yam

Yams.

English

Etymology

From Template:Pg. inhame and Template:Sp. ñame, possibly from the Template:Fula. nyami, (“to eat”). The term was coined in 1657.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

yam (plural yams)

1. The edible, starchy, tuberous root of any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea, usually cultivated in the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
2. Template:italbrac A sweet potato.
3. Template:Scottish Potato.

Translations

edible root of Dioscorea vine

• Catalan: nyam
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:zh-ts (shānyào)

• Danish: yams, jams
• Dutch: yam m, jam (nl) m
• Esperanto: ignamo
• Fijian: uvi
• Finnish: jamssi
• French: igname Template:f
• German: Yamswurzel Template:f, Yams Template:f
• Hausa: aduru
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hawaiian: uhi
• Indonesian:
• Japanese: 山芋(やまいも, yamaimo), 自然薯 (じねんじょ, jinenjo) ヤマノイモ (yamanoimo)
• Korean: 마 (ma)
• Latvian: dioskorėja Template:f
• Maori: uhi, oka, uwhi
• Polish: pochrzyn
• Portuguese: inhame
• Spanish: ñame (es) m

sweet potato

See: sweet potato

potato

See: potato

See also

• sweet potato

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Dutch

Noun

1. Yam.

Synonyms

• jam