Used in cooking and food contexts. Often appears in compound words like ラム肉 or ラムチョップ.
I'm thinking of grilling lamb for dinner tonight.
A lamb is eating grass on the farm.
I'm going to make roast lamb tonight.
They keep several lambs on the farm.
ラム (rum) is the sugarcane-based spirit, while ラム (lamb) refers to young sheep meat, as seen in ラムチョップ; the two share identical katakana spelling but have no relation in meaning.
As a live animal, ラム is counted with 頭, the standard counter for large animals like sheep and cattle.
rum and Coke; Cuba libre
rum
lamb's wool
lambskin
lamb chop
rum raisin; raisins marinated in rum
Borrowed from English 'lamb'.