"Siam" meaning in English

See Siam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /saɪˈæm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Siam.wav
Rhymes: -æm Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Sciam (“Thailand”), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam, “Siam, historical name”), from Pali suvaṇṇabhūmi (“land of gold”) or Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma, “dark”) or Mon ရာမည (rhmañña, “stranger”), the same root as Shan and probably Assam. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|pt|Sciam|t=Thailand}} Portuguese Sciam (“Thailand”), {{der|en|th|สยาม||Siam, historical name}} Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam, “Siam, historical name”), {{der|en|pi|suvaṇṇabhūmi|t=land of gold}} Pali suvaṇṇabhūmi (“land of gold”), {{der|en|sa|श्याम|t=dark}} Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma, “dark”), {{der|en|mnw|ရာမည|t=stranger|tr=rhmañña}} Mon ရာမည (rhmañña, “stranger”), {{doublet|en|Shan|notext=1}} Shan Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Siam
  1. (historical) Former name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia. Tags: historical Categories (place): Countries in Asia Derived forms: Gulf of Siam, Siam squash, Siam weed, Siamese Translations (the former name of Thailand): سِيَام (siyām) [masculine] (Arabic), সায়াম্ (śaẏam) (Bengali), ဆိုင်အမ် (hcuing-am) (Burmese), Siam [masculine] (Catalan), 暹羅 /暹罗 (alt: cim³ lo⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 暹羅 /暹罗 (Xiānluó) (Chinese Mandarin), (Xiān) (Chinese Mandarin), Siiam (Estonian), Siam (Finnish), Siam [masculine] (French), Siam (Galician), Siam [neuter] (German), 暹羅 /暹罗 (Siàm-lò) (Hakka Chinese), सियाम (siyām) (Hindi), श्याम (śyām) [masculine] (Hindi), स्याम (syām) [masculine] (Hindi), श्यामदेश (śyāmdeś) [masculine] (Hindi), Sziám (Hungarian), Siam [masculine] (Italian), シャム (Shamu) (Japanese), サイアム (Saiamu) (Japanese), 暹羅 (Shamuro) (alt: しゃむろ) [historical] (Japanese), សៀម (siəm) (Khmer), ស្យាម (syaam) (Khmer), 시암 (Siam) (Korean), (Syam) (Korean), ສຍາມ (sa nyām) (Lao), ສະຫຍາມ (sa nyām) (Lao), Siam (Malay), သေံ (Mon), သေမ် (Mon), ဒျောဒျာ (Mon), ᩈ᩠ᨿ᩻ᩣ᩠ᨾ (Northern Thai), ᩈ᩠ᨿᩣ᩠ᨾ (Northern Thai), syāmaraṭṭha [neuter] (Pali), سيٍّي (Pattani Malay), سييٍي (Pattani Malay), ซีแย (Pattani Malay), سیام (siyâm) (Persian), Syjam [masculine] (Polish), Sião [masculine] (Portuguese), Sciam [masculine] (Portuguese), Siam [neuter] (Romanian), Сиа́м (Siám) [masculine] (Russian), Siam [masculine] (Spanish), Siam (Swedish), สยาม (sà-yǎam) (Thai), Siyam (Turkish), سیام (siyām) (Urdu), Xiêm La (alt: 暹羅) (Vietnamese)
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Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-11 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.