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

Word History and Origins

Origin of yamen¹

1820–30; < Chinese yámen ( yá office + mén gate)

Word History and Origins

Origin of yamen¹

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

Example Sentences

Standing near the fire-blackened husk of an Israeli-hit tank, Yamen Zughayer, a Druze faction commander, looked down a road leading out of Sweida.

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"It's really sad," says 20-year-old student Yamen Alchoum, who is in the area to eat at a nearby food truck.

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Outside the hair salon in Uppsala, 20-year-old Yamen says he has never been involved in gang crime but knows plenty of others who have.

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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.

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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.

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