yam

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /jæm/|/jam/    美 /jæm/|/jæːm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
  2. Home. regional
  3. The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
    — Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
  4. A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas. US
  5. A potato. Scotland
  6. An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa. New-Zealand
  7. Taro. Malaysia,Singapore
  8. An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
动词 v.
  1. Pronunciation spelling of am. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — “Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe,” repeating again and again, very softly, the line at the end of each stanza, “I am not mad, I am not mad.” Except she sang it: “I yam not mad, I yam not mad.”
  2. To eat. UK,slang
    — “If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”
  3. To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly. especially
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.

词形变化

yams plural yams plural yams present,singular,third-person yamming participle,present yammed participle,past yammed past yams present,singular,third-person yamming participle,present yammed participle,past yammed past

词汇关系

衍生词
aerial yam air yam afoo yam betel yam bitter yam cheeky yam Chinese yam common yam cush-cush yam elephant foot yam elephant yam fiveleaf yam Foochow yam fourleaf yam garnet yam greater yam Indian three-leaf yam Indian yam intoxicating yam Japanese mountain yam Japanese yam jewel yam lesser yam Mexican yam mountain yam negro yam New Zealand yam Okinawan yam parsnip yam potato yam pounded yam purple yam seven-lobed yam thorny yam toco for yam tropical yam true yam water yam white yam wild yam winged yam yam bean yamberry yam cake yam daisy yamless yamlike yampee yam stick yellow yam

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
词源 3
Ultimately from Fula nyaamude (“to eat”) or a cognate Fula-Wolof term.
词源 4
Apparently a variation of jam (“dunk”, verb).
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