lamb
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lamb (countable and uncountable, plural lambs or (both dialectal) lamber or lambren)
- A young sheep.
- Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.
- Synonym: sheepling
- (obsolete) A young goat; a kid.
- The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”
- (uncountable) The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.
- (figuratively) A person who is meek, docile and easily led.
- Lambskin.
- 1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 8:
- They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.
- A simple, unsophisticated person.
- (finance, slang) One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
- (slang) A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
- 2003, Bust, page 88:
- Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.
- 2010 February 15, Greg Kot, “Mimi cuts loose: Mariah Carey concert at Chicago Theatre shows that the diva can laugh at herself”, in Chicago Tribune, 163rd year, number 46, section 3, page 6:
- Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.
- 2019 January 3, Rich Juzwiak, “In Praise of Their Diva”, in The New York Times, section D, page 1:
- This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.
- 2020 February 25, Chris Azzopardi, “I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)”, in The New York Times[1]:
- But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lamb.
Derived terms
[edit]- baa-lamb
- bar-lamb
- beaver lamb
- ewe lamb
- gentle as a lamb
- house lamb
- in-lamb
- in like a lion, out like a lamb
- innocent as a lamb
- in two shakes of a lamb's tail
- lamb-ale
- lambchop
- lamb down
- lamber
- Lambeth
- lamb fries
- lambie
- lambiness
- lambing
- lambing season
- lambish
- lambkill
- lambkin
- lambless
- lamblike
- lambling
- lamb of Tartary
- lamb pie
- lamb's bread
- lamb's ears
- lamb's fries
- lambskin
- lamb's lettuce
- lamb's quarters
- lamb's tongue
- lamb succory
- lambswool
- lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter/as a lamb to the slaughter
- lamburger
- lamby
- March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
- mutton dressed as lamb, mutton dressed up as lamb
- one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb
- Paschal Lamb, paschal lamb
- Persian lamb
- sacrificial lamb
- Scythian lamb
- skin the lamb
- spring lamb
- Tartarian lamb
- tod and lambs
- vegetable lamb
Translations
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Verb
[edit]lamb (third-person singular simple present lambs, present participle lambing, simple past and past participle lambed)
- (intransitive) Of a sheep, to give birth.
- (transitive or intransitive) To assist (sheep) to give birth.
- The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
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Anagrams
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.
Noun
[edit]lamb n (genitive singular lambs, plural lomb)
- lamb (both the animal and meat)
- kid (baby goat)
- (playing cards, stýrivolt) seven of the chosen cards (trump seven)
Declension
[edit]n8 | Singular | Plural | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lamb | lambið | lomb | lombini |
Accusative | lamb | lambið | lomb | lombini |
Dative | lambi | lambinum | lombum | lombunum |
Genitive | lambs | lambsins | lamba | lambanna |
Derived terms
[edit]- gimburlamb (female lamb)
- veðurlamb (male lamb)
Gothic
[edit]Romanization
[edit]lamb
- Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌱
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lamb n (genitive singular lambs, nominative plural lömb)
- a lamb
Declension
[edit]Declension of lamb | ||||
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n-s | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | lamb | lambið | lömb | lömbin |
accusative | lamb | lambið | lömb | lömbin |
dative | lambi | lambinu | lömbum | lömbunum |
genitive | lambs | lambsins | lamba | lambanna |
Derived terms
[edit]- launa lambið gráa
- ljúfur sem lamb
- vatna lömbum (compare the Old Norse krjúpa at keldu)
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lamb (plural lambren or lamber or lambes)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “lō̆mb, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lamb n (definite singular lambet, definite singular dative lambe, indefinite plural lamb or lomb, definite plural lambi or lombi, definite plural dative lambom or lombom)
- a lamb (young sheep); (pre-1938) alternative form of lam
- (by extension, Christianity, figurative) Christ as sacrificial lamb
Inflection
[edit]Historical inflection of lamb
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. |
Derived terms
[edit]Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lamb n (nominative plural lambru)
Declension
[edit]West Saxon:
Anglian:
Descendants
[edit]Old High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *lamb, see also Old Saxon lamb, Old English lamb, Old Norse lamb, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌱 (lamb).
Noun
[edit]lamb n
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | lamb | lembir |
accusative | lamb | lembir |
genitive | lambes | lembiro |
dative | lambe | lembirum, lembirom |
instrumental | lambu, lambo | lembirum, lembirom |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *lambaz.
Noun
[edit]lamb n (genitive lambs, plural lǫmb)
- a lamb
Declension
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Old Saxon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *lamb.
Noun
[edit]lamb n
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | lamb | lambiru |
accusative | lamb | lambiru |
genitive | lambes | lambirō |
dative | lambe | lambirum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
[edit]- Low German: Lamm
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- en:Baby animals
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- en:Meats
- en:People
- en:Sheep
- Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse
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- fo:Foods
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- fo:Sheep
- fo:Stýrivolt
- Gothic non-lemma forms
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- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/amp
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- is:Baby animals
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- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
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- Middle English nouns
- enm:Baby animals
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
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- Norwegian Nynorsk pre-1938 forms
- nn:Christianity
- Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- ang:Sheep
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
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- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- non:Sheep
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old Saxon lemmas
- Old Saxon nouns
- Old Saxon neuter nouns
- Old Saxon z-stem nouns