umm
English edit
Interjection edit
umm
- Alternative form of um
- - How does a plane fly?
- - Umm, I don't know.
Verb edit
umm (third-person singular simple present umms, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed)
- Alternative form of um (“to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy”).
Anagrams edit
Cypriot Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).
Noun edit
umm f (plural ummát)
References edit
- Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 144
Livonian edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Courland) u'mmi
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *oma.
Adjective edit
umm