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aam

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aam"

Translingual

Symbol

aam

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

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

References

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Noun

aam (plural ame, diminutive aampie)

  1. (historical) aam (a measure for liquids varying between regions, it was roughly 32 wine gallons in South Africa)
  2. (historical, by extension) a barrel with the volume of one aam

Derived terms

See also

Bakung

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *qaʀəm.

Noun

aam

  1. scaly anteater

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

Noun

aam n (plural amen, no diminutive)

  1. aam

Descendants

  • → English: aam
  • → Russian: аа́м (aám)
  • →? Old Swedish: aam

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German am, ame, from Latin ama (“firebucket”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́μη (ắmē, “bucket”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑːm/, [ˈɑːm]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːm
  • Hyphenation: aam

Noun

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)

  1. a large barrel
    Synonym: vaat
  2. (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid, especially alcohol, equivalent to around 140–160 liters)

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

  • piiritusaam
  • veeaam
  • veiniaam
  • viinaaam
  • õlleaam

References

  • aam in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “aam”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːm
  • Syllabification: aam

Contraction

aam

  1. contraction of aan +‎ dem, literally “at the; on the”
    Aam Montach hod-s gerehnd.
    On Monday it rained.

References

  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “aam”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 1, column 1

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 […]
  • Václav Blažek (2000), “Toward the discussion of the Berber-Nubian lexical parallels”, in Salem Chaker, editor, compiled by Salem Chaker and Andrej Zaborski, Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques. Mélanges offert à Karl-G. Prasse (in French and English), Peeters, →ISBN, page 38
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Sakizaya

Pronunciation

Noun

aam

  1. congee

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 飲 / 饮 (ám, “rice broth; rice water”) with epenthesis splitting into two syllables (cf. gaas, siim, tiim, and tsaa).

Pronunciation

Noun

aám (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜀᜋ᜔) (dialectal, chiefly Batangas)

  1. alternative form of am

Further reading

  • “aam”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
  • “aam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948), Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 13

Anagrams

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Yola

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

aam

  1. them
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:
      Leth aam.
      Let them.
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:
      Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe (o') aam 'twode snite.
      They kicked and rolled, the few (of them) that appeared.
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
      Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?
      Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:
      Shoo ya aam zim to doone, as w' be doone nowe;
      She gave them some to do, as we are doing now;
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:
      Craneen t' thee wee aam, thee luggès shell aake.
      Choking to thee with them. Thy ears shall ache.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

aam

  1. am
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:
      Fan ich aam in this miseree.
      When I am in this misery.
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
      "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.
      To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.
      I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 21
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