aam

aam

See also: åm, Aam, AAM, aàm, aám, aâm, a'am, aa'm, and аам

Translingual

Symbol

aam

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Asa.

   Synonym: aas (current)

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English

Alternative forms

• aum, awm

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːm/, /ɔːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑm/, /ɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -ɔːm

Noun

aam (plural aams)

1. (historical) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼. [first attested around 1350 to 1470]

Translations

Dutch and German measure of liquids

References

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aam”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1.
• aam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

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Bakung

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *qaʀəm.

Noun

aam

1. scaly anteater

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ame, aem, from Late Latin ama (Latin hama), from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”), ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather, harvest”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːm/

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• Hyphenation: aam
• Rhymes: -aːm
• Homophone: Aam

Noun

aam n (plural amen)

1. aam

Descendants

• → English: aam

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Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German am, ame.

Noun

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)

1. a big barrel
2. (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid)

Declension

Declension of aam (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	aam	aamid
genitive	aami	aamide
partitive	aami	aame / aamisid
illative	aami / aamisse	aamidesse / aamesse
inessive	aamis	aamides / aames
elative	aamist	aamidest / aamest
allative	aamile	aamidele / aamele
adessive	aamil	aamidel / aamel
ablative	aamilt	aamidelt / aamelt
translative	aamiks	aamideks / aameks
terminative	aamini	aamideni
essive	aamina	aamidena
abessive	aamita	aamideta
comitative	aamiga	aamidega

Derived terms

• aamissepp

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːm/

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Contraction

aam

1. aan + dem, at the, on the

   Aam Montach hod-s gerehnd.

   On Monday it rained.

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Mubi

Noun

ăăm (plural ˀààmé)

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Mubi ăăm, pl. ˀààmé […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN), page 38

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Sakizaya

Noun

aam

1. congee

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• am

Etymology

Contraction of Hokkien 泔淊 (ám-ám).[1][2] Compare Cebuano am-am (“(childish) food”), Sakizaya aam (“congee”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧am
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈʔam/, [ʔɐˈʔam]

Noun

aám

1. broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng aam ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.

References

1. Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics‎ (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 137.
2. Douglas, Carstairs (1899), “ám-ám”, in Chinese-English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, London: Presbyterian Church of England, page 3

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Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English am (“them”), from Old English heom (“them”), dative of hie. Cognate with English 'em.

Pronoun

aam

1. them

Derived terms

• w'aam

Etymology 2

From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”).

Alternative forms

• am

Verb

aam

1. am
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4:

     Fan ich aam in this miseree.

     When I am in this misery.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 21 & 104