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âm

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Khiamniungan Naga

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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âm

  1. (Patsho) To soak things especially food and clothes.
  2. (Patsho) flowering of bamboo plant which usually indicates an end of its life.

Ngizim

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Etymology

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Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.

Noun

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âm

  1. water

References

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  • 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]: [] Ngz. am []
  • 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
  • Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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    Sino-Vietnamese word from (sound).

    Noun

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    âm

    1. sound
    2. (phonetics, colloquial) clipping of âm tố or ngữ âm (phone)
    3. (phonology, colloquial) clipping of âm vị (phoneme)
    4. (linguistics, colloquial) clipping of âm tiết (syllable)
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    Etymology 2

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      Sino-Vietnamese word from .

      Noun

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      âm

      1. (occult) yin

      Adjective

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      âm

      1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"
        ngày âma lunar day
      2. (mathematics, physics) negative
        điện âmnegative charges

      Prefix

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      âm

      1. minus; negative
        Synonym: trừ
        -10° (âm 10 độ)-10° (minus/negative 10 degrees [Celsius])
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