lamb – English noun declension

English noun forms of lamb

Noun: lamb
Singularlamb
Plurallambs; lambren

Sample Sentences

  • Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.
  • Mark and Mark have raised some lambs for market, and they won a blue ribbon for quality at the fair.
  • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”
  • Near-synonym: sheep
  • They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders. [1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 8:]
  • Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs. [2003, Bust, page 88:]
  • Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them. [2010 February 15, Greg Kot, “Mimi cuts loose: Mariah Carey concert at Chicago Theatre shows that the diva can laugh at herself”, in Chicago Tribune, 163rd year, number 46, section 3, page 6:]
  • This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours. [2019 January 3, Rich Juzwiak, “In Praise of Their Diva”, in The New York Times, section D, page 1:]
  • But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage. [2020 February 25, Chris Azzopardi, “I Love You (But Do You Love Mariah Carey?)”, in The New York Times:]
  • Pride Month begins June 1, and Mariah Carey is giving her lambs plenty of new clothes to celebrate. [2022, “Mariah Carey releases her exclusive Pride merchandise”, in WRMF:]

Nouns inflected like lamb

lamb,

Etymology

1. From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-.
2. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk. See: Middle English Nouns 'lamb', Old English Nouns 'lamb', Dutch Nouns 'lam', German Nouns 'Lamm', Danish Nouns 'lam', Swedish Nouns 'lamm', Finnish Nouns 'lammas', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἔλαφος'.

Verbs referencing "lamb"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns lam, Finnish Nouns lammas, Latvian Nouns lops.