aman.

Brit.

/ˈɑːmə/, U.S.

/ˈɑmə/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese ama.

Etymology: < Japanese ama diver for shellfish, etc., male or (in some regions especially) female (759 or earlier; 1603 in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam), specific use of ama fisherman or fisherwoman (712 or earlier), perhaps (with an unattested original sense ‘net-maker’) < a nominalized participial form of the verb amu to make by weaving, braiding, plaiting, knitting, etc. ( > ami net).Compare the following early reference in English to female divers in Japan, although this passage does not mention the Japanese word:1613 J. Saris in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. i. 370 All alongst this coast, and so vp to Ozaca, we found women diuers, that..would catch fish by diuing, which by net and lines they missed.

A Japanese woman who dives for shellfish and edible seaweed, typically without breathing apparatus.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > divers or dredgers > [noun] > diver > Japanese woman

ama1875

1875 C. Pfoundes Fu-so Mimi Bukuro 179 Tan-kai-ko..went to the fishing village of Shido-no-ura, in Sanuki, in the Island of Sikoku, and there fell in with an ama (a female-diver) who became his concubine.

1918 Comm. Rep. (U.S. Bureau Foreign & Domestic Commerce) 28 Feb. 778 In the shallower waters the mollusks are plucked from the rocks by Japanese women divers, called ‘ama’.

1954 F. Haar Mermaid of Japan 2 Every living ama is the daughter of an ama, their mothers were daughters of ama, as were their mothers' mothers.

1992 C. Sprawson Haunts of Black Masseur (1993) viii. 284 For 2,000 years the Ama, the highly revered women of the sea, have dived for shellfish and edible seaweed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

AMA n. American Medical Association.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > American Medical Association

AMA1849

1849 N.Y. Jrnl. Med. 2 122 Alfred Stille, Henry J. Bowditch, Sec's of A.M.A.

1878 St. Louis Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 35 44 We propose..to present this plan to the next meeting of the A.M.A.

1911 Sunset Sept. 284/1 Now and then the ducks left their pond and waddled pompously across the lawn, as if to let the A.M.A. know that the ‘quacks’ had a right to membership, too.

1959 New Statesman 13 June 833/3 One cannot help wondering whether obstruction by the AMA has played any part in preventing Eckstein's book from being published earlier.

2004 Science 3 Dec. 1649 The AMA had urged the institutional review boards (IRBs) that review trial protocols to require such registration before approval of a drug.

单词	ama
释义	aman. Brit. /ˈɑːmə/, U.S. /ˈɑmə/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese ama. Etymology: < Japanese ama diver for shellfish, etc., male or (in some regions especially) female (759 or earlier; 1603 in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam), specific use of ama fisherman or fisherwoman (712 or earlier), perhaps (with an unattested original sense ‘net-maker’) < a nominalized participial form of the verb amu to make by weaving, braiding, plaiting, knitting, etc. ( > ami net).Compare the following early reference in English to female divers in Japan, although this passage does not mention the Japanese word:1613 J. Saris in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. i. 370 All alongst this coast, and so vp to Ozaca, we found women diuers, that..would catch fish by diuing, which by net and lines they missed. A Japanese woman who dives for shellfish and edible seaweed, typically without breathing apparatus. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > divers or dredgers > [noun] > diver > Japanese woman ama1875 1875 C. Pfoundes Fu-so Mimi Bukuro 179 Tan-kai-ko..went to the fishing village of Shido-no-ura, in Sanuki, in the Island of Sikoku, and there fell in with an ama (a female-diver) who became his concubine. 1918 Comm. Rep. (U.S. Bureau Foreign & Domestic Commerce) 28 Feb. 778 In the shallower waters the mollusks are plucked from the rocks by Japanese women divers, called ‘ama’. 1954 F. Haar Mermaid of Japan 2 Every living ama is the daughter of an ama, their mothers were daughters of ama, as were their mothers' mothers. 1992 C. Sprawson Haunts of Black Masseur (1993) viii. 284 For 2,000 years the Ama, the highly revered women of the sea, have dived for shellfish and edible seaweed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas AMA AMA n. American Medical Association. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > American Medical Association AMA1849 1849 N.Y. Jrnl. Med. 2 122 Alfred Stille, Henry J. Bowditch, Sec's of A.M.A. 1878 St. Louis Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 35 44 We propose..to present this plan to the next meeting of the A.M.A. 1911 Sunset Sept. 284/1 Now and then the ducks left their pond and waddled pompously across the lawn, as if to let the A.M.A. know that the ‘quacks’ had a right to membership, too. 1959 New Statesman 13 June 833/3 One cannot help wondering whether obstruction by the AMA has played any part in preventing Eckstein's book from being published earlier. 2004 Science 3 Dec. 1649 The AMA had urged the institutional review boards (IRBs) that review trial protocols to require such registration before approval of a drug. extracted from An. < n.1875 as lemmas
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