among

English

Alternative forms

• amonge (archaic)
• amoung (obsolete)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmʌŋ/
• IPA^(key): /əˈmɒŋ/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: a‧mong
• Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Preposition

among

1. 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?

2. 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.

3. 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 notes

• 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.

Synonyms

• amongst (variant of among)
• amidst
• amid

Translations

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, betweox
• 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)

See also

• between
• within

Anagrams

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

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧mong

Verb

among

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

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Ibatan

Noun

among

1. fish

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Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

among

1. party; banquet

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• amang, amonkes, omang

Etymology

From Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- +‎ mong.

Preposition

among

1. among

Descendants

• English: among
• Scots: among
• Yola: amang

References

• “among(es, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adverb

among

1. among

References

• “among(es, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧mong
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔamoŋ/, [ˈʔɐmoŋ]

Noun

among

1. (vulgar, colloquial) priest

   Synonym: pari

2. (colloquial) boss; chief; master

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Yami

Noun

among

1. fish