aam

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

• 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/

• Audio (US)

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• 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

• Afrikaans: aam
• Dutch: aam (nl) n
• Estonian: aam (et)

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

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

• halfaam

See also

• gelling

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

• IPA^(key): /aːm/

• Audio

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

Noun

aam n (plural amen)

1. aam

Descendants

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

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 (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	aam	aamid
accusative	aami	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

Further reading

• aam in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
• aam in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• aam in Sõnaveeb

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːm

• Audio

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Contraction

aam

1. aan + dem, at the, on the

   Aam Montach hod-s gerehnd.

   On Monday it rained.

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

Sakizaya

Noun

aam

1. congee

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• am

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aám (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜀᜋ᜔)

1. broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng aam ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːm/

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

aam

1. them
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:

     Leth aam.

     Let them.

Derived terms

• w'aam

Etymology 2

From Middle English am, 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