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Bahnar
Pronunciation
Verb
năm
- to go, to come
Jarai
Numeral
năm
- six
Rade
Numeral
năm
- six
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *ɗam, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *p(ɗ)am. Cognate with Muong đằm, đăm, Khmer ប្រាំ (pram), Bahnar pơđăm, Halang bơdăm.
Numeral
năm • (南, 𠄼, 𫡵, 𫧣)
- five
- kế hoạch năm năm ― a five-year plan
Usage notes
- When occurring after mươi in numbers larger than ten, năm shifts to lăm/nhăm.
- năm mươi lăm/nhăm ― fifty-five
See also
Etymology 2
From Proto-Vietic *c-n-əm, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cn₁am ~ *cn₁aam. Cognate with Muong năm, Kha Phong sənam¹, Khmer ឆ្នាំ (chnam), Bahnar hơnăm, sơnăm, Khasi snem and Mon သၞာံ (hnam). It is quite likely that this word was originally an infixed form of a verbal root, represented by Mon စာံ (“to dibble”). Within Vietic, the uninfixed form is found in Thavung cɔm¹ ("year") and Phong cɨm ("year").
Sometimes mistaken as related to Chinese 年 (nián) (SV: niên).
Noun
năm • (南, 𢆥, 𫷜, 年)
- a year
- kế hoạch năm năm ― a five-year plan
- năm nhất ― the first year in college
Derived terms