klem

• IPA^(key): /klɛm/

From Dutch klemmen, from Middle Dutch clemmen, from Old Dutch *klemmen, from Proto-Germanic *klammjan.

klem (present klem, present participle klemmende, past participle geklem)

1. (transitive) to clamp, to squeeze

From Dutch klem, from Middle Dutch clemme.

klem (plural klemme, diminutive klemmetjie)

1. clamp
2. (grammar) stress

   Synonym: klemtoon

• IPA^(key): [ˈklɛm]

klem

1. instrumental singular of kel

• IPA^(key): /klɛm/

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• Hyphenation: klem
• Rhymes: -ɛm

From Middle Dutch clemme. Equivalent to a deverbal from klemmen.

klem m (plural klemmen, diminutive klemmetje n)

1. clamp

• Afrikaans: klem
• → Indonesian: klem
• → Papiamentu: klèm

klem (not comparable)

1. (predicative) stuck

   Zijn voet zat klem tussen het rempedaal en de vloer.

   His foot was stuck between the brake pedal and the floor

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

klem

1. inflection of klemmen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• melk

From Dutch klem, from Middle Dutch clemme, from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛm/
• Hyphenation: klém

klém (first-person possessive klemku, second-person possessive klemmu, third-person possessive klemnya)

1. clamp.

   Synonym: penjepit

• “klem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

klem

1. (Maroon Spirit Language) Climb.

• Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "Older Heads" Talk: A Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language and Its Relationship to the Creoles of Surname and Sierra Leone". New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 57 (1/2): 37–88.

• IPA^(key): /kɽɛm/, /klɛm/
• Rhymes: -ɛm

klem m (definite singular klemmen, indefinite plural klemmer, definite plural klemmene)

1. hug

klem

1. imperative of klemme

• IPA^(key): /klɛm/

klem m (definite singular klemmen, indefinite plural klemmar, definite plural klemmane)

1. a hug, an embrace

klem

1. imperative of klemma

• “klem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.