different between jane vs adam

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophone: Jain

Etymology 1

From Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).

Noun

jane (plural janes)

1. (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
   • 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,

     His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

jane (plural janes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
2. Alternative spelling of jean
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production

     Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?

3. A female client of a prostitute.

Anagrams

• Jaen, Jaén, Jean, Jena, jean

Japanese

Romanization

jane

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

jane

1. locative singular of jana
2. accusative plural of jana

Afar

Etymology 1

From Arabic ????? (??dam).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?m/
• Hyphenation: a?dam

Noun

ádam m 

1. human

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?m/
• Hyphenation: a?dam

Verb

adám

1. imperative singular of adamé

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 51

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??dam), from Proto-Semitic *?adm-; cognates with Hebrew ?????? (âdâm), Akkadian ???????? (adamu), Ugaritic ???????????? (?dm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?m/
• Hyphenation: a?adam

Noun

adam (definite accusative adam?, plural adamlar)

1. human, person
2. someone, somebody, an important person

Declension

Synonyms

• insan
• n?f?r (when counting people)

Derived terms

• adamöldürm? (“homicide”)

Pronoun

adam

1. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).

Declension

References

Kalasha

Noun

adam

1. body
2. A piece (of something)

Kavalan

Noun

adam

1. bird

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

adam

1. Certain properties of a person, often derived from the biblical story

   Den gamle adam (“sinful human nature”, literally “the old adam”)

   Adams drakt or adamsdrakt (“to be naked”, literally “Adam's costume”)

2. Used in sayings and proverbs

   Hvor lenge var Adam i paradis? (“Happiness is often short-lived”, literally “How long was Adam in Paradise?”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the name of Adam in the book of Genesis.

Noun

adam m (definite singular adamen, indefinite plural adamar, definite plural adamane)

1. (metonymically) man

   Coordinate term: eva

2. (figuratively) original sin or human frailty

   Synonym: arvesynd

Derived terms

• adamsdrakt f
• adamsnatur f
• adamsslekt f
• adamsætt f
• den gamle adam
• den nye adam
• i adams drakt

References

• “adam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Adam, dama, mada

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??dam), from Proto-Semitic *?adm-; cognates with Hebrew ?????? (âdâm), Akkadian ???????? (adamu), Ugaritic ???????????? (?dm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?m/

Noun

adam (definite accusative adam?, plural adamlar)

1. human
2. man (adult human male)

Declension

Synonyms

• (human): insan
• (man): erkek

Antonyms

• (man): kad?n

Derived terms

• adam öldürme
• kardan adam

Further reading

• adam in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu