Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

hampa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hampaði, supine hampað)

  1. to dandle
  2. to hold something up for show

Conjugation edit

Malay edit

Adjective edit

hampa

  1. empty
    Synonym: kosong

Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps from French hampe (shaft).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈampa/ [ˈãm.pa]
  • Rhymes: -ampa
  • Syllabification: ham‧pa

Noun edit

hampa f (plural hampas)

  1. underworld (part of society that is engaged in crime or vice)
    • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
      Este tipo se llamaba Misha Semionovich Pavlov y era una especie de mago del hampa moscovita.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes edit

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el hampa, un hampa
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish hampa, hamper, from Old Norse hampr, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz.

Noun edit

hampa c (uncountable)

  1. hemp

Declension edit

Declension of hampa 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hampa hampan
Genitive hampas hampans

Descendants edit

  • Finnish: hamppu

Further reading edit

Zou edit

Noun edit

hampa

  1. grass

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