ahum

See also: aḫum and aḫûm

English

Etymology 1

From a- +‎ hum.

Adjective

ahum (not comparable)

  1. humming
    • 1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102:
      Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.

Etymology 2

Interjection

ahum

  1. Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”).
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