yem

A young woman wearing a yem as an outer garment.

Models showing the back (left) and front of a yem.

Borrowed from Vietnamese yếm, from Proto-Vietic *ʔiɛmʔ (“breastplate”), from Old Chinese 裺 (/*qromʔ/, /*qoms/, “bib worn by infants”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈiːəm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈiəm/
• Rhymes: -iːəm

yem (plural yems)

1. (clothing) A Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and a V-shaped bottom worn by women on the torso, originally as an underbodice and now also as an outer garment.

   Hypernyms: bib, bodice, haltertop

   (underbodice): Synonyms: (both in Chinese contexts) dudou, tu-tou

   (outer garment): Synonym: ao yem

See hyem.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /jɛm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛm

yem (not comparable)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of hyem (“home”)

• yếm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

By surface analysis, ye +‎ -m.

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yem (definite accusative yemi, plural yemlər)

1. fodder

• yemləmək

• “yem” in Obastan.com.

yem

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of em (“uncle”)

yem

1. (Northern, northern East Midlands) Alternative form of þem (“them”)

yem

1. Alternative form of yeme (“attention, care”)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یم (yem, “food, ration, bait; primer (for a gun)”),^[1][2][3] from Proto-Turkic *yēm,^[4][5] *yē- (“to eat”).^[6]

• IPA^(key): /ˈjem/
• Hyphenation: yem

yem (definite accusative yemi, plural yemler)

1. feed, fodder

   Synonym: yeygi

2. bait (substance used to allure animals)
3. (figuratively) bait (anything which allures)

• “yem”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yem”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5285