aam

• 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]

• “aam” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860457-0, page 1.
• aam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

From Middle Dutch ame, aem, from Late Latin ama (Latin hama), from Ancient Greek ἄμη (ámē, “bucket”), ἀμάω (amáō, “to gather, harvest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”).

• IPA^(key): /aːm/

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• Hyphenation: aam
• Rhymes: -aːm

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/

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 9789004115385, page 201:

  […] 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 9042908262), page 38

• am

Borrowed from Hokkien 泔 (ám, “rice soup”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.ˈam/

aám

1. broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng aam ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.

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

aam

1. them