aam

aam

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Asa.

   Synonym: aas (current)

• aum, awm

Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːm/, /ɔːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑm/, /ɔm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -ɔːm

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]

• 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.

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

Inherited from Dutch aam, from Middle Dutch ame, aem, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).

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

• halfaam

• gelling

From Proto-Austronesian *qaʀəm.

aam

1. scaly anteater

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.

• IPA^(key): /aːm/

• Audio:

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

aam n (plural amen)

1. aam

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

From Middle Low German am, ame, from Latin ama (“firebucket”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́μη (ắmē, “bucket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːm/, [ˈɑːm]
• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Hyphenation: aam

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)

1. a large barrel

   Synonym: vaat

2. (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid, especially alcohol, equivalent to around 140–160 liters)

• aam in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “aam”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːm/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔːm
• Syllabification: aam

aam

1. contraction of aan dem (“at the; on the”)

   Aam Montach hod-s gerehnd.

   On Monday it rained.

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “aam”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 1, column 1

ăăm (plural ˀààmé)

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]: […] Mubi ăăm, pl. ˀààmé […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN), page 38

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈam/, [a.ˈam]

aam

1. congee

Borrowed from Hokkien 飲 / 饮 (ám, “rice broth; rice water”) with epenthesis splitting into two syllables (cf. gaas, siim, tiim, and tsaa).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈʔam/ [ʔɐˈʔam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: a‧am

aám (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜀᜋ᜔) (dialectal, chiefly Batangas)

1. alternative form of am

• “aam”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “aam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 13

• ama

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

• IPA^(key): /aːm/

aam

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

     Leth aam.

     Let them.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:

     Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe (o') aam 'twode snite.

     They kicked and rolled, the few (of them) that appeared.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?

     Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Shoo ya aam zim to doone, as w' be doone nowe;

     She gave them some to do, as we are doing now;

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:

     Craneen t' thee wee aam, thee luggès shell aake.

     Choking to thee with them. Thy ears shall ache.

• w'aam

From Middle English āme, am, from Old English eam, eom (“am”).

• am

• IPA^(key): /aːm/, /am/

aam

1. am
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:

     Fan ich aam in this miseree.

     When I am in this misery.

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.

     To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.

     I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 21