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ram.

ram (male sheep)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/rɑm/
  1. ram (male sheep)

    masculine
  2. male rabbit

    masculine
  3. battering ram

    masculine
Where this word comes from

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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