Yam

Look up yam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Yam or YAM may refer to:

Plants and foods[edit]

• Yam (vegetable), common name for members of Dioscorea
• Taro, known in Malaysia and Singapore as yam
• Sweet potato, specifically its orange-fleshed cultivars, often referred to as yams in North America
• Yam, a salad in Thai cuisine
• Oxalis tuberosa, referred to as yams in New Zealand and Polynesia
• Pachyrhizus erosus, called jícama, Mexican yam bean, or Mexican turnip, a tuberous root
• Konjac, Amorphophallus konjac

Geography[edit]

• Yam, see Tavastians, old Russian and Ukrainian name for Häme, the tribe of western Finns
• Yam fortress, demolished Russian fortress in the modern town of Kingisepp, Russia
• Piyam, known also as Yam, a village in Marand County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Yam, Alexandrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, a village in Vladimir Oblast, Russia
• Yam, North Khorasan, a village in Faruj County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Yam, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Khoshab County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Yam, Tehran, a village in Pishva County, Tehran Province, Iran
• Yam Rural District, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Yam Island (Queensland), an island in the Torres Strait
• Yam-Alin, a mountain range in far North-eastern Russia
• Sault Ste. Marie Airport, from its IATA airport code

Names[edit]

• Ren (surname), spelled Yam or Yum in Cantonese
  • Simon Yam, Hong Kong actor
• Lindile Yam (born 1960), Chief of the South African Army and lieutenant general
• Yam Madar (born 2000), Israeli professional basketball player
• Yam, son of Noah, son of Noah in Islamic tradition, who died by drowning in the flood
• Yam Kaspers Anshel, Israeli woman who took part in Miss Universe

Other uses[edit]

• Yam (god), a Levantine deity not to be confused with Yama, a Hindu God
• Yam (route), a former Russian message delivery service introduced by the Mongol Empire
• YAM (Yet Another Mailer), a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers
• Yellowstone Art Museum
• New Yam Festival of the Igbo
• Yam languages, a family of Papuan languages
• Banu Yam, an Arabian tribe
• Yunarmiya (YAM), or Young Army Cadets National Movement, a Russian military youth organisation

See also[edit]

• Yam yam (disambiguation)
• Yama (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yam.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.