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Yam
proper noun
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A surname.
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proper noun
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A surname.
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 任 (jam4).
Forms
plural
Yams
yale
· A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually…
Yale
· A university in the eastern United States.
yam
· Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and…
Yam
· A surname.
Yamada
· A surname from Japanese.
Yamamoto
· A surname from Japanese, one of the 10 most common in Japan.
Yamato
· Any of several towns in Japan; see Wikipedia.
The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.