sâm

• sam, sã

From Portuguese são, from Old Galician-Portuguese son, from Latin sunt.

• IPA^(key): /saŋ/, /sɐŋ/, /sã/

sâm

1. to be

   iou sâm ― I am

   êle sâm ― he is

   nôs sâm ― we are

• To indicate the location of something, têm (literally “have”) is used instead, e.g. iou têm aqui (“I am here”) rather than iou sâm aqui.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *samъ, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

sȃm (Cyrillic spelling са̑м, definite sȃmī)

1. (formal) alternative spelling of sam (Etymology 1 only, spelled specifically to distinguish it from etymology 2)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 蔘 (“ginseng”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [səm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂəm˧˧] ~ [səm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂəm˧˧] ~ [səm˧˧]

(classifier cây, củ) sâm

1. ginseng

   Synonym: nhân sâm

   xứ củ sâm ― a nickname of Korea

2. certain kinds of herbs, notably Eleutherine bulbosa (sâm đại hành)

   nước sâm ― a kind of herbal tea