ram

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. (masculine) ram (male sheep)
2. (masculine) male rabbit
3. (masculine) battering ram

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular) inflection of rammen:
2. (form-of, indicative, present, second-person, singular) inflection of rammen:
3. (form-of, imperative) inflection of rammen:

Synonyms

hamel

rammelaar

stormram

Ram

♈

heiblok

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/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.