adam

From Adam in Adam and Eve as opposed to eve.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.əm/

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• (General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.əm/, [ˈæɾm̩], [ˈæɾəm]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.əm/
• Rhymes: -ædəm
• Homophone: atom (t-flapping)
• Hyphenation: a‧dam

adam (plural adams)

1. (US, humorous) The day or night before an eve; two days or nights before a holiday, most commonly Christmas.

From Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).

• IPA^(key): /ˈadam/ [ˈʔʌdʌm]
• Hyphenation: a‧dam

ádam m

1. human

Declension of ádam
absolutive	ádam
predicative	ádama
subjective	ádam
genitive	ádam
Postpositioned forms l-case ádamal k-case ádamak t-case ádamat h-case ádamah

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdam/ [ʔʌˈdʌm]
• Hyphenation: a‧dam

adám

1. imperative singular of adamé

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 51

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آدم (ādäm), borrowed from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɑm/

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• Hyphenation: a‧dam

adam (definite accusative adamı, plural adamlar)

1. human, person
   • 2012 May 31, AzərTAc‎^[3]:

     Mayın 31-də Bağdadda törədilmiş silsilə terror aktları nəticəsində ilkin məlumata görə, səkkiz adam həlak olmuş, 37 adam yaralanmışdır.

     According to the preliminary information, eight people died and 37 people were injured as a result of a series of terrorist attacks carried out on May 31st in Baghdad.

2. someone, somebody, an important person

   Adam olub, bizi daha saymır.

   [S/he] has become someone, doesn't respect us anymore.

• insan
• nəfər (when counting people)

• adamöldürmə (“homicide”)
• adamaoxşamaz (“ugly”)

adam

1. (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).

   Adama neçə dəfə deyərlər ki, gecikmə?! ― How many times should one be told not to be late?!

   Adama daha heç nə lazım deyil. ― One doesn't need anything else.

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “adam”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[4] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 1, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, pages 44-45

From Arabic آدَم (ʔādam)

adam

1. human, person
2. husband

• “adam”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آدم (ādäm), from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam) ^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈdɑm/
• Hyphenation: a‧dam

adam (definite accusative adamı, plural adamnar)

1. human, person

   Synonyms: kişi, insan

2. man, guy

   Synonyms: erkek, erif

   adam gölmää ― men's shirt

   • 1991 May 10, Todur Zanet, “Gagauzlar çekiler türk soyundan”, in Ana Sözü‎^[5]:

     Mihail ÇAKİR din izmetçisi olarak, pek üürenik bir adammış, din kiyatlarını pek bilärmiş. Çevirmiş onnarı gagauz dilinä. Bundan kaarä türlü sözlüklär, kiyatlar yazmış.

     Mihail Ciachir, as a servant of religion, was a really knowledgeable man, he knew a lot about religious books. He would translate them to Gagauz. Other than that, he wrote various dictionaries and books.

3. husband

   Synonym: koca

• karı
• çocuk

• Ciachir, Mihail (1938), “adam”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 7
• Kopuşçu M. İ., Todorova S. A., Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “adam”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 10
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “адам”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 25
• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “adam”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 10

adam

1. romanization of 𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌼

adam

1. body
2. A piece (of something)

adam

1. bird

Borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם m.

adam m (Hebrew spelling אדם)^[1]

1. man (adult male human)

   Synonym: ombre

   Hypernyms: persona, umano

   • 2004, Los Muestros‎^[6], numbers 56–64, R. Capuia:

     […] una kapa roja y medinas negros, un perro cerka, todo echo magnifica, kada punto perfecto en el suave prado de erba y flores, kuadro por kuadro donde estaba en pie el adam riko.

     A red cape and black cities, nearly a dog, every magnificent work, every perfect point in the smooth meadow of grass and flowers, frame by frame where the rich man stood.

adam

1. Certain properties of a person, often derived from the biblical story

   Den gamle adam (“sinful human nature”, literally “the old adam”)

   Adams drakt or adamsdrakt (“to be naked”, literally “Adam's costume”)

2. Used in sayings and proverbs

   Hvor lenge var Adam i paradis? (“Happiness is often short-lived”, literally “How long was Adam in Paradise?”)

From the name of Adam in the book of Genesis.

adam m (definite singular adamen, indefinite plural adamar, definite plural adamane)

1. (metonymic) man

   Coordinate term: eva

2. (figurative) original sin or human frailty

   Synonym: arvesynd

• “adam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Adam, dama, mada

• IPA^(key): /aˈdam/, [ɑˈd̟ɑm]

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• Rhymes: -am
• Hyphenation: a‧dam

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آدم (adam),^[1] from Old Anatolian Turkish آدم (âdem), borrowed from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).

adam (definite accusative adamı, plural adamlar)

1. human
2. man (adult male human)

• (human): insan
• (man): erkek

• (antonym(s) of “Homo sapiens”): hayvan, uzaylı
• (antonym(s) of “man”): kadın

• beniadem

• “adam”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “adam”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

adam

1. first-person singular possessive of ada