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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hokkien 薟／莶 (hiam, “spicy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hiam (comparative more hiam, superlative most hiam)
- (Singapore, colloquial, of food) hot and spicy.
2011 Aug, “STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!”, in suituapui.wordpress.com, retrieved 12 August 2016:At best, it was just so-so – nothing like what we would cook for ourselves at home. It was not “hiam” enough probably from the lack of ginger or ginger juice and there was insufficient wine.
Anagrams
Hokkien
For pronunciation and definitions of hiam – see 薟 (“spicy; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 薟). |
Jarai
Adjective
hiam
- beautiful
- good, fine
References
Siu, Lap Minh (2009 December) Developing the First Preliminary Dictionary of North American Jarai, Texas Tech University, page 79
Portuguese
Verb
hiam
- Obsolete spelling of iam.