From a (“atto-”) +‎ m (“meter”).

am

1. (metrology) Symbol for attometer (attometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁸ meters (metres).

Clipping of English Amharic.

am

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Amharic.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Amharic terms

From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).

Cognate with Old Norse em (Old Swedish æm (“am”)), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Ancient Greek εἰμῐ́ (eimĭ́, “am”), Old Armenian եմ (em, “am”), Albanian jam (“am”).

• (stressed form) IPA^(key): /æm/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [ẽə̯̃m], [ɛ̃ə̯̃m]

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [am], [æm]
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [æ̝m], [ɛm], [e̞m]
• (unstressed form) IPA^(key): /əm/
• Rhymes: -æm

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of be
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:23:

     He ſaid, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderneſſe: Make ſtraight the way of the Loꝛd, as ſaid the Pꝛophet Eſaias.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Marsha, I am in the kitchen!

am

1. (informal or dialectal) Contraction of I am.

am (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of a.m..
   • 2017, Huei-Ru Hsieh et al., “Lessons Learned from the 0801 Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City”, in Fire Science and Technology 2015: The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology‎^[2], →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:

     On 1 August 2014 at approximately 12 am, in Lingya and Chienchen Districts of Kaohsiung City, a series of explosions from underground pipelines and sewer system occurred.

• -ma-, M&A, M.A., MA, Ma, ma

IPA^(key): /am/

am class II gender m

1. breadfruit
2. breadfruit seeds
3. a very sticky liquid from the breadfruit tree, used as traditional glue

SIL International (2020) “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[3]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qəm (“jaw, chin”).

• (Myanmar) /am˧/

am

1. jaw
   • 2010, “Job 41:2”, in Ngochang Common Language Bible‎^[4], Yangon: Bible Society of Myanmar:

     Nyah am mha nghweh yoh jauh lhyeh?

     Can you pass through its jaw with a hook?

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[5], Payap University, page 1

• amu

The verb as a whole derives from forms of the Latin habeō, habēre. The first-person present singular form am(u), along with some other inflected forms, may have been analogical constructions (in this case, from an old form (aemu) of first-person plural (now avem)), or influenced by nearby languages. Compare Romanian avea, am; cf. also Albanian kam (“to have”). The third-person singular present indicative, ari, may have derived from Latin haberet.

am first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative ari or are, imperfect aveam, simple perfect avui, past participle avutã)

1. to have
2. to own
3. (auxiliary, with past participles) to have ...

• aveari / aveare
• avut
• avutsãscu

Inherited from Proto-Oghuz اَمْ (am), from Proto-Turkic *am. Cognate with Turkish and Turkmen am. Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.

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am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

1. (vulgar) cunt

   Synonyms: amcıq, dıllaq, dındıq, mıtıq

Borrowed from Arabic عَام (ʕām).

am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

1. (Classical Azerbaijani) year

   Synonyms: il, sal, sənə

• “am” in Obastan.com.

From Hokkien 飲 / 饮 (ám).

am

1. rice water

• Baba Malay Dictionary

From Proto-Mayan *Am.

am

1. spider

• Hull, Kerry (2016) A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Mayan-Spanish-English, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 52

am

1. First-person plural exclusive pronoun; us (exclusive)

• an

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

am (singular)

1. (possessive) my

   suudu am

   my house

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular). However, an is more common in Pular.

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

am

1. mat

• amipang
• ampatchi

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[6], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 35
• Mason, M.C. (1904) , English-Garo Dictionary, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, India
• Garo-Hindi-English Learners' Dictionary, North-Eastern Hill University Publications, Shillong

• IPA^(key): /am/

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• Rhymes: -am

am

1. (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun) an + dem, at the, on the

   am Ende ― at the end

   am Rande ― on the margin(s)

   am Leben ― alive

2. (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun) auf + dem, on the, at the

   am Berg ― on the mountain

   am Fest ― at the festival

   am Schirm ― on the screen

3. Forms the superlative in adverbial and predicate use.

   am schnellsten ― fastest

   am schwächsten ― weakest

   am wichtigsten ― most important

   Er spielt am besten.

   He plays best.

