xem

xem

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kembayan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kembayan terms

• IPA^(key): /zɛm/, /hɛm/, /ksɛm/

xem

1. (nonstandard) Object-case of xe.
   • 1997, Jared Blackburn, in bit.listserv.autism [1]

     Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."

   • 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

     The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.

• MEX, Mex, Mex., mex

xem (Raguileo spelling)

1. adult

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

From Arabic غم.

• IPA^(key): /xɛm/

xem f (Arabic spelling خەم)

1. grief, sorrow, distress, worry, concern

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “xem”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎^[2], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 653

xem

1. two

• xen

• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), page 128 (notes that this form, and xen, is used in both Timote and Cuica)

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 占 (“to observe; to watch”, SV: chiêm).

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

• Audio (Saigon):

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xem • (䀡, 䄡, 占, 袩, 覘, 𫀅)

1. to see; to look at; to watch; to read
2. to examine; to consider; to evaluate; to read (palm, future, etc.)

• At the end of a sentence or after a verb xem means "to do something to see a result"

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