Assamese

See also: assamese

English

Etymology

From Assam +‎ -ese.

Adjective

Assamese (comparative more Assamese, superlative most Assamese)

1. Of, from or relating to the northeast-Indian state of Assam, or the region for which it is named.
2. In or relating to its majority people's Indo-Aryan language.

   Only three in five Assamese (citizens of Assam) are linguistic Assamese.

Translations

of, from or relating to Assam

• Assamese: অসমীয়া (oxomia)
• Bengali: অসমীয়া (bn) (ôśômiẏa), আসামী (aśami), অসমী (ôśômi)
• Catalan: assamès (ca)
• Dutch: Assamees (nl) n, Assami (nl) n
• Finnish: assamilainen
• Hindi: असमिया (asmiyā)
• Portuguese: assamês (pt)
• Russian: асса́мский (ru) (assámskij)
• Spanish: asamés
• Urdu: آسَامِی (āsāmi)
• Western Panjabi: آسَامِی (āsāmi)

Noun

Assamese (plural Assameses or Assamese)

1. A member of the people of Assam.

Proper noun

Assamese

1. The Indo-Aryan language spoken by the majority people in the state of Assam, NE India.

Derived terms

• Early Assamese
• Middle Assamese

Translations

language

• Arabic: أَسَامِيَّة f (ʔasāmiyya)
• Armenian: ասսամի (hy) (assami)
• Assamese: অসমীয়া (oxomia)
• Bengali: অসমীয়া (bn) (ośomiẏa)
• Catalan: assamès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿薩密語／阿萨密语 (āsàmìyǔ)

• Danish: assamesisk
• Dutch: Assamees (nl) n, Assami (nl) n, Assamitisch (nl) n
• Finnish: assami (fi)
• French: assamais (fr) m
• German: Assamesisch (de) n
• Gujarati: આસામી (gu) (āsāmī)
• Hebrew: אסאמית
• Hindi: आसामी (hi) f (āsāmī), असमिया f (asmiyā)
• Indonesian: bahasa Assam
• Irish: Asaimis f
• Japanese: アッサム語 (ja) (assamugo)
• Kannada: ಅಸ್ಸಾಮೀಸ್ (assāmīs)
• Korean: 아삼어 (asameo)
• Norman: Assamais m
• Persian: آسَامِی (fa) (âsâmi)
• Polish: język asamski
• Portuguese: assamês (pt) m
• Rabha: লেমা কাথা
• Russian: асса́мский (ru) m (assámskij), асса́ми m (assámi)
• Sanskrit: असमिया (asamiyā)
• Spanish: asamés m
• Swedish: assamesiska (sv)
• Telugu: అస్సామీ భాష (assāmī bhāṣa)
• Urdu: آسَامِی (āsāmi)
• Western Panjabi: آسَامِی (āsāmi)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Assamese terms
• Appendix:Assamese Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Assamese
• ISO 639-1 code as, ISO 639-3 code asm (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Assamese, asm ⁠
• “Assamese”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.