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huma

See also: húmá, humà, humă, and hǔmā

Bakumpai

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq.

Noun

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huma

  1. house

Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: hu‧ma
  • IPA(key): /huˈmaʔ/ [huˈmaʔ]

Noun

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humâ

  1. threat; menace
    Synonyms: kastor, patakot

Derived terms

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French

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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huma

  1. third-person singular past historic of humer

Etymology 2

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Clipping of humanité.

Noun

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huma f (plural humas)

  1. humanity

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay huma, from Proto-Malayic *huma(ʔ) (“farmland”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma (“farm”), from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (“swidden”).

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Noun

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huma (plural huma-huma)

  1. unirrigated, dry or hill rice field
  2. newly cleared land
  3. (dialectal, in general) rice field
    Synonym: sawah

Affixations

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  • berhuma (“having such land; to farm or work on such land”)
  • perhuma (“to change or make into such land”)
  • perhumaan

Compounds

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References

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  • Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎[1], Canberra: The Australian National University
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qumah”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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Latin

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Verb

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humā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of humō

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *huma(ʔ) (“farmland”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma, from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (“swidden”).

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (huma).

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Noun

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huma (Jawi spelling هوما, plural huma-huma)

  1. dry or hill rice field
  2. newly cleared land

Derived terms

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Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

  • perhumaan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
  • berhuma [stative / habitual] (beR-)
  • memperhumai [causative agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (mempeR- + -i)

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

Descendants

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  • Indonesian: huma

References

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  • Adelaar, K. A. (1992) Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎[2], Canberra: The Australian National University
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qumah”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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Maltese

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Etymology

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From Arabic هُمْ (hum). Compare Moroccan Arabic هوما (hūma), Egyptian Arabic هما (humma).

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Pronoun

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huma

  1. they (third-person plural subject pronoun)

Inflection

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Inflected forms of huma
positive huma
negative mhumiex
possessive pronoun tagħhom
basic suffix -hom
direct object suffix -hom
indirect object suffix -lhom

Ngaju

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq, from Proto-Austronesian *ʀumaq.

Noun

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huma

  1. house

Northern Sami

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Pronunciation

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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈhuma/

Verb

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huma

  1. inflection of hupmat:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Papiamentu

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Etymology

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From Spanish humo.

Noun

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huma

  1. smoke

Portuguese

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Article

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huma

  1. Obsolete spelling of uma.

Romanian

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Noun

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huma f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of humă

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈuma/ [ˈu.ma]
  • Rhymes: -uma
  • Syllabification: hu‧ma

Etymology 1

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Noun

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huma f (plural humas)

  1. (Chile) tamale
    Synonyms: humita, tamal

Etymology 2

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Verb

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huma

  1. inflection of humar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Sundanese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma (“farmland”), from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (“swidden”).

Noun

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huma (Sundanese script ᮠᮥᮙ)

  1. unirrigated rice field

References

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  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qumah”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Tagalog

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Noun

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humá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜋ)

  1. response to a surprising or unexpected comment from someone

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See also

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Anagrams

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Tswana

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Verb

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huma

  1. to become rich

Uneapa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *quma (“clearing, swidden”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma, from Proto-Austronesian *qumah.

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Noun

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huma

  1. garden

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