Dictionary Definition
lamb
Noun
1 young sheep
2 English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Charles
Lamb, Elia]
3 a person easily deceived or cheated (especially
in financial matters)
4 a sweet innocent mild-mannered person
(especially a child) [syn: dear]
5 the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as
food v : give birth to a lamb; "the ewe lambed"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
lamb, from Germanic *lamboz-. Cognate with German Lamm, Dutch lam, Swedish and Norwegian lamm, Danish lam.Pronunciation
- /læm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Noun
Verb
- Of a sheep, to give birth.
- In the context of "transitive|or|intransitive": To assist
(sheep) to give birth.
- The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.
Translations
young sheep
- Arabic: خَرُوف (kharuf)
- Armenian: գառ (gar)
- Bosnian: jagnje
- Catalan: [1,2] xai (ca), anyell m, lit. (ca)
- Croatian: janje
- Czech: jehně
- Dutch: lam , lammetje
- Estonian: tall
- Finnish: karitsa
- French: agneau
- German: Lamm (de)
- Hungarian: bárány
- Icelandic: lamb
- Irish: uan
- Italian: agnello , (baby lamb) agnellino (1)
- Latin: agnus
- Kurdish: بهرخ
- Macedonian: јагне
- Maltese: ħaruf
- Mongolian: хурга (khurga)
- Old Church Slavonic: ,
- Polish: jagnię
- Portuguese: anho (m), cordeiro (m)
- Romanian: miel
- Russian: ягнёнок
- Serbian:
- Scottish Gaelic: uan
- Slovene: jagnje
- Spanish: [1] cordero (es)
- Swedish: lamm
- Turkish: kuzu
- Ukrainian: ягня
flesh of lamb as food
- Bosnian: jagnjetina
- Czech: jehněčí
- Dutch: lam , lamsvlees
- Finnish: karitsa, karitsanliha
- French: agneau
- German: Lamm , Lammfleisch
- Icelandic: lambakjöt , lamb
- Italian: agnello
- Maltese: ħaruf
- Polish: jagnięcina
- Russian: ягнятина (yagnyatina)
- Scottish Gaelic: feòil-uain
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
јагњетина
- Roman: jagnjetina
- Cyrillic:
јагњетина
- Slovene: jagnjetina
- Swedish: lamm, lammkött
- Turkish: kuzu
meek person
- Finnish: lammas
Faroese
Noun
lambDerived terms
Old English
Etymology
Common Germanic *lambazNoun
lamb- A lamb, a young sheep.
Declension
Extensive Definition
Lamb most commonly refers to:
- A young domestic sheep
- Lamb and mutton, the meat of a sheep, especially of a young sheep
Lamb or LAMB may also refer to:
- Lamb (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
- Lamb., botanical author abbreviation of Aylmer Bourke Lambert
- Lamborghini, a racing-car company (lamb is an abbreviation of the name)
- Lamb (crater), a lunar crater
- The Lamb (island), a small island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland
- LAMB (Light Armoured Motor Battery), one of the types of units of the Motor Branch of the British Army's Machine Gun Corps
- Auto-Moto Society of Latvia, a member of the FIA
- Lamb (liturgy), the cube of bread offered at the Eucharist or Divine Liturgy
... and in entertainment:
- The Lamb, a poem by William Blake
- "The Lamb and the Wolves," a fable by Ignacy Krasicki
- Lamb (film), a film starring Liam Neeson
- Lamb (band), a British musical group
- Lamb (duo), a Jewish Christian musical group
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, a novel by Christopher Moore
- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway or The Lamb, an album by Genesis
- L.A.M.B., Gwen Stefani's fashion line
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- Love.Angel.Music.Baby., the debut album by Gwen Stefani.
- Harajuku Girls, whose names came from the album, with the first letters forming an acronym for LAMB.
See also
- Domestic sheep reproduction
- Lamb of God, a title of Jesus Christ
- Sacrificial lamb, a contemporary metaphor, derived from Abrahamic religion
- Lamb chop (disambiguation)
- Lam (disambiguation)
- Lamm, a German surname
- Lambe, spin off from Lamb, Martha Lambe started trend in 1967
lamb in German: Lamb
lamb in French: Lamb
lamb in Italian: Lamb
lamb in Japanese: ラム
lamb in Polish: Lamb
lamb in Slovenian: Lamb
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
agneau,
angel, babe, baby, baby-doll, bairn, bellwether, birdling, breast of lamb,
buttercup, calf, catling, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chickling, chicky, child, child of nature, chit, colt, cub, darling, dear, deary, dogie, doll, dove, duck, duckling, dupe, ewe, ewe lamb, fawn, fledgling, foal, fryer, gigot, gosling, hick, hon, honey, honey bunch, honey child,
infant, ingenue, innocent, jambe de mouton,
jumbuck, kid, kit, kitten, lambkin, leg of lamb, leg of
mutton, litter, little
bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one,
little tad, little tot, lout, love, lover, mere child, mite, mouton, mutton, nest, nestling, newborn babe,
nipper, noble savage,
oaf, offspring, peewee, pet, petkins, piglet, pigling, polliwog, precious, precious heart,
pullet, pup, puppy, ram, rube, saddle of mutton, shaver, sheep, shoat, simple soul, snookums, sugar, sweet, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweets, tad, tadpole, teg, tot, tup, unsophisticate, weaner, wee tot, wether, whelp, yeanling, yokel