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yamen

[ yah-muhn ]

noun

  1. (in the Chinese Empire) the residence or office of a public official.


yamen

/ ˈjɑːmɛn /

noun

  1. (in imperial China) the office or residence of a public official
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of yamen1

1820–30; < Chinese yámen ( office + mén gate)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of yamen1

C19: from Chinese, from ya general's office + měn gate
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Example Sentences

Tying the day together, the Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster that morning was a 27-year-old Muslim violinist from Nazareth, Yamen Saadi, who who got his start at age 10 in the Divan.

Yamen Madi, 10, looks on as his mother, Noor Madi, holds his brother inside the pediatric unit for Gazan patients at Sidra Medicine, a hospital in Doha.

His seven-year-old brother, Yamen, was hit with shrapnel in the eye and is already in Abu Dhabi.

From BBC

"I lived through all the wars and incursions in the past, but I have never witnessed anything worse than this war," said Yamen Hamad, 35, a father-of-four, whose home had been destroyed by Israeli strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.

From Reuters

"People feared the bombardment of the border area was a tactic to create scorched earth before tanks advance," said Yamen Hamad, a father of four who fled with his family and others from Beit Hanoun near Gaza's north border, where blast craters have made roads impassable and buildings nearby have been turned into rubble.

From Reuters

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