• “am” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Abbreviation.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmuːɟ]

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am

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) abbreviation of amúgy (“otherwise, anyway; by the way”)

From Malay am, from Classical Malay عام (am), from Arabic عَامّ (ʕāmm).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈam/
• Rhymes: -am, -m
• Hyphenation: am

am

1. common, general

   Synonyms: umum, awam

2. common (not expert)

• “am” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Irish amm,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *ammen-, *ammo-, probably ultimately from the root of aimser (“point in time”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /aumˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /ɑːmˠ/, /amˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /amˠ/^[2]

am m (genitive singular ama, nominative plural amanna or amanta)

1. time

Alternative declension

• dom, dom'

• IPA^(key): /əmˠ/

am (triggers lenition)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) contraction of do mo (“to/for my”)

• im, 'mo

• IPA^(key): /əmˠ/

am (triggers lenition)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) contraction of i mo (“in my”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “am”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “am”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 25
• “am”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

am

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

am

1. water

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

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

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Kfy. am [Ntg. 1967, 1], […]

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

am

1. water

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

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

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Lgn. a̲m [Mch.] = àm (pl.) [Lks.] = ˀàm [Bouny] = ˀàm [Bouny 1975 MS, 5, #58], Bdm. amaii "water", amai "rain" [Talbot 1911, 252] […]

am

1. contraction of an + dem; in the

am

1. earth

• Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology
• Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

From Latin habeo.

am

1. I have.

• veari / veri

From Old English eam, eom, from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, first-person singular of *wesaną.

• ame, em

• IPA^(key): /am/, /ɛm/

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of been
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[7], published c. 1410, Joon 1:23, page 43v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     he ſeide / I am a vois of a crier in deſert .· dꝛeſſe ȝe þe weie of þe loꝛd. as yſaie þe pꝛophete ſeide

     He said: "I am the voice of a crier in the wilderness; straighten the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said."

• More common than be as a first-person singular form.

• English: am
• Scots: am
• Yola: aam, am

am

1. alternative form of hem (“them”)

From Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi. Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (a-b-i-y /⁠abiy⁠/, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).

• IPA^(key): /am/

am (triggers lenition)

1. about
2. for, on account of
3. concerning, as regards

• first-person singular: amdanaf
• second-person singular: amdanat
• third-person singular masculine: amdanaw, ymdanaw, ymdanw
• third-person singular feminine: amdanei

• am pen (“upon”)
• gwiscaw am (“to put on (clothes etc.)”)
• y am (“off; apart from”)

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

àm

1. water

• Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A Grammar of Mupun (1993)
• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122
• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

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

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Sura àm "Wasser, Flüssigkeit" [Jng. 1963, 58], Mpn. àm [Frj. 1991, 3], […]

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

am

1. water
2. rain

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

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

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Angas am "1. water, 2. rain" [Ormsby 1914, 314-315] = am "water (to drink of wash with)" [Flk. 1915, 143] = […]

am

1. him/her/it
   • 1960, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, page 85:

     Where you pick am?

     Where did you pick it?

   • 2013, Yemi Alade, “Johnny”, in King of Queens:

     And he talk say I no do am like the way Cynthia dey do

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2024 March 17, Selin Girit and Grujica Andric, “Wetin go happun to your social media accounts wen you die”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[8]:

     "I don do am almost 20 times and notin dey happun. I no kuku get di strength contact Facebook to fix am."

     "I have messaged him almost 20 times and nothing has happened. I don't really have the strength to contact Facebook to fix it."

am

1. imperative of amme

am

1. imperative of amme

am

1. (Northumbrian) first-person singular present indicative of wesan

• 17, Skeat, Walter Wiliams 'The Gospel according to Saint Luke: in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions synoptically'

• IPA^(key): [am]

From Proto-Celtic *emmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esmi, from *h₁es- (“to be”).

• amm

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of is

am n

1. alternative spelling of amm (“time”)

ám

1. water

• Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A grammar of Pero (1989)

am

1. mother

• IPA^(key): /am/
• Rhymes: -am

Inflected form of avea. Probably an analogical construction based on the old first-person plural or perhaps influenced by similar forms in other languages.^[1] Compare Aromanian am(u); cf. also Albanian kam (“I have”).

