xem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɛm/, /hɛm/, /ksɛm/

Pronoun

xem

1. (nonstandard) Object-case of xe.
   • 1997, Jared Blackburn, in bit.listserv.autism

     Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."

   • 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

     The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.

Anagrams

• MEX, Mex, Mex., mex

Adjective

xem (Raguileo spelling)

1. adult

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Etymology

From Arabic غم.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɛm/

Noun

xem f (Arabic spelling خەم)

1. grief, sorrow, distress, worry, concern

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “xem”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 653

Numeral

xem

1. two

Further reading

• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), page 128 (notes that this form, and xen, is used in both Timote and Cuica)

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 占 (“to observe; to watch”, SV: chiêm).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sɛm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sɛm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [sɛm˧˧]

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Verb

xem • (䀡, 䄡, 占, 袩, 覘, ⿰示占)

1. to see; to look at; to watch; to read
2. to examine; to consider; to evaluate; to read (palm, future, etc.)