Ngizim

Noun

âm

1. water

References

• Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3: m- (2007, ISBN 9789004164123), page 201:

  […] 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 9042908262), page 38
• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatitical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 音 (“sound”)

Noun

âm

1. sound
2. (linguistics, phonetics, colloquial) phone, short for âm tố or ngữ âm
3. (linguistics, phonology, colloquial) phoneme, short for âm tố or âm vị
4. (linguistics, colloquial) syllable, short for âm tiết

Derived terms

• âm luật
• âm nhạc (music)
• âm thanh (sound)
• âm tiết (syllable)
• âm tố ‎(“phoneme”)
• âm tố ‎(“phone”)
• âm vị ‎(“phoneme”)
• hoà âm (to mix sounds)
• mẫu âm ‎(“vowel”)
• nguyên âm ‎(“vowel”)
• ngữ âm ‎(“phone”)
• phát âm ‎(“to pronounce”)
• phụ âm ‎(“consonant”)
• tam âm la (a set of three small tuned gongs)
• tử âm ‎(“consonant”)

Synonyms

• âm thanh

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰 (“yin”)

Noun

âm

1. yin

Adjective

âm

1. related to yin
2. related to the feminine, of feminine characteristics
3. related to or associated with the underworld, ****

Derived terms

• âm dương (yin-yang)
• âm đạo (****)
• âm mưu
• âm phủ (****)
• âm thịnh dương suy
• âm vật (clitoris)
• cõi âm (world of the dead)