different between humus vs sludge

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hyo?o'm?s, IPA^(key): /?hju?m?s/
• Rhymes: -u?m?s

Noun

humus (usually uncountable, plural humuses)

1. A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms

Translations

See also

• compost
• mulch

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Turkish humus or Arabic ??????? (?ummu?).

Noun

humus (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hummus

Anagrams

• mu shu

Czech

Etymology

From Latin humus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??umus]
• Hyphenation: hu?mus

Noun

humus m inan

1. humus

Declension

Further reading

• humus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• humus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??y.m?s/
• Hyphenation: hu?mus

Noun

humus m (uncountable)

1. humus (soil organic matter)
2. (by extension) compost

Derived terms

• humusrijk

Finnish

(index hu)

Etymology

< Latin humus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?humus/, [?humus?]
• Rhymes: -umus
• Syllabification: hu?mus

Noun

humus

1. humus

Declension

Latin

Alternative forms

• umus
• humum

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *homos, from Proto-Indo-European *d???omós, from *d?é???m (“earth”). Cognates include Sanskrit ??? (k?a), Ancient Greek ???? (khth?n), and Old Church Slavonic ????? (zemlja). Related to hom? (“human being, man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?hu.mus/, [?h?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?u.mus/, [?u?mus]

Noun

humus f (genitive hum?); second declension

1. ground, floor
2. earth, soil

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative.

humus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case (hum?); other such nouns include domus and r?s. Also, irregular ablative singular hum? once used by Varro.

Derived terms

• humilis
• hum?

Descendants

• ? Armenian: ??????? (humus)
• ? Czech: humus
• ? Dutch: humus
• ? English: humus
• ? Finnish: humus
• ? French: humus
  • ? Turkish: humus
• ? Galician: humus
• ? German: Humus
• ? Greek: ?????? (choúmos)
• ? Irish: húmas
• ? Italian: umus
• ? Malay: humus
• ? Polish: humus
• ? Portuguese: húmus, humo
• ? Romanian: humus, hum?
• ? Russian: ?????? (gúmus)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ?????? (húmus)
• ? Spanish: humus
• ? Swedish: humus

References

• humus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• humus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• humus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xu.mus/

Etymology 1

From Latin humus.

Noun

humus m inan

1. humus

   Synonym: próchnica

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) humusowy

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????.

Noun

humus m inan

1. hummus

   Synonym: hummus

Declension

Further reading

• humus in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• humus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French humus, from Latin humus.

Noun

humus n (uncountable)

1. humus (in the soil)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin humus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??mus/
• Hyphenation: hu?mus

Noun

húmus m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. humus

Declension

Spanish

Noun

humus m (plural humus)

1. hummus
2. humus

Turkish

Etymology 1

From French humus.

Noun

humus (definite accusative humusu, plural humuslar)

1. humus

Declension

Etymology 2

From Arabic ??????? (?ummu?).

Noun

humus (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. hummus

References

• humus in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Etymology

Possibly related to slush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

sludge (countable and uncountable, plural sludges)

1. Solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
2. A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
3. A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
4. A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
5. (uncountable, music) sludge metal

Synonyms

• (separated solids): mud, mire, ooze, slush

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sludge (third-person singular simple present sludges, present participle sludging, simple past and past participle sludged)

1. (intransitive, informal) To slump or slouch.
2. (intransitive) To slop or drip slowly.