yam

See also: Yam, yàm, yâm, yaṃ, yɑm, y am, and þ.á.m

English

Yams.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /jæm/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, possibly from the Fula nyami (“to eat”). The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.

Noun

yam (plural yams)

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
(US) A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
(Scotland) Potato.
(New Zealand) A oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
(Malaysia, Singapore) Taro.

Usage notes

Careful use distinguishes yams (genus Dioscorea) from sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas), while casual American use conflates these.

Derived terms

Translations

any Dioscorea vine

Arabic: يَام‎‎ m (yām)
Armenian: դիոսկոր (dioskor)
Assamese: কাঠ আলু (kath alu)
Bole: doya
Burmese: ပီလောပီနံ (my) (pilau:pinam)
Catalan: nyam m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山藥 (zh) 山药 (zh) (shānyào)
Czech: jam (cs) m
Danish: yams c
Dutch: yam (nl) m, yamplant, yamswortel (nl) m, jam (nl) m
Esperanto: ignamo
Fijian: uvi
Finnish: jamssi (fi)
French: igname (fr) f
Georgian: იამსი (iamsi)
German: Yamswurzel (de) f, Yams (de) f
Haitian Creole: yanm
Hausa: aduru, doya (ha)
Hawaiian: uhi
Hindi: रतालू (hi) m (ratālū), आलू (hi) m (ālū)
Ido: inyamo (io)
Indonesian: ubi (id)
Italian: igname
Japanese: 山芋 (やまいも, yamaimo), 自然薯 (じねんじょ, jinenjo), ヤマノイモ (yamanoimo)
Karekare: dauya
Kazakh: тәтті картоп (tätti kartop)
Korean: 마 (ko) (ma)

Kurdish: [Arabic needed] (sevetalka hîndî), [Arabic needed] (binerdiya hîndî)
Lao: ເຜີ່ມ (phœ̄m)
Latvian: dioskorėja f
Lithuanian: dioskorėjos
Luhya: enduma
Malagasy: oviala (mg)
Malay: ubi
Maori: uhi, uwhi
Mongolian: йам (jam)
Motu: maho
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jams m

Nynorsk: jams m
Polish: pochrzyn m
Portuguese: inhame (pt) m
Romanian: ignamă (ro) f
Russian: ямс (ru) m (jams)
Spanish: ñame (es) m
Swahili: nduma (sw)
Swedish: jams (sv)
Tagalog: tugi
Tajik: ям (yam)
Thai: มัน (th) (man), สกุลกลอย (sàgun gloi)
Turkish: tatlı patates (tr)
Uzbek: shirin kartoshka
Vietnamese: khoai lang (vi)
Welsh: iam m
Yoruba: iṣu, iyán

its edible root

Central Dusun: guol
Dutch: yam (nl) m, yamswortel (nl) m, jam (nl) m
Irish: ionam m
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Malay: keladi (ms)
Maori: uhi, uwhi, uwhi

Motu: maho
Navajo: nahooyéí
Swahili: nduma (sw)
Thai: มันเสา (man-sǎo), ฮ่วยซัว (hûay sua)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

sweet potato — see sweet potato

potato — see potato

taro — see taro

Etymology 2

Noun

yam (plural yams)

(regional, Cumberland) home

Anagrams

Amy, MYA, May, Mya, may, mya

Aleut

Noun

yam

(Eastern) yesterday

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Buwal

Noun

yam

water

References

Mélanie Viljoen, Michael Viljoen, Pascal Konai, François Mbouvai, Ernest Koyang, Benjamin Deli, Précis d’orthographe pour la langue buwal - Édition préliminaire (2009, Yaoundé, SIL Cameroun)

Cuvok

Noun

yam

water

References

ASJP
Olga Stolbova, Chadic Lexical Database, issue II (2007): yam "water"

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jɑm/
Audio (file)

Noun

yam m (plural yams or yammen, diminutive yammetje n)

yam, a tropical vine
its edible root

Synonyms

Merey

Noun

yam

water

References

Richard Gravina (compiler); Alan Boydell, Elie Doumok (facilitators), Merey lexicon (2003, SIL)

Middle English

Pronoun

yam

Alternative form of þem

References

“theim (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 June 2018.

Mofu-Gudur

Noun

yam

water

References

Topics in Mofu-Gudur (SIL)

North Giziga

Noun

yam

water

References

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

South Giziga

Noun

yam

water

References

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English yam.

Noun

yam

yam

Yimchungru Naga

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-j(i/u)m.

Noun

yam

house

Zulgo-Gemzek

Noun

yam

water

References

An Outline Sketch of Gemzek Grammar
An Overview of Gemzek Narrative Discourse Features

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