âm

Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.

âm

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]: […] Ngz. am […]

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔəm˧˧]

• Audio (Hà Nội)

  (file)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 音 (“sound”).

âm

1. sound
2. (phonetics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of ngữ âm (“phone”).
3. (phonology, colloquial) clipping of âm vị (“phoneme”).
4. (linguistics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tiết (“syllable”).

• âm thanh

Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰.

âm

1. (occult) yin

âm

1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"

   ngày âm

   a lunar day

2. (mathematics, physics) negative

   điện âm

   negative charges

âm

1. minus; negative

   Synonym: trừ

   -10° (âm 10 độ)

   -10° (minus/negative 10 degrees [Celsius])

• dương