different between aam vs sam

English

Alternative forms

• aum, awm

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek ??? (ám?, “bucket”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m/, /??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m/, /?m/
• Rhymes: -??m, -??m

Noun

aam (plural aams)

1. (historical) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼. [first attested around 1350 to 1470]

Translations

References

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002) , “aam”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 1
• aam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• AMA, Ama, ama, maa

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ame, aem, from Late Latin ama (Latin hama), from Ancient Greek ??? (ám?, “bucket”), ???? (amá?, “to gather, harvest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?m/
• Hyphenation: aam
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

aam n (plural amen)

1. aam

Descendants

• ? English: aam

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German am, ame.

Noun

aam (genitive aami, partitive aami)

1. a big barrel
2. (historical) an aam (a measure of liquid)

Declension

Derived terms

• aamissepp

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/

Contraction

aam

1. aan + dem, at the, on the

Mubi

Noun

??m (plural ?ààmé)

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Mubi ??m, pl. ?ààmé […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ?ISBN), page 38

Sakizaya

Noun

aam

1. congee

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• am

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien ? (ám, “rice soup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?am/

Noun

aám

1. broth made from boiled rice

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”), dative of hie. Cognate with English 'em.

Pronoun

aam

1. them

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology 1

Acronym

Alternative forms

• SAM

Pronunciation

Noun

sam

1. surface-to-air missile

Etymology 2

From Middle English sammen, samnen, from Old English samnian, ?esamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), from Proto-Germanic *samn?n? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Cognate with Dutch zamelen (“to collect”), German sammeln (“to collect, gather”), Swedish samla (“to gather, collect”), Icelandic samna (“to gather, collect”). More at same.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæm/

Alternative forms

• samen

Verb

sam (third-person singular simple present sams, present participle samming, simple past and past participle sammed)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To assemble.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, of persons) To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal, of things) To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
   • 1905, Keighley Snowden, Princess Joyce

     I sammed it up for ye

4. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To assemble; come together.
5. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To coagulate; curdle (milk).

Usage notes

• Often used with together or up

Derived terms

• stand sam
• upon my sam

Etymology 3

From Middle English s?m (“together”), from Old English samen (“together”), from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”).

Adverb

sam (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Together
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     Now are they saints all in that city sam.

   • a1600, The Battle of Floddon Field:

     All Sam the souldiers then replied.

Etymology 4

From Middle English sam- (prefix), from Old English s?m- (“half-; partly; incompletely”), from Proto-Germanic *s?mi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?mi- (“half”). Related to semi- (via Latin).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæm/

Adjective

sam (not comparable)

1. (dialectal) Half or imperfectly done.
2. (of food) Half-heated.

Related terms

• sammy
• sandblind

Etymology 5

Possibly from Uncle Sam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæm/

Noun

sam (plural sams)

1. (slang) Federal narcotics agent.

Anagrams

• 'ams, -mas, A.M.s, AMS, ASM, M. A. S., M.A.S., M.A.s, MAS, MAs, MSA, Mas, SMA, mas, sma

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?am/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *sam¹ (“grass”). Related to Garo samsi, Garo sam

Noun

sam (Bengali script ???)

1. grass; weed
2. medicine

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

sam- (Bengali script ???)

1. to wait

Etymology 3

Classifier

sam- (Bengali script ???)

1. used with any bilateral body part, hands, eyes, etc. and also tires

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Charrua

Numeral

sam

1. two

References

• El último charrúa: de Salsipuedes a la actualidad (1996)
• Idioma español y habla criolla: Charrúas y vilelas (1968)
• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 62

Chuukese

Noun

sam

1. father

Garo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *sam¹ (“grass”). Related to Atong (India) sam

Noun

sam

1. grass; herb
2. medicine
3. curry

Etymology 2

Classifier

sam

1. used with any bilateral body part, hands, eyes, etc.

Further reading

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon?^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 275

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?m/

Verb

sam (imperfect jsum)

1. to fast

Conjugation

• The perfect tense is often avoided. It can be replaced by kien + imperfect.

Related terms

• sawm

Min Nan

Mizo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)sam.

Noun

sam

1. hair (of the head)
2. antenna (of insects)

Etymology 2

Adjective

sam

1. easy, simple

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”) (compare Welsh haf), from Proto-Indo-European *sm?-h?-ó- (compare Old English sumor, Old Armenian ????? (ama?n)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/

Noun

sam m (genitive unattested, no plural)

1. summer

Inflection

Synonyms

• samrad

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 sam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Norse

Verb

sam

1. second-person singular imperative of sama

Phalura

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam/

Adverb

sam (Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. equally

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sam?, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam/

Adjective

sam (not always comparable, comparative bardziej sam, superlative najbardziej sam)

1. (comparable) alone, without company
2. (not comparable) myself, yourself, himself, etc. (emphatic determiner, used similarly to "no other than" or "the very", as in "I myself")

3. (not comparable) by oneself, alone, by own volition or power, without outside help or encouragement

Declension

Related terms

• (adjectives) samotniczy, samotny
• (nouns) samotnica, samotniczka, samotnictwo, samotnik, samotno??

Further reading

• sam in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rohingya

Etymology

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

Noun

sam

1. skin

Romani

Verb

sam

1. first-person plural present indicative of si

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sam?, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

Adjective

s?m (definite s?m?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. alone, sole
2. unaided, single-handed
3. absolute, very, mere, unmixed
4. solitary, secluded

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *(j)esm?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *esmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi.

Verb

s?m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. first-person singular present tense enclitic form of biti.

   Tu sam. — I'm here.

Silesian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *s?mo.

Pronoun

sam

1. here

   Synonym: tukej

2. hither

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sam?, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sá?m/

Adjective

s?m (not comparable)

1. alone, sole
2. unaided, single-handed, by oneself

Inflection

Derived terms

• sámost
• samoglásnik
• samomòr
• samostálnik
• samoróg
• samostán

Further reading

• “sam”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sam/

Verb

sam

1. past tense of simma.

Vietnamese

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kt?aam (“crab”) (Norman & Mei, 1976; mistakenly glossed as "king crab"). However, Shorto (2006) includes no such derivation. Compare Vietnamese ?am (“field crab”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [sa?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?a?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [?a?m??] ~ [sa?m??]

Noun

(classifier con) sam • (????, ????)

1. a horseshoe crab

Further reading

• Proto-Austro-Asiatic ta:m "crab" at Tower of Babel Project

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *sa?m (“three”), from Middle Chinese ? (MC s?m, “three”). Cognate with Thai ??? (s?am), Northern Thai ????, Lao ??? (s?m), Lü ??? (?aam), Tai Dam ???, Shan ???? (s?am), Tai Nüa ???? (sáam), Ahom ???????? (sam), Bouyei saaml.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?a?m??/
• Tone numbers: sam¹
• Hyphenation: sam

Numeral

sam (old orthography sam)

1. three