nyam

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɲam]

Noun

nyam

1. food

Derived terms

• fer nyam

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Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Borrowed from Wolof nyam, nyami, nyamnyam (“food; to eat”), or from Fula nyama, nyami, nyamgo (“to eat”). Possibly via Ghanaian Pidgin English. Many other West African languages use similar terms for "flesh" or "meat", such as: Chichewa nyama, Efik unam, Esimbi ɛnyimi, Hausa nama, Lingala nyama, Swahili nyama, and Zulu inyama. Also compare Hausa nyamnyam, yamyam (“cannibal”) and Luba-Kasai nyama (“animal”).

Noun

nyam

1. Food; a meal.

Verb

nyam

1. To eat.

References

• Huber, Magnus (1999) Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 102
• Cassidy, Frederic Gomes, Le Page, Robert Brock, editors (2002), Dictionary of Jamaican English, 2nd edition, University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 325
• Sheller, Mimi (2003) Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies, Routledge, →ISBN

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Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

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Noun

nyam

1. yam

References

• Nigerian Pidgin by Nicholas Faraclas, publ. Routledge, 1996