ram
Bedeutung (English)
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- (masculine) ram (male sheep)
- (masculine) male rabbit
- (masculine) battering ram
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/rɑm/
Etymology (English)
From Middle Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), from Old Dutch *ram, of West-Germanic origin, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate to English ram (“a male sheep”). The sense "battering ram" was borrowed as a semantic loan from Latin ariēs in Middle Dutch.
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rammen
- (transitive) to ram, to intentionally collide with (a ship or car or building) with the intention of damaging or sinking it
- (transitive) to strike (something) hard
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