Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Ugric *kaďma. Cognates include Northern Mansi хӯльм (hūlʹm).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒmu]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧mu
  • Rhymes: -mu

Noun edit

hamu (plural hamuk or hamvak)

  1. ash (after fire)
    • ca. 1192–1195, Halotti beszéd és könyörgés[1]:
      Látjátuk feleim szümtükhel, mik vogymuk: isȧ, por ës homou vogymuk.
      Ye can see, mine own brethren, with your eyes what we are: truly, we are but dust and ash.

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hamu hamuk
accusative hamut hamukat
dative hamunak hamuknak
instrumental hamuval hamukkal
causal-final hamuért hamukért
translative hamuvá hamukká
terminative hamuig hamukig
essive-formal hamuként hamukként
essive-modal
inessive hamuban hamukban
superessive hamun hamukon
adessive hamunál hamuknál
illative hamuba hamukba
sublative hamura hamukra
allative hamuhoz hamukhoz
elative hamuból hamukból
delative hamuról hamukról
ablative hamutól hamuktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
hamué hamuké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
hamuéi hamukéi
Possessive forms of hamu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hamum hamuim
2nd person sing. hamud hamuid
3rd person sing. hamuja hamui
1st person plural hamunk hamuink
2nd person plural hamutok hamuitok
3rd person plural hamujuk hamuik

Derived terms edit

Compound words

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • hamu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

hamu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はむ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ハム

Manchu edit

Romanization edit

hamu

  1. Romanization of ᡥᠠᠮᡠ

Maori edit

Verb edit

hamu

  1. glean

Swahili edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic هَمّ (hamm).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

hamu (n class, plural hamu)

  1. desire (longing, yearning)

Uneapa edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Oceanic *kamu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

hamu

  1. you (plural)

Further reading edit

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)