among

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

amonge (archaic)
amoung (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English among, amang, amonge, amange, from Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- +‎ mong (“crowd; group; throng”). Compare dialectal German mang, Saterland Frisian monk, monken (“among”).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /əˈmʌŋ/
IPA^(key): /əˈmɒŋ/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: a‧mong
Rhymes: -ʌŋ

PrepositionEdit

among

Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)
How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 1:1:
  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […]
Lactose intolerance is common among people of Asian heritage.

Usage notesEdit

For the comparison of among with between, see the usage notes in between.
Many Americans view "amongst" as an archaic/Commonwealth variant, and use "among" exclusively.

SynonymsEdit

amongst (variant of among)
amidst
amid

TranslationsEdit

mingling or intermixing

Arabic: بَيْنَ‎ (ar) (bayna)
Egyptian Arabic: بين‎ (bēn)
Armenian: մեջ (hy) (meǰ), միջև (miǰew)
Asturian: ente (ast)
Azerbaijani: arasında (az)
Belarusian: сяро́д (sjaród), памі́ж (pamíž)
Bengali: মাঝে (majhe)
Bulgarian: сред (bg) (sred), между́ (bg) (meždú)
Catalan: entre (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 其中 (zh) (qízhōng), 之間 (zh), 之间 (zh) (zhījiān)
Czech: mezi (cs)
Danish: mellem (da), blandt (da)
Dutch: tussen (nl), onder (nl)
Egyptian:

(mm),

(jmjtw)
Esperanto: inter (eo)
Finnish: joukossa (fi), keskellä (fi), seassa (fi)
French: parmi (fr)
Middle French: parmy, emmy
Georgian: შორის (šoris)
German: unter (de), zwischen (de)
Greek: ανάμεσα (el) (anámesa)
Haitian Creole: pami
Hebrew: בְּתוֹךְ‎ (b'tokh)
Hindi: के बीच में (ke bīc mẽ), में (hi) (mẽ)
Hungarian: között (hu)
Ido: inter (io)
Indonesian: antara (id), di antara, dalam (id), di tengah
Italian: tra (it), fra (it), in mezzo a
Japanese: 中 (ja) (なか, naka), 間 (ja) (あいだ, aida)
Khmer: នៅក្នុង (nɨv knoŋ), នៅក្នុងចំណោម (nɨv knoŋ cɑmnaom)

Korean: 가운데에 (ko) (gaunde-e), 속에 (ko) (sog-e)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نێوان‎ (ku) (nêwan)
Latvian: starp, vidū
Low German:
German Low German: mang (nds), mank
Macedonian: меѓу (meǵu), помеѓу (pomeǵu)
Malay: dalam kalangan
Malayalam: ഇടയ്ക്ക് (ml) (iṭaykkŭ), ഇടയിൽ (ml) (iṭayil)
Maltese: fost
Mongolian: дунд (mn) (dund), дотор (mn) (dotor)
Navajo: atah
Norman: parmi
Norwegian: blant (no), mellom (no)
Old English: mid, betwēox
Old Saxon: gimang, an gimang
Persian: در میان‎ (dar miyân-e)
Polish: wśród (pl), pośród (pl), między (pl), pomiędzy (pl)
Portuguese: entre (pt)
Romanian: între (ro), printre (ro)
Russian: среди́ (ru) (sredí) / средь (ru) (sredʹ) (+ genitive case), ме́жду (ru) (méždu)
Scots: amang
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: међу

Roman: među
Slovak: medzi
Slovene: med (sl)
Spanish: entre (es)
Swahili: miongoni mwa
Swedish: bland (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: сере́д (seréd), між (miž)
Vietnamese: trong số
Zazaki: myan

belonging to a group

Arabic: مِنْ‎ (ar) (min)
Finnish: kuulua (fi) (verb, to be among), joukossa (fi)

German: untereinander (de)
Malayalam: കൂട്ടത്തിൽ (kūṭṭattil), ഇടയിൽ (ml) (iṭayil)

AnagramsEdit

Gamon, Mogan, ang mo, goman, mango, ngoma

CebuanoEdit

PronunciationEdit

Hyphenation: a‧mong

VerbEdit

among

To be made or become a collateral damage.
To implicate; to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
To drag in.

IbatanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare Yami among.

NounEdit

among

fish

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈamɔŋ/
Hyphenation: abo‧nê‧mèn
Rhymes: -amɔŋ, -mɔŋ, -ɔŋ, -ŋ

NounEdit

among (plural among-among, first-person possessive amongku, second-person possessive amongmu, third-person possessive amongnya)