diam

diam

1. (mathematics) diameter

   ${\displaystyle \mathrm {diam} (X):=\sup\{d(x,y):x,y\in X\}}$

From diameter.

diam (plural diams)

1. Clipping of diameter.

• diam.

From diamond.

diam (plural diams)

1. Clipping of diamond.

Unadapted borrowing from Malay diam. For some Chinese speakers, this word is reanalysed as a loan from Hokkien 恬 (tiām, “silent”) or Teochew 恬 (diam⁷, “silent”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.am/, (some speakers) [tjɑm˦˨]

diam

1. (informal, Singapore, chiefly Malaysia) Be quiet.
   • 2004 August 21, intruder, “God so loved the world”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     Diam lah, you have no gal let alone have a son or daughter.

   • 2012 September 23, “Najib wants more time for another run.”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     If the answer is affirmative, then he is qualified to talk to us. Otherwise, diam lah.

   • 2013 June 7, <par@tmnet.net.my>, “Mooted online media control 'not politically motivated'”, in soc.culture.malaysia (Usenet):

     So diam lah, baruah bangsat!

(be quiet):

• Diam lah! (Used to tell someone to shut up)

• Singlish vocabulary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Dima, Madi, aim'd, amid, maid

• diem (colloquial, chiefly Java)

Inherited from Malay diam, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hidəm (“keep something to oneself; silent, secret”). Cognate with Old Javanese ḍyam (“silent”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdiam/ [ˈdi.am]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: di‧am

diam (comparative lebih diam, superlative paling diam)

1. quiet

   Synonyms: pelan, (of animals or humans) pendiam

2. silent

   Synonym: senyap

3. still; stationary (not moving)
4. idle; inactive

diam

1. (intransitive) to stay

   Synonyms: berdiam, menetap

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*hidem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “diam” 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.

• idam, madi

diam

1. accusative feminine singular of dius

• diem (Javanese Malay)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiam/ [ˈdi.am]
• Rhymes: -am

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hidəm.

diam (Jawi spelling ديام)

1. quiet; silent (with little or no sound)
2. still; stationary (not moving)
3. idle; inactive

• senyap / سڽڤ

• Indonesian: diam
• → English: diam

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diam (Jawi spelling ديام)

1. to stay

• duduk (informal)
• tinggal

• “diam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *hidəm

• idam