aam

See also AAM, and Aam

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Alternative forms

• aum
• awm

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch aam, from German Ahm, Ohm, from Late Latin ama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (amē, “bucket”); compare Latin hama (“water bucket”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɑːm/, /ɔːm
• (US) IPA: /ɑm/, /ɔm
• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Rhymes: -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 at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, and at Hamburg 38¼. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]

Anagrams

• ama, AMA, maa

References

• 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 1:

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Dutch

Noun

aam n (plural amen)

1. aam

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA: /aˈam/

Noun

aam

1. a broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng aam ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.