yam

EnglishEdit

Yams

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PronunciationEdit

(UK, US) enPR: yăm, IPA^(key): /jæm/
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Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1Edit

From Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, possibly from the Fula nyami (“to eat”). The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.

NounEdit

yam (plural yams)

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
(US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
(Scotland) Potato.
(New Zealand) A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
(Malaysia, Singapore) Taro.
An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
yam colour:

Usage notesEdit

Careful use distinguishes yams (genus Dioscorea) from sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas), while casual American use conflates these.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

any Dioscorea vine

Arabic: يَام‎ m (yām)
Armenian: դիոսկոր (dioskor)
Assamese: কাঠ আলু (kath alu)
Bole: doya
Burmese: ပီလောပီနံ (my) (pilau:pinam)
Catalan: nyam m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山藥 (zh) 山药 (zh) (shānyào)
Czech: jam (cs) m
Danish: yams c
Dutch: yam (nl) m, yamplant, yamswortel (nl) m, jam (nl) m
Esperanto: ignamo
Fijian: uvi
Finnish: jamssi (fi)
French: igname (fr) f
Georgian: იამსი (iamsi)
German: Yamswurzel (de) f, Yams (de) f
Haitian Creole: yanm
Hausa: aduru, doya (ha)
Hawaiian: uhi
Hindi: रतालू (hi) m (ratālū), आलू (hi) m (ālū)
Ido: inyamo (io)
Indonesian: ubi (id)
Italian: igname m
Japanese: 山芋 (やまいも, yamaimo), 自然薯 (じねんじょ, jinenjo), ヤマノイモ (yamanoimo)
Karekare: dauya
Kazakh: тәтті картоп (tätti kartop)
Korean: 마 (ko) (ma)

Kurdish: [Arabic needed] (sevetalka hîndî), [Arabic needed] (binerdiya hîndî)
Lao: ເຜີ່ມ (phœ̄m)
Latvian: dioskorėja f
Lithuanian: dioskorėjos
Luhya: enduma
Malagasy: oviala (mg)
Malay: ubi
Maori: uhi, uwhi
Mongolian: йам (jam)
Motu: maho
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jams m

Nynorsk: jams m
Polish: pochrzyn m
Portuguese: inhame (pt) m
Romanian: ignamă (ro) f
Russian: ямс (ru) m (jams)
Spanish: ñame (es) m
Swahili: nduma (sw)
Swedish: jams (sv)
Tagalog: tugi
Tajik: ям (yam)
Thai: มัน (th) (man), สกุลกลอย (sàgun gloi)
Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)
Uzbek: shirin kartoshka
Vietnamese: khoai lang (vi)
Welsh: iam m
Yoruba: iṣu, iyán

its edible root

Central Dusun: guol
Dutch: yam (nl) m, yamswortel (nl) m, jam (nl) m
Hindi: रतालू (hi) m (ratālū), आलू (hi) m (ālū)
Irish: ionam m
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: keladi (ms)
Maori: uhi, uwhi, ngangarangi

Motu: maho
Navajo: nahooyéí
Swahili: nduma (sw)
Thai: มันเสา (man-sǎo), ฮ่วยซัว (hûay sua)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

sweet potato — see sweet potato

potato — see potato

taro — see taro

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative form of hjem. Likely caused by Old Norse influence from Old Norse heim (“home, homewards”), the accusative form of heimr (“abode, world, land”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. More at home.

NounEdit

yam (plural yams)

(regional, Cumberland) home

AnagramsEdit

Amy, MYA, May, Mya, may, mya

AleutEdit

NounEdit

yam

(Eastern) yesterday

ReferencesEdit

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

BuwalEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

NounEdit

yam

water

ReferencesEdit

Mélanie Viljoen, Michael Viljoen, Pascal Konai, François Mbouvai, Ernest Koyang, Benjamin Deli, Précis d’orthographe pour la langue buwal - Édition préliminaire (2009, Yaoundé, SIL Cameroun)