आम

From Sanskrit आम्र (āmrá).

आम (ām) m (Kaithi 𑂄𑂧)

1. mango

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑːm/,

Inherited from Sanskrit आम्र (āmrá).

आम • (ām) m (Urdu spelling آم)

1. mango

• → Pashto: ام (am)
• → Persian:
  • Dari: آم (ām)

Borrowed from Arabic عَامّ (ʕāmm). Compare Bengali আম (am), Punjabi ਆਮ (ām).

आम • (ām) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling عام)

1. common, everyday

   आम आदमी ― ām ādmī ― common man

2. innocent

• आम्म (āmm)

Borrowed from Sanskrit आम (āmá).

आम • (ām) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling آم)

1. raw, uncooked
2. undigested
3. undressed

आम • (āma)

1. thus

• Gujarati: આમ (āma)

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₃mós (“raw, uncooked”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὠμός (ōmós, “raw, crude, uncooked, undressed”), Old Armenian հում (hum, “raw, uncooked”), Old Irish om (“raw, uncooked”), Persian خام (xâm, “crude, raw”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑː.mɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.mɐ/

आम • (āmá) stem

1. raw, uncooked, unbaked, undressed
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.162.10:

     यदूवध्यमुदरस्यापवाति य आमस्य क्रविषो गन्धो अस्ति ।
     सुकृता तच्छमितारः कृण्वन्तूत मेधं शृतपाकं पचन्तु ॥

     yadūvadhyamudarasyāpavāti ya āmasya kraviṣo gandho asti.
     sukṛtā tacchamitāraḥ kṛṇvantūta medhaṃ śṛtapākaṃ pacantu.

     Undigested food steaming from belly, and any remaining odour of raw flesh,
     This let the immolators set in order and dress the sacrifice with perfect cooking.

2. unripe, immature

• Monier Williams (1899) “आम”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 146/1-2.
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen‎ (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 170
• Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University