adem

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦝꦼꦩ꧀ (adhem).

• IPA^(key): /adəm/

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• Rhymes: -əm
• Hyphenation: a‧dem

adem

1. cold (having a low temperature)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdəm/

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• Hyphenation: adem
• Rhymes: -aːdəm

From Middle Dutch âdem, from Old Dutch *āthom, from Proto-West Germanic *āþm, from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz.

adem m (uncountable)

1. breath

• (dialectal) asem, (obsolete) aâm

• “adem” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

adem

1. inflection of ademen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• dame, made

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦝꦼꦩ꧀ (adhem, “cold”), from Old Javanese aḍom, aḍĕm.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈadəm/ [ˈa.dəm]
• Rhymes: -adəm
• Syllabification: a‧dem
• Homophone: ADEM

adêm (comparative lebih adem, superlative paling adem)

1. cold

   Synonym: dingin

2. cool

   Synonym: sejuk

3. patient
4. plain

   Synonyms: hambar, tawar

Borrowed from Balinese [Term?]

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈadəm/ [ˈa.dəm]
• Rhymes: -adəm
• Syllabification: a‧dem
• Homophone: ADEM

adêm (plural adem-adem)

1. chewing betel nut

• “adem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Dutch *āthom, from Proto-West Germanic *āþm, from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz.

âdem m

1. breath

• âdemen

• Dutch: adem
• Limburgish: aodem, aom

• “adem”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “adem”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese ãade, from Latin anatem (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂t-.

• Hyphenation: a‧dem

adem m (plural adens)

1. mallard (Anas platyrhynchos, a wild species of duck)

   Synonym: pato-real

• → Macanese: ade

• “adem” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “adem”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “adem”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Ottoman Turkish عدم, from Arabic عَدَم (ʕadam).

adem (definite accusative ademi, plural ademler)

1. (archaic) nonexistence, nothingness, void
2. (archaic) lack, absence

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عدم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 841
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “adem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عدم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1289
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN