Adem

See also: adem, ADEM, Âdem, and Adém

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic አደም (ʾädäm).

Proper noun

Adem (plural Adems)

1. A surname from Amharic.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Adem is the 33894^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 671 individuals. Adem is most common among Black/African American (83.9%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Adem”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

Anagrams

• ADME, Dame, Edam, MEDA, Mead, dame, made, mead

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آدم (adem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdem/
• Rhymes: -em

Proper noun

Adem m (definite Ademi)

1. (religion, Islam) Adam
2. a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Adam

Declension

Declension of Adem

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	Adem	Ademi
accusative		Ademin
dat./abl.	Ademi	Ademit

Derived terms

• Ademaj
• Ademi

 

References

• Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 7b

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آدم (Âdem), from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).

Proper noun

Adem m (Cyrillic spelling Адем)

1. (Islam) Adam
2. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Adem

	singular
nominative	Adem
genitive	Adema
dative	Ademu
accusative	Adema
vocative	Ademe
locative	Ademom
instrumental	Ademu

See also

• Àdam

Further reading

• “Adem”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish آدم (Âdem), from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).

Proper noun

Âdem

1. a male given name from Arabic, Adam