Yam

Yam or YAM may refer to:

Plants/ foods

• 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
• Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, known commonly as elephant foot yam.

Geography

• 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

• 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 Wolczak (born 2003), Israeli judoka

Other uses

• 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

• Yam yam (disambiguation)
• Yama (disambiguation)