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yam meaning in Kannada

ಯಾಮ್

[jeəm] ~ [jɛəm]UK/jæm/

yam in Kannada: ಯಾಮ್. In English, yam means any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Kannada words for yam

ಯಾಮ್

English meaning of yam

  1. noun Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
  2. noun The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
  3. noun A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
  4. noun A potato.

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Questions about yam in Kannada

What is the meaning of yam in Kannada?
Yam in Kannada is ಯಾಮ್.
yam ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥ ಏನು?
Yam: ಯಾಮ್.
What does yam mean in English?
Yam means any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Source and license

Kannada words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “yam”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: yam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Kannada words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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