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hum
English
Etymology
From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
hum (plural hums)
- A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
- An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
- Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
- (Britain, slang) unpleasant odour.
- (dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
- (obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
- you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with
- A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
Translations
See also
The Hum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
hum (third-person singular simple present hums, present participle humming, simple past and past participle hummed)
- (intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- (transitive) To express by humming.
- (intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2
- A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2
- (intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
- (intransitive) To produce low sounds which blend continuously
- (Britain, slang) To reek, smell bad.
- (transitive, Britain, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
Synonyms
- bumble
- bustle
- hustle
- buzz
- croon
- whir
Derived terms
- hummer
- hummingbird
- humming-top
Related terms
- humblebee
Translations
Interjection
hum
- Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
- Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 27:
- Ah, now, this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 27:
Anagrams
- HMU, MUH, muh, uhm
Albanian
Etymology
Unknown. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”).
Noun
hum m (indefinite plural humi, definite singular huma)
- rough sea
Bahnar
Alternative forms
- h?m
Etymology
From Proto-Bahnaric *hu?m ~ ho?m, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *huum ~ *?um. Cognate with Sedang huam, Cua taho?p, Pacoh houm, Puoc ?u?m, Nyah Kur hóom. Probably also related to the forms with initial *s-, such as Khasi sum and Hu ?úm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu?m/
Verb
hum
- to bathe
Dutch
Etymology 1
jocular abbreviation of humeur (cfr.)
Noun
hum n (plural hummen, diminutive hummetje n)
- (good) mood
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeia
Alternative forms
- h'm
Interjection
hum!
- uttering to attract attention, without literal meaning
Jakaltek
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *huu?ng.
Noun
hum
- paper
References
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano?[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 45; 23
Middle English
Pronoun
hum
- Alternative form of hem (“them”)
Ngamo
Noun
hùm
- water
References
- Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:
- […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:
- (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *h?m) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Ngamo hùm [Schuh], […]
Phalura
Etymology
From Pashto [script needed] (hum).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hum/
Particle
hum (discourse, Perso-Arabic spelling ???)
- also, as well as
References
- Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN
Portuguese
Article
hum m (plural huns, feminine huma, feminine plural humas)
- Obsolete spelling of um
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *x?lm?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xû?m/
Noun
h?m m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- hillock
- barrow, tumulus (mound of earth raised over a grave)
Declension
Synonyms
- glàvica, brežúljak
Etymology 2
Unknown origin.
Noun
hum f (Cyrillic spelling ???)
- (obsolete) arrogance
Synonyms
- ?hol?st
References
- “hum” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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bombinate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin bombin?re, present active infinitive of bombin? (“buzz, hum”), variant of Latin bombil?, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (bombuliázein), from ?????? (bómbos, “booming, humming”), of imitatory origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?mb?ne?t/
Verb
bombinate (third-person singular simple present bombinates, present participle bombinating, simple past and past participle bombinated)
- to buzz or hum
Derived terms
- bombination
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