mám

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːm]

mám

1. first-person singular present indicative of mít

From Portuguese mão, with influence from Cantonese 手 (sau²).

• IPA^(key): /maŋ/

mám

1. (anatomy) hand

   Coordinate term: pê (“foot”)

   pê-mám ― feet and hands

   mám-fichado ― miserly, tight-fisted (literally, “hand closed”)

   mám tánto ― person who interferes with things that are not their responsibility (literally, “much hand”)

   mám cumprido ― thief; sticky-fingered, prone to stealing (literally, “long hand”)

   mám di fada ― nimble-fingered (literally, “hand of fairy”)

   mám pa trás ― idle-handed; lazy person (literally, “hand at back”)

   pegâ mám andâ rua ― to hold hands walking the streets

   cai pê-mám ― to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)

   mám-lárgo ― generous (literally, “big hand”)

   mám-macaco ― fidgety (literally, “monkey hand”)

   mám-fêde ― someone with a dirty mind (literally, “stinky hand”)

   mám-cutí ― doorknob (literally, “hit hand”)

2. (anatomy) arm

   pê-mám ― legs and arms

• mám tánto is a calque of Cantonese 多手 (do¹ sau²).

• dále dôs mám
• mám-di-buda
• virâ mám (“in the blink of an eye”, literally “turn hand”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#m

• maám, máam

Uncertain. Has been connected to Proto-Germanic *makaz (“fit, suitable”),^[1] though this is dubious.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːm]

mám m (genitive máma)

1. yoke

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18^c6

  Is machthad limm a threte do·rérachtid máam fírinne et soscéli; .i. i⟨s⟩ súaignid nírubtar gaítha for comairli. Is dían do·rréractid maám ind ṡoscéli.

  I marvel how quickly you pl have abandoned the yoke of righteousness and [the] gospel; i.e. it is clear that your counsels have not been wise. It is swiftly that you have abandoned the yoke of the gospel.

  (literally, “it is a wonder to me its quickness that…”)

• fo·ammámaigedar

• Middle Irish: mám
  • Irish: mám

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

mám

1. grandfather

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