hiam

See also: hiâm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 薟／莶 (hiam, “spicy”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

hiam (comparative more hiam, superlative most hiam)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) Of food: hot and spicy.
    • 2011 Aug, “STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!”, in suituapui.wordpress.com‎, retrieved 12 August 2016:
      At best, it was just so-so – nothing like what we would cook for ourselves at home. It was not “hiam” enough probably from the lack of ginger or ginger juice and there was insufficient wine.

Anagrams

Jarai

Adjective

hiam

  1. beautiful
  2. good, fine

References

Siu, Lap Minh (December 2009) Developing the First Preliminary Dictionary of North American Jarai‎, Texas Tech University, page 79

Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of hiam – see 薟 (“spicy; etc.”).
(This character, hiam, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 薟.)

Portuguese

Verb

hiam

  1. Obsolete spelling of iam
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