Cam

• Cam.

Cam

1. (astronomy) IAU-designated abbreviation of Latin Camelopardalis (the genitive form of the constellation Camelopardalis), as used in a star's Bayer designation

From Old English Granta, Grantebryċġ, the former name of the modern Cambridge, ultimately from a Celtic word for "crooked," Proto-Celtic *kambos, from late Proto-Indo-European *(s)kambo- (“crooked”), shared with Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós).

Cam

1. A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.

   Synonym: Granta (south of Cambridge)

2. A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400). ^[1]
3. A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

Shortening.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kæm/

Cam (plural Cams)

1. A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.
   • 2025 June 11, “White Sox pitching prospect Grant Taylor makes jump from Double-A to perfect major league debut”, in Associated Press‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 June 2025:

     Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.

• Ranko Matasović - Toward a relative chronology of the earliest Baltic and Slavic sound changes, University of Zagreb, 2005
• Bowman, Wrigley (1922): Geographical Review, Volume 12

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac-, Mac., mac

Borrowed from Latin Cham, from Ancient Greek Χαμ (Kham), from Hebrew חָם (ẖam).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkam]

Cam m

1. Ham (son of Noah)

• camita

• ꨌꩌ
• cam (uncapitalised)

• IPA^(key): /cam/, /caːm/

Cam

1. Cham (ethnic group or language)

From Hakka 詹 (zhān).

Cam

1. a surname from Hakka

From Biblical Hebrew חָם (ẖam).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam/
• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: Càm

Cam m

1. (biblical) Ham

Cam m

1. Ham (son of Noah)

Borrowed from Latin Cham, from Ancient Greek Χαμ (Kham), from Hebrew חָם (ẖam).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkam/ [ˈkãm]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Cam

Cam m

1. Ham (son of Noah)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkam/ [ˈkam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Cam

Cam (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋ᜔)

1. alternative spelling of Kam

• چم

Cam

1. Cham (ethnic group or language)