How to pronounce yam
American English pronunciation
YAM
- IPA
- /ˈjæm/
- Syllables
- YAM (1 syllable)
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What yam means
A sweet orange root that is baked and eaten in fall
In a sentence: We baked a yam and ate it with butter at our fall dinner.
Where it comes from: It likely came into English through Portuguese and Spanish words like inhame and ñame, which come from a word in an African language. English had the spelling yam by 1657.
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