hamu

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Compound words

• Hamupipőke
• hamutartó

 

Related terms

• hamv (usually in the plural: hamvak)

 

Further reading

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

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Japanese

Romanization

hamu

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

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Manchu

Romanization

hamu

1. Romanization of ᡥᠠᠮᡠ

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Maori

Verb

hamu

1. glean

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Swahili

Pronunciation

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Noun

hamu (n class, plural hamu)

1. desire (longing, yearning)