âm

âm

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Ngz. am […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatitical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 音 (“sound”).

âm

1. sound
2. (phonetics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of ngữ âm (“phone”).
3. (phonology, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of âm vị (“phoneme”).
4. (linguistics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tiết (“syllable”).

• âm thanh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰.

âm

1. (occult) yin

âm

1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"

   ngày âm

   a lunar day

2. (mathematics, physics) negative

   điện âm

   negative charges

âm

1. minus

   Synonym: trừ

   -10° (âm 10 độ)

   -10° (minus 10 degrees [Celsius])

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