yam

See also: yàm, yâm, yaṃ, y am, and þ.á.m

EnglishEdit

Yams.

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PronunciationEdit

(UK, US) 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.

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)
Bole: doya
Burmese: ပီလောပီနံ (my) ‎(pilau:pinam)
Catalan: nyam m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山藥山药 (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)
Indonesian: ubi (id)
Italian: igname
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: sevetalka hîndî, 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
Uzbek: shirin kartoshka
Vietnamese: khoai lang (vi)
Welsh: iam m
Yoruba: iṣu, iyán

its edible root

Dutch: yam (nl) m, yamswortel (nl) m, jam (nl) m
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Maori: uhi, uwhi, uwhi
Motu: maho

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

sweet potato — see sweet potato

potato — see potato

Etymology 2Edit

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NounEdit

yam ‎(plural yams)

(regional, Cumberland) home

AnagramsEdit

Amy, May, may, MYA, Mya, mya

BuwalEdit

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)