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Betawi
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦝꦼꦩ꧀ (adhem).
Pronunciation
Adjective
adem
- cold (having a low temperature)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch âdem, from Old Dutch *āthom, from Proto-West Germanic *āþm, from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz.
Noun
adem m (uncountable)
- breath
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
adem
- inflection of ademen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦝꦼꦩ꧀ (adhem, “cold”), from Old Javanese aḍom, aḍĕm.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adêm
- cold
- Synonym: dingin
- cool
- Synonym: sejuk
- patient
- plain
- Synonyms: hambar, tawar
Derived terms
Further reading
Kalasha
Noun
adem
- Adam (the first man)
Coordinate terms
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *āthom, from Proto-West Germanic *āþm, from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz.
Noun
âdem m
- breath
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ãade, from Latin anatem (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂t-.
Pronunciation
Noun
adem m (plural adens)
- mallard (Anas platyrhynchos, a wild species of duck)
- Synonym: pato-real
Descendants
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish عدم, from Arabic عَدَم (ʕadam).
Noun
adem (definite accusative ademi, plural ademler)
- (archaic) nonexistence, nothingness, void
- (archaic) lack, absence
Declension
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عدم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 841
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “adem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عدم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1289
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN