humus

See also Humus

English

Etymology 1

From Latin humus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hyo͞o'məs, IPA: /ˈhjuːməs/, X-SAMPA: /"hju:m@s/
• Rhymes: -uːməs

Noun

humus (uncountable)

Wikipedia

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

group of compounds in soil

• Armenian: հումուս (hy) (humus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腐殖質 (cmn), 腐殖质 (cmn) (fǔzhízhì)

• Esperanto: humo (eo)
• Finnish: humus (fi)
• French: humus (fr) m
• German: Humus (de) m

• Japanese: 腐植土 (ja) (ふしょくど, fushokudo)
• Korean: 부식질 (ko) (busikjil) (腐植土 (ko))
• Malay: humus (ms)
• Maori: paraumu (mi)
• Polish: humus (pl) m
• Russian: гумус (ru) (gúmus) m, перегной (ru) (peregnój) m
• Swedish: humus (sv) c
• Vietnamese: mùn (vi)

See also

• compost
• mulch

Etymology 2

Turkish humus or Arabic hummus

Noun

humus (uncountable)

1. An alternative spelling of hummus.

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Finnish

(index hu)

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Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hu‧mus
• IPA: /ˈʍumus/

Noun

humus

1. humus

Declension

Declension of humus (type vastaus) singular plural nominative humus humukset genitive humuksen humusten humuksien partitive humusta humuksia accusative humus humuksen humukset inessive humuksessa humuksissa elative humuksesta humuksista illative humukseen humuksiin adessive humuksella humuksilla ablative humukselta humuksilta allative humukselle humuksille essive humuksena humuksina translative humukseksi humuksiksi instructive – humuksin abessive humuksetta humuksitta comitative – humuksineen

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm. Cognates include Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa) and Ancient Greek χθών (khthōn). Related to homō (“human being, man”).

Noun

humus (genitive humī); f, second declension

1. ground
2. earth, soil

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	humus	humī
genitive	humī	humōrum
dative	humō	humīs
accusative	humum	humōs
ablative	humō	humīs
vocative	hume	humī

Usage notes

humus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case (humī (singular) and humīs (plural)); other such nouns include domus, rūs, and focus.

Descendants

• French: humus
• Russian: гумус

Derived terms

• humō

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin humus

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈxumus/

Noun

humus m

1. humus

Declension

    declension of humus

	singular only
nominative	humus
genitive	humusu
dative	humusowi
accusative	humus
instrumental	humusem
locative	humusie
vocative	humusie

Synonyms

• próchnica

Derived terms

• humusowy

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /xǔːmus/
• Hyphenation: hu‧mus

Noun

húmus m (Cyrillic spelling ху́мус)

1. humus

Declension

    declension of humus

	singular
nominative	humus
genitive	humusa
dative	humusu
accusative	humus
vocative	humuse
locative	humusu
instrumental	humusom