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/

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• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

Inherited from Dutch aam, from Middle Dutch ame, aem, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”).

aam (plural ame, diminutive aampie)

1. (historical) aam (a measure for liquids varying between regions, it was roughly 32 wine gallons in South Africa)
2. (historical, by extension) a barrel with the volume of one aam

• halfaam

• gelling

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
• → Russian: аа́м (aám)
• →? Old Swedish: aam
  • → Finnish: aami

From Middle Low German am, ame, from Latin ama (“firebucket”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́μη (ámē, “bucket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːm/, [ˈɑːm]
• Rhymes: -ɑːm
• Hyphenation: aam

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)

1. a large barrel

   Synonym: vaat

2. (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid, especially alcohol, equivalent to around 140–160 liters)

• aam in Sõnaveeb
• M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “aam”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)

• IPA^(key): /ɔːm/
• Rhymes: -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 (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜀᜋ᜔)

1. broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng aam ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːm/

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

aam

1. them
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 53:

     Leth aam.

     Let them.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:

     Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe (o') aam 'twode snite.

     They kicked and rolled, the few (of them) that appeared.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Jaane got leigheen; shoo pleast aam all, fowe?

     Joan set them a laughing, she pleased them all, how?

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Shoo ya aam zim to doone, as w' be doone nowe;

     She gave them some to do, as we are doing now;

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:

     Craneen t' thee wee aam, thee luggès shell aake.

     Choking to thee with them. Thy ears shall ache.

• w'aam

From Middle English am, 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, page 104:

     Fan ich aam in this miseree.

     When I am in this misery.

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.

     To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,

   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Ich aam a vat hog it's drue. Aar is ken apan aam.

     I am a fat hog, 'tis true. There is ken upon them.

• 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