yam

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /jæm/
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• [jeəm] ~ [jɛəm] General American, æ-raising
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /jam/
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• Australia: /jæːm/
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• New-Zealand: /jɛm/
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Borrowed from Cantonese 任 (jam4).

Borrowed from Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, likely from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”) or a related word. The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.

Alternative form of hjem. Likely caused by influence from Old Norse heim (“home, homewards”), the accusative form of heimr (“abode, world, land”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. More at home.

Ultimately from Fula nyaamude (“to eat”) or a cognate Fula-Wolof term.

Apparently a variation of jam (“dunk”, verb).

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ajië: mëu — any Dioscorea vine
• Aklanon: ubi — any Dioscorea vine
• Arabic: يَام (yām) — any Dioscorea vine
• Armenian: դիոսկոր (dioskor) — any Dioscorea vine
• Assamese: কাঠ আলু (kath alu) — any Dioscorea vine
• Bole: doya — any Dioscorea vine
• Bulgarian: ямс (jams) — any Dioscorea vine
• Burmese: ပီလောပီနံ (pilau:pinam) — any Dioscorea vine
• Catalan: nyam — any Dioscorea vine
• Chinese Mandarin: 山藥 /山药 (shānyào) — any Dioscorea vine
• Czech: jam — any Dioscorea vine
• Danish: yams — any Dioscorea vine
• Dutch: yam — any Dioscorea vine
• Dutch: yamplant — any Dioscorea vine
• Dutch: yamswortel — any Dioscorea vine
• Dutch: jam — any Dioscorea vine
• Esperanto: ignamo — any Dioscorea vine
• Farefare: busre — any Dioscorea vine
• Farefare: busa — any Dioscorea vine
• Fijian: uvi — any Dioscorea vine
• Finnish: jamssi — any Dioscorea vine
• French: igname — any Dioscorea vine
• Georgian: იამსი (iamsi) — any Dioscorea vine
• German: Yamswurzel — any Dioscorea vine
• German: Yams — any Dioscorea vine
• Haitian Creole: yanm — any Dioscorea vine
• Hausa: aduru — any Dioscorea vine
• Hausa: doya — any Dioscorea vine
• Hawaiian: uhi — any Dioscorea vine
• Hindi: रतालू (ratālū) — any Dioscorea vine
• Hindi: आलू (ālū) — any Dioscorea vine
• Hungarian: jamsz — any Dioscorea vine
• Hungarian: jam — any Dioscorea vine
• Ido: inyamo — any Dioscorea vine
• Indonesian: ubi — any Dioscorea vine
• Italian: igname — any Dioscorea vine
• Japanese: 山芋 (yamaimo) — any Dioscorea vine
• Japanese: 自然薯 (jinenjo) — any Dioscorea vine
• Japanese: ヤマノイモ (yamanoimo) — any Dioscorea vine
• Javanese: téla rambat — any Dioscorea vine
• Karekare: dauya — any Dioscorea vine
• Kazakh: тәтті картоп (tättı kartop) — any Dioscorea vine
• Kongo: mbala — any Dioscorea vine
• Korean: 마 (ma) — any Dioscorea vine
• Northern Kurdish: سەڤەتالکا ھیندی (sevetalka hîndî) — any Dioscorea vine
• Northern Kurdish: بنەریا ھیندی (binerdiya hîndî) — any Dioscorea vine
• Lao: ເຜີ່ມ (phœ̄m) — any Dioscorea vine
• Latvian: dioskorėja — any Dioscorea vine
• Lithuanian: dioskorėjos — any Dioscorea vine
• Luhya: enduma — any Dioscorea vine
• Malagasy: oviala — any Dioscorea vine
• Malay: ubi — any Dioscorea vine
• Malayalam: കാച്ചിൽ (kāccil) — any Dioscorea vine
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: uvi — any Dioscorea vine
• Mansaka: obi — any Dioscorea vine
• Māori: uhi — any Dioscorea vine
• Māori: uwhi — any Dioscorea vine
• Mongolian: йам (jam) — any Dioscorea vine
• Moore: busa — any Dioscorea vine
• Moore: busri — any Dioscorea vine
• Moore: busa — any Dioscorea vine
• Motu: maho — any Dioscorea vine
• Norwegian Bokmål: jams — any Dioscorea vine
• Norwegian Nynorsk: jams — any Dioscorea vine
• Nupe: eci — any Dioscorea vine
• Polish: pochrzyn — any Dioscorea vine
• Polish: jam — any Dioscorea vine
• Polish: ignam — any Dioscorea vine
• Portuguese: inhame — any Dioscorea vine
• Romanian: ignamă — any Dioscorea vine
• Russian: ямс (jams) — any Dioscorea vine
• Spanish: ñame — any Dioscorea vine
• Spanish: ñamera — any Dioscorea vine
• Swahili: nduma — any Dioscorea vine
• Swahili: kiazi kikuu — any Dioscorea vine
• Swedish: jams — any Dioscorea vine
• Tagalog: tugi — any Dioscorea vine
• Tajik: ям (yam) — any Dioscorea vine
• Thai: มัน (man) — any Dioscorea vine
• Thai: สกุลกลอย (sàgun gloi) — any Dioscorea vine
• Turkish: tatlı patates — any Dioscorea vine
• Tyap: a̱cyi — any Dioscorea vine
• Uzbek: shirin kartoshka — any Dioscorea vine
• Vietnamese: khoai — any Dioscorea vine
• Welsh: iam — any Dioscorea vine
• Xârâcùù: ku — any Dioscorea vine
• Yoruba: iṣu — any Dioscorea vine
• Yoruba: iyán — any Dioscorea vine
• Chungli Ao: shi — its edible root
• Big Nambas: pai — its edible root
• Bulgarian: ямс (jams) — its edible root
• Central Dusun: guol — its edible root
• Dutch: yam — its edible root
• Dutch: yamswortel — its edible root
• Dutch: jam — its edible root
• Finnish: jamssi — its edible root
• Hindi: रतालू (ratālū) — its edible root
• Hindi: आलू (ālū) — its edible root
• Hungarian: jamsz — its edible root
• Hungarian: jam — its edible root
• Hungarian: jamszgyökér — its edible root
• Hungarian: jamgyökér — its edible root
• Igbo: ji — its edible root
• Irish: ionam — its edible root
• Lutuv: bie — its edible root
• Malay: keladi — its edible root
• Malayalam: കാച്ചിൽ (kāccil) — its edible root
• Māori: uhi — its edible root
• Māori: uwhi — its edible root
• Māori: ngangarangi — its edible root
• Motu: maho — its edible root
• Navajo: nahooyéí — its edible root
• Plautdietsch: Jams — its edible root
• Polish: jam — its edible root
• Polish: ignam — its edible root
• Portuguese: inhame — its edible root
• Spanish: ñame — its edible root
• Spanish: ame — its edible root
• Spanish: yame — its edible root
• Spanish: ñangate — its edible root
• Swahili: nduma — its edible root
• Thai: มันเสา (man-sǎo) — its edible root
• Thai: ฮ่วยซัว (hûay sua) — its edible root
• Turkish: yam — its edible root
• Vietnamese: sắn dây — its edible root
• Woiwurrung: barrm — its edible root
• Yoruba: iṣu — its edible root