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yam meaning in Punjabi

ਯਾਮ

[jeəm] ~ [jɛəm]UK/jæm/

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

Punjabi words for yam

ਯਾਮ, ਯੰਮ

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.

Full definition of yam

yam in a sentence

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Questions about yam in Punjabi

What is the meaning of yam in Punjabi?
Yam in Punjabi is ਯਾਮ, ਯੰਮ.
yam ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
Yam: ਯਾਮ, ਯੰਮ.
What does yam mean in English?
Yam means any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

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Punjabi 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 Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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