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/
• 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

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/

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

aam n (plural amen)

1. aam

• → English: aam

From Middle Low German am, ame.

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)

1. a big barrel
2. (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid)

• aamissepp

• IPA^(key): /ɔːm/

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aam

1. aan + dem, at the, on the

   Aam Montach hod-s gerehnd.

   On Monday it rained.

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

aam

1. congee

• am

Contraction of Hokkien 泔淊 (ám-ám).[1][2] Compare Cebuano am-am (“(childish) food”), Sakizaya aam (“congee”).

• Hyphenation: a‧am
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈʔam/, [ʔɐˈʔam]

aám

1. broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng aam ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.

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

aam

1. them

• w'aam

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

• am

aam

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

     Fan ich aam in this miseree.

     When I am in this misery.

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 21 & 104