आम

From Sanskrit आम्र (āmrá).

आम (ām) m (Kaithi 𑂄𑂧)

1. mango

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /ɑːm/, [ä̃ːm]

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 [the horse's] 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 [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (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