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of avea

   (I) have

2. first-person singular present subjunctive of avea

From old Romanian amu, presumably from an earlier (proto-) Romanian form aemu (attested in Aromanian), from Latin habēmus. The original first-person singular in proto-Romanian was aibu, from Latin habeō, but was changed to am(u) by analogy with the first-person plural. The form with -v- (avem) in the present form of the verb's main conjugation (as opposed to its use in this form as an auxiliary verb) may have been remade by analogy with avut;^[2] am may also be seen as a reduced, clitic form of avem.^[3] See also ați, which has a parallel development.

am

1. (eu) am (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)

   (I) have...

   Eu am câștigat meciul.

   I have won the match.

2. (noi) am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)

   (we) have...

   Noi am fost la biserică duminică.

   We have been to church on Sunday.

• ai
• a
• ați
• au

Presumably from a Vulgar Latin *eamus, from Latin habēbāmus.

am

1. (noi) am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with infinitives to form conditional tenses)

   (we) would

• aș
• ai
• ar
• ați

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. nominative singular masculine preceding f-
   2. nominative singular masculine preceding b-, m-, p-

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am

1. Form of an (“their”) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am (+ dative, no mutation, before the definite article anns, combined with the singular definite article san, sa, combined with the plural definite article sna)

1. Form of an (“in”) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

• ann am

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am

1. Form of an (interrogative particle) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

am

1. Form of an (present interrogative copula) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 32-33

• IPA^(key): /a ˈeme/ [a ˈe.me]
• Syllabification: am

am

1. a.m. (before noon)

   Antonym: pm

am

1. romanization of 𒄠 (am)

• aam — dialectal, chiefly Batangas

Borrowed from Hokkien 飲 / 饮 (ám, “rice broth; rice water”).^[1][2]

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔam/ [ˈʔam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: am

am (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ᜔)

1. rice water; white broth made from boiled rice

   Bigyan mo ng am ang bata.

   Give the child some rice broth.

• “am”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “am”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• Ma., Ma, ma, ma-

am

1. water

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

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

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Tng. am [Jng.], […]

• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

am (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵎ)

1. like

   Synonym: amecnaw

   netta d ameḥḍar am necc ― He is a student like me.

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˦]

am

1. overly soft and sticky from having too much water; pasty; viscid; clammy; soggy

   mỏ khảu bặng chảo am ― the rice in the pot is overly soft like soup

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[9][10] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[11] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آم, from Proto-Oghuz اَمْ (am), from Proto-Turkic *am.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm/
• Hyphenation: am
• Rhymes: -ɑm

am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy (genitalia)

• “am”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “am”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “am”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “am”, in Köken Bilgisi Sözlüğü‎^[12], Türk Dil Kurumu, 2011–
• “am”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

am

1. spider

am

1. spider

• Leamos uspanteco: Kawitojtak kibꞌ chi rilic jwich wuj laj tzijbꞌal ajtilmit: En uspanteco y español‎^[13] (overall work in Spanish and Uspanteco), ILV, 1998, page 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 庵.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˧]

(classifier cái) am

1. small Buddhist temple, small pagoda
2. hermitage, secluded hut, cottage

• ma

am

1. water

• Jeremy Brightbill, Amy Kim, Seung Kim, The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2007-013: 153, page 58

• (about; for): amdan

From Middle Welsh am, from Old Welsh im, from Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi.

Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (a-b-i-y /⁠abiy⁠/, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).

• IPA^(key): /am/

am (triggers soft mutation)

1. (with most verbs) about, concerning

   Synonyms: parthed, ynghylch, ynglŷn â

2. (with certain verbs) for, in exchange for
3. (time) at
4. (in exclamations) what a (+noun), how (+adjective)

   Am lanastr! ― What a mess!

   Am annheg! ― How unfair!

am

1. because (followed by fod or a “that”-clause)

   Fydd e ddim yma heddiw am ei fod e’n sâl.

   He won’t be here today as he’s sick.

• achos
• oherwydd

• IPA^(key): /ˈam/

am

1. (transitive) to eat

The verb am ("to eat") takes the same verbal prefixes that directional verbs do.

• a

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[14], Pacific linguistics

am

1. alternative form of aam
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.

     To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106

From Proto-Mayan *Am.

• IPA^(key): [ˈam]

am (plural amoʼob)

1. spider

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 176: “Araña otra. Am. .... Eſta mata. ― Another spider. Am. .... This one kills.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 50