âm

• IPA^(key): /am⁵²/

âm

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

Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.

âm

1. water

• 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 […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 音 (“sound”).

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”)

• âm thanh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰.

âm

1. (occult) yin

âm

1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"

   ngày âm ― a lunar day

2. (mathematics, physics) negative

   điện âm ― negative charges

âm

1. minus; negative

   Synonym: trừ

   -10° (âm 10 độ) ― -10° (minus/negative 10 degrees [Celsius])

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