Адам

See also: адам, ядам, and Appendix:Variations of "adam"

Belarusian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈdam]

Proper noun

Ада́м • (Adám) m pers (genitive Ада́ма, nominative plural Ада́мы, genitive plural Ада́маў)

1. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam

Declension

Declension of Ада́м (pr hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ада́м Adám	Ада́мы Adámy
genitive	Ада́ма Adáma	Ада́маў Adámaŭ
dative	Ада́му Adámu	Ада́мам Adámam
accusative	Ада́ма Adáma	Ада́маў Adámaŭ
instrumental	Ада́мам Adámam	Ада́мамі Adámami
locative	Ада́ме Adámje	Ада́мах Adámax
count form	—	Ада́мы1 Adámy1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

Derived terms

• Адамавіч (Adamavič)
• Адамаўна (Adamaŭna)
• Адась (Adasʹ)
• Адаш (Adaš)
• Адзік (Adzik)
• Адук (Aduk)

 

Bulgarian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic Адамъ (Adamŭ). Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

With the stress А́дам (Ádam), it is often borrowed back from English or some other language in which the name is initially stressed.

Pronunciation

• Ада́м: IPA^(key): [ɐˈdam]

• Audio:

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• А́дам: IPA^(key): [ˈadɐm]
• Syllabification^(key): А‧дам
• Hyphenation^(key): Адам

Proper noun

Ада́м • (Adám)

1. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Adam, Latin Ādām, or Ancient Greek Ᾱ̓δᾱ́μ (Ādā́m)

Derived terms

• ада́мов (adámov)
• от дядо Адама (ot djado Adama)
• от Адам и Ева (ot Adam i Eva)

Proper noun

А́дам • (Ádam)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam

References

• “Адам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic	ادام
Cyrillic	Адам
Latin	Adam

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper noun

Адам • (Adam)

1. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈadam]
• Hyphenation: А‧дам

Proper noun

Адам • (Adam) m (relational adjective Адамов)

1. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam

See also

• адам m (adam)

References

• Koneski, Kiril (1999) “Адам”, in Правописен речник на македонскиот литературен јазик (Pravopisen rečnik na makedonskiot literaturen jazik) [Orthographic Dictionary of the Macedonian literary language] (in Macedonian), "Prosvetno delo", page 3

Russian

Alternative forms

• Ада́мъ (Adám) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

Etymology

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adám, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈdam]

Proper noun

Ада́м • (Adám) m anim (genitive Ада́ма, nominative plural Ада́мы, genitive plural Ада́мов)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam
2. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)

Declension

Declension of Ада́м (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	Ада́м Adám	Ада́мы Adámy
genitive	Ада́ма Adáma	Ада́мов Adámov
dative	Ада́му Adámu	Ада́мам Adámam
accusative	Ада́ма Adáma	Ада́мов Adámov
instrumental	Ада́мом Adámom	Ада́мами Adámami
prepositional	Ада́ме Adáme	Ада́мах Adámax

Derived terms

• (Diminutives:) А́да (Áda), А́дя (Ádja)
• (Endearing forms:) Ада́ша (Adáša), Ада́мушка (Adámuška)
• (Patronymics:) Ада́мович (Adámovič)/Ада́мыч (Adámyč), Ада́мовна (Adámovna)/Ада́мна (Adámna)
• (Surnames:) Ада́мов (Adámov)
• (Adjective:) ада́мов (adámov)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎdam/
• Hyphenation: А‧дам

Proper noun

А̀дам m (Latin spelling Àdam)

1. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam

Declension

Declension of Адам

	singular
nominative	Адам
genitive	Адама
dative	Адаму
accusative	Адама
vocative	Адаме
locative	Адамом
instrumental	Адаму

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈdam]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ада́м • (Adám) m pers (genitive Ада́ма, nominative plural Ада́ми, genitive plural Ада́мів)

1. (Abrahamic religions) Adam (the first man and the progenitor of the human race)
2. a male given name, Adam, equivalent to English Adam

Declension

Declension of Ада́м (pers hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ада́м Adám	Ада́ми Adámy
genitive	Ада́ма Adáma	Ада́мів Adámiv
dative	Ада́мові, Ада́му Adámovi, Adámu	Ада́мам Adámam
accusative	Ада́ма Adáma	Ада́мів Adámiv
instrumental	Ада́мом Adámom	Ада́мами Adámamy
locative	Ада́мові, Ада́мі Adámovi, Adámi	Ада́мах Adámax
vocative	Ада́ме Adáme	Ада́ми Adámy

Derived terms

• Ада́менко (Adámenko) (surname)
• Ада́мович (Adámovyč) (patronymic)
• Ада́мівна (Adámivna) (patronymic)

References

• “Адам”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)