perfective, verb] Related terms: chamsko [adverb], na chama [adverb], Cham [noun], chamskość [noun]

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "chamowaty"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "chamski"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamidło"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamisko"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamstwo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamuś"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "chamieć"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "perfective",
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "schamieć"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cham, stemming from the belief that peasants were descended from the Biblical Ham and therefore subject to his eponymous curse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chamka",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamica",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamudro",
      "tags": [
        "augmentative",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pl-decl-noun-m-pr",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamów",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamowi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamów",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-pr",
        "aug": "chamudro<l:dialectal>",
        "f": "chamka,chamica"
      },
      "expansion": "cham m pers (female equivalent chamka or chamica, augmentative (dialectal) chamudro)",
      "name": "pl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cham"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "cham"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-pr"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "chamsko"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "na chama"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Cham"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamskość"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "1 9 15 11 19 22 1 1 5 14 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 12 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 6 9 7 26 25 1 1 3 20 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "pl",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "pl:Male people",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bumpkin, yokel (arrogant, ill-manner person; one who is uncultured and uneducated)"
      ],
      "id": "en-cham-pl-noun-ULYSHwO1",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "bumpkin",
          "bumpkin"
        ],
        [
          "yokel",
          "yokel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) bumpkin, yokel (arrogant, ill-manner person; one who is uncultured and uneducated)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "burak"
        },
        {
          "word": "chamidło"
        },
        {
          "word": "chamisko"
        },
        {
          "word": "prostak"
        },
        {
          "word": "prymityw"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "pl",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "pl:Male people",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "countryman, peasant (person of low birth)"
      ],
      "id": "en-cham-pl-noun-qsPqL8Us",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "countryman",
          "countryman"
        ],
        [
          "peasant",
          "peasant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, derogatory) countryman, peasant (person of low birth)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chłop"
        },
        {
          "word": "wieśniak"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "derogatory",
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈxam/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-am"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Cham"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Curse of Ham"
  ],
  "word": "cham"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 12 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Polish 1-syllable words",
    "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Polish lemmas",
    "Polish links with manual fragments",
    "Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Polish masculine nouns",
    "Polish nouns",
    "Polish personal nouns",
    "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Polish terms with audio pronunciation",
    "Polish terms with homophones",
    "Requests for date",
    "Rhymes:Polish/am",
    "Rhymes:Polish/am/1 syllable",
    "pl:Male people"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "chamowaty"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "chamski"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamidło"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamisko"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamstwo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamuś"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "chamieć"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "perfective",
        "verb"
      ],
      "word": "schamieć"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Cham, stemming from the belief that peasants were descended from the Biblical Ham and therefore subject to his eponymous curse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chamka",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamica",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamudro",
      "tags": [
        "augmentative",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pl-decl-noun-m-pr",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamy",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamów",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamowi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamów",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamach",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chamie",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chami",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-pr",
        "aug": "chamudro<l:dialectal>",
        "f": "chamka,chamica"
      },
      "expansion": "cham m pers (female equivalent chamka or chamica, augmentative (dialectal) chamudro)",
      "name": "pl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cham"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "cham"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-pr"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Polish",
  "lang_code": "pl",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "chamsko"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ],
      "word": "na chama"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "Cham"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "chamskość"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Polish derogatory terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bumpkin, yokel (arrogant, ill-manner person; one who is uncultured and uneducated)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "bumpkin",
          "bumpkin"
        ],
        [
          "yokel",
          "yokel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) bumpkin, yokel (arrogant, ill-manner person; one who is uncultured and uneducated)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "burak"
        },
        {
          "word": "chamidło"
        },
        {
          "word": "chamisko"
        },
        {
          "word": "prostak"
        },
        {
          "word": "prymityw"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Polish derogatory terms",
        "Polish terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "countryman, peasant (person of low birth)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "countryman",
          "countryman"
        ],
        [
          "peasant",
          "peasant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, derogatory) countryman, peasant (person of low birth)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chłop"
        },
        {
          "word": "wieśniak"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "derogatory",
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈxam/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-am"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Cham"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Curse of Ham"
  ],
  "word": "cham"
}

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