different between ami vs ambition

Birgit

Noun

ami

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]: […] Birgit ?àmì [Jng. 1973 MS] […]

Catalan

Verb

ami

1. first-person singular present subjunctive form of amar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of amar
3. third-person singular imperative form of amar

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?mi

Noun

ami

1. a sapling

Chuukese

Pronoun

ami

1. Second-person plural pronoun; you (plural)

See also

Eggon

Noun

ami

1. water

References

• R. Blench, Ake wordlist (lists the Eggon word in notes)

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian amare, from Latin amare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.mi/
• Hyphenation: a?mi

Verb

ami (present amas, past amis, future amos, conditional amus, volitive amu)

1. (transitive) to love

   Antonym: malami

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

French

Etymology

From Middle French amy, ami, from Old French ami, amic, from Latin am?cus. Compare Catalan amic, Italian amico, Portuguese amigo, Romanian amic, Sardinian amícu, Spanish amigo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mi/
• Homophones: amict, amicts, amie, amies, amis
• Hyphenation: a?mi

Noun

ami m (plural amis, feminine amie)

1. friend (one who is affectionately attached to another)
2. male friend

Derived terms

• chambre d'ami
• conseil d'ami
• en ami
• meilleur ami
• petit ami
• prix d'ami
• tir ami

Related terms

• amical
• amitié

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: zanmi

See also

• ami·e·s

Further reading

• “ami” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mai

Hiligaynon

Noun

ami or amí

1. The second harvest.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??mi]
• Hyphenation: ami
• Rhymes: -mi

Pronoun

ami

1. (relative) which; that

Declension

Synonyms

• amely
• amelyik

Derived terms

(Expressions):

• ami elmúlt, elmúlt
• ami igaz, az igaz
• ami sok, az sok
• lesz, ami lesz
• nem mind arany, ami fénylik

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ami/

Noun

ami

1. plural of amo

Italian

Verb

ami

1. second-person singular indicative present of amare
2. first/second/third-person singular subjunctive present of amare
3. third-person singular imperative of amare

Anagrams

• mai
• mia

Japanese

Romanization

ami

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Spanish mi

Pronoun

ami

1. I, me

Latin

Alternative forms

• ammi

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (ámi), itself probably from Egyptian.

Noun

ami n (indeclinable)

1. bisnaga (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga)

References

• ami in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Occitan

Noun

ami m (plural amis)

1. (Mistralian) Alternative form of amic

Old French

Alternative forms

• amic (La Vie de Saint Alexis, 11^th century manuscripts)

Etymology

From Latin am?cus.

Noun

ami m (oblique plural amis, nominative singular amis, nominative plural ami)

1. friend

Related terms

• amie f

Descendants

• Champenois: amin, anmin
• Middle French: amy, ami
  • French: ami
    • Haitian Creole: zanmi
• Norman: amin

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• mi (synonym)

Etymology

From Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu ami.

Pronoun

ami

1. I, me, my.

Pass Valley Yali

Noun

ami

1. uncle (mother's brother)

References

• Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 25

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) amitg
• (Surmiran) amei
• (Puter) amih

Etymology

From Latin am?cus

Noun

ami m (plural amis)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) (male) friend, boyfriend

Synonyms

• cumpogn
• (Rumantsch Grischun) camarat
• (Vallader) camarad

Coordinate terms

• (gender): amia

Sicilian

Verb

ami

1. second-person singular present active indicative of amari
2. second-person singular present active subjunctive of amari

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of amigo or amiga.

Noun

ami m or f (plural amis)

1. (colloquial) friend; bud

Swahili

Alternative forms

• amu

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?amm, “paternal uncle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ami (n class, plural ami)

1. paternal uncle

Coordinate terms

• mjomba (“maternal uncle”)

Tacana

Noun

ami

1. blood

Tangam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ami/

Noun

ami

1. person

References

• Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, ?ISBN

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English army.

Noun

ami

1. army

Warao

Noun

ami

1. louse

Yeyi

Noun

ami

1. water

References

• Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)

Zia

Etymology

From Proto-Trans-New Guinea *amu.

Noun

ami

1. breast

English

Etymology

From Middle English ambicion, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambiti? (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambi? (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?.??n/

Noun

ambition (countable and uncountable, plural ambitions)

1. (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
   • 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

     the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres

2. (countable) An object of an ardent desire.

3. A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
4. (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
5. (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ambition.

Related terms

• ambience
• ambient
• ambit
• ambitious
• ambitionist

Translations

Verb

ambition (third-person singular simple present ambitions, present participle ambitioning, simple past and past participle ambitioned)

1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
   • 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus

     Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.

Further reading

• ambition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ambition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Danish

Noun

ambition c

1. ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiøs

Further reading

• “ambition” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ambition” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Finnish

Noun

ambition

1. Genitive singular form of ambitio.

French

Etymology

From Latin ambiti?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bi.sj??/

Noun

ambition f (plural ambitions)

1. ambition (feeling)

Related terms

• ambitieux
• ambitionner

Further reading

• “ambition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

ambition c

1. en ambition

Declension

Related terms

• ambitiös