clam

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /klæm/
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• [kleəm] ~ [klɛəm] General American, æ-raising
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /klam/
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• Australia: /klæːm/
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• [kleːm] ~ [klɛːm] Australia, æ-raising
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• New-Zealand: /klɛm/
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• rhymes with -æm
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• /klæm/
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• [kleəm] æ-raising
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• CMU ARPABET: K L AE1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English clammen, clemen (“to smear, bedaub”), from Old English clǣman (“to smear, bedaub”). Cognate with German klamm (“clammy”). See also clammy (“damp, cold and sticky”) and clem (“to adhere, stick, plug (a hole)”).

From Middle English clam (“pincers, vice, clamp”), from Old English clam (“bond, fetter, grip, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *klammjan (“press, squeeze together”). The sense “dollar” may allude to wampum. The sense "Scientologist" alludes to the Scientologist belief that human thetans (souls) previously inhabited clams.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abenaki: als — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Algonquin: poquauhock — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Asturian: amasuela — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Asturian: almexa — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Asturian: cáscara — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Basque: txirla — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Belarusian: малю́ск (maljúsk) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Belarusian: двухра́кавінкавы малю́ск (dvuxrákavinkavy maljúsk) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Bulgarian: ми́да (mída) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Burmese: ခုံးကောင် (hkum:kaung) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Catalan: cloïssa — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Cheyenne: hexōvo — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Chinese Cantonese: 蜆 /蚬 (hin2) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Chinese Mandarin: 蚌 (bàng) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Chinese Mandarin: 蛤 (gé) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Chinese Mandarin: 蛤蜊 (gélí) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Chinese Mandarin: 蜆 /蚬 (xiǎn) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Chinese Mandarin: 文蛤 (wéngé) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Corsican: vongola — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Cree: ᐁᓴ (esa) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Cree: ᐁᓯᐢ (esis) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Czech: škeble — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Dutch: mossel — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Esperanto: ruditapo — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Esperanto: muslo — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Esperanto: pekteno — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Finnish: simpukka — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• French: palourde — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• French: praire — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Galician: ameixa — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• German: Muschel — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• German: Venusmuschel — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• German: Klaffmuschel — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Greek: αχιβάδα (achiváda) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Hebrew: צֶדֶף (tzédef) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Hebrew: צִדְפָּה (tzidpá) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Hungarian: kagyló — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Ido: muslo — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Inuktitut: ammuumajuq (ammuumajuq) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Irish: breallach — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Italian: vongola — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Italian: tellina — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Italian: arsella — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Japanese: 蛤 (hamaguri) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Japanese: ハマグリ (hamaguri) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Japanese: 浅蜊 (asari) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Japanese: アサリ (asari) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Korean: 조개 (jogae) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Lakota: tuki — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Latin: mollusca — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Macedonian: школка (školka) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Malay: kepah — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Marshallese: jenǫ — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Mi'kmaq: e's — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Mohegan-Pequot: suksuw — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Mohegan-Pequot: poqáh — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Navajo: chʼosh bitsʼaʼ doolkʼoolígíí — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Norwegian: musling — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Norwegian: blåskjell — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Southern Ohlone: hakkaw — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Ojibwe: es — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Polish: małż — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Portuguese: amêijoa — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Romanian: moluscă comestibilă — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Russian: моллю́ск (molljúsk) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Russian: двуство́рчатый моллю́ск (dvustvórčatyj molljúsk) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Serbo-Croatian: шко̑љка — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Serbo-Croatian: škȏljka — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Slovene: škóljka — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Lower Sorbian: wenusowa mušla — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Spanish: almeja — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Spanish: chirla — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Spanish: amayuela — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Spanish: chocha — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Swedish: mussla — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Tagalog: kabibe — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Thai: หอยกาบ (h̄xy kāb) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Turkish: istiridye — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Turkish: midye — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Ukrainian: молю́ск (moljúsk) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Ukrainian: двостулковий молю́ск (dvostulkovyj moljúsk) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Unami: èhës — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Vietnamese: nghêu — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Vietnamese: sò — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Welsh: cragen fylchog — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Yiddish: קלאַם (klam) — mollusc — see also mollusc, oyster, mussel
• Japanese: clams — to dig for clams
• Japanese: あさり (Asari) — to dig for clams
• Portuguese: mariscar — to dig for clams