# aam
## Translingual
### Symbol

aam
* (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Asa.
    Synonym: aas (current)

## English
### Alternative forms

* aum, awm

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːm/, /ɔːm/
* (US) IPA: /ɑm/, /ɔm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːm, -ɔːm

### Noun

aam (plural aams)
* (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]

#### Translations
### References

* 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.

### Anagrams

* AMA, Ama, ama, maa

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

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

### Noun

aam (plural ame, diminutive aampie)
* (historical) aam (a measure for liquids varying between regions, it was roughly 32 wine gallons in South Africa)
* (historical, by extension) a barrel with the volume of one aam

#### Derived terms

* halfaam

### See also

* gelling

## Bakung
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *qaʀəm.

### Noun

aam
* scaly anteater

## Dutch
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: aam
* Rhymes: -aːm
* Homophone: Aam

### Noun

aam n (plural amen)
* aam

#### Descendants

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

## Estonian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑːm/, [ˈɑːm]
* Rhymes: -ɑːm
* Hyphenation: aam

### Noun

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)
* a large barrel
    Synonym: vaat
* (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid, especially alcohol, equivalent to around 140–160 liters)

#### Derived terms

* piiritusaam
* veeaam
* veiniaam
* viinaaam
* õlleaam
* aamissepp
* aamitäis
* aampalk
* aamvõlv

### References

* aam in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “aam”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

## Hunsrik
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔːm/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːm
* Syllabification: aam

### Contraction

aam
* Contraction of aan dem (“at the; on the”).
    Aam Montach hod-s gerehnd.On Monday it rained.

### References

* Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “aam”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 1, column 1

## Mubi
### Noun

ăăm (plural ˀààmé)
* water

### References

* 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

## Sakizaya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ˈam/, [a.ˈam]

### Noun

aam
* congee

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 飲 / 饮 (ám, “rice broth; rice water”) with epenthesis splitting into two syllables (cf. gaas, siim, tiim, and tsaa).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔaˈʔam/ [ʔɐˈʔam]
* Rhymes: -am
* Syllabification: a‧am

### Noun

aám (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜀᜋ᜔) (dialectal, chiefly Batangas)
* Alternative form of am

### Further reading

* “aam”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “aam”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 13

### Anagrams

* ama

## Yola
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːm/

#### Pronoun

aam
* 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.

##### Derived terms

* w'aam

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* am

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aːm/, /am/

#### Verb

aam
* 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.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 21