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adarme

Spanish, noun/aˈdaɾme/

adarme is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “adarme, Spanish dram (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.8 g)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Parte, dosis o cantidad mínima o insignificante”.

What does adarme mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineadarme, Spanish dram (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 1.8 g)

  2. 2

    masculineadarme, peso (a former Spanish coin and unit of currency notionally equivalent to an adarme of gold)

  3. 3

    masculinebit, ounce (any insignificantly small weight or amount of anything)

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Antigua unidad de peso castellana, equivalente a la dieciseisava parte de una onza (1,79 gramos). Estaba dividida en tres tomines. Se usó como medida del impuesto en oro que se debía pagar en colonias americanas. 2. Parte, dosis o cantidad mínima o insignificante.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of adarme

  • adarmes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce adarme?

  • /aˈdaɾme/
  • [aˈð̞aɾ.me]
  • [aˈð̞aɾme]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is adarme in Spanish?

adarme appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).