cuma

From Arabic جُمْعَة (jumʕa).

cuma

1. Friday

From Latin commāter.

cuma

1. godmother

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

cuma f (feminine plural cumas, masculine cum, masculine plural cuns)

1. reintegrationist spelling of cunha

• tjoema (1901–1947)
• tjuma (1947–1972)

From Malay cuma, from Tamil சும்மா (cummā, “lazily, idly, leisurely; just for fun, without any reason, just because”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuma/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ma]
• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: cu‧ma

cuma

1. only, merely

   Synonyms: hanya, saja

2. (colloquial) but

   Synonym: tapi

• “cuma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Russian чума (čuma).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumɑ/, [ˈt͡ʃumɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumɑ/, [ˈt͡ʃumɑ]
• Rhymes: -umɑ
• Hyphenation: cu‧ma

cuma

1. plague (disease)
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 90:

     Miljonija väkkiä kooli ruikon, halerin, cuman epidemian aikaan.

     Millions of people died during the time of the epidemic of pox, cholera, the plague.

Declension of cuma (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	cuma	cumat
genitive	cuman	cummiin
partitive	cummaa	cummia
illative	cummaa	cummii
inessive	cumas	cumis
elative	cumast	cumist
allative	cumalle	cumille
adessive	cumal	cumil
ablative	cumalt	cumilt
translative	cumaks	cumiks
essive	cumanna, cummaan	cuminna, cummiin
exessive1)	cumant	cumint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

From Old Irish cummae,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *kombeyom.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈkumˠə/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɞmˠə/, /ˈkomˠə/, /ˈkumˠə/^[3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmˠə/^[4]

cuma f (genitive singular cuma, nominative plural cumaí)

1. shape, form; appearance, look, effect

cuma

1. equal, the same; unimportant [with copula]

• ar nós cuma/chuma liom (“indifferent”)
• is cuma (“it doesn't matter”)
  • is cuma liom (“it is all the same to me; I don't care”)
  • is cuma duit (“it doesn’t matter to you; it is none of your business”)
• nach cuma? (“so what?”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuma”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cuma”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cuma”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

cuma

1. father

• cuuma

Borrowed from Swahili chuma.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /(t)ɕùːmà(ꜜ)/

This u is pronounced long.^[1]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[2]

cuma class 9 (plural macuma) or cuma class 9/10 (plural cuma)

1. iron, steel^[1]

(Nouns)

• gĩcuma class 7

• kĩgera

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃumə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuma/
• Rhymes: -umə, -mə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

From Tamil சும்மா (cummā).

cuma (Jawi spelling چوما)

1. only, merely

• hanya / هاڽ

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cuma (Jawi spelling چوما)

1. vain, useless

• percuma

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “چوم tjoema”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, pages 2, 7
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “چوم choma”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 273
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “chuma”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 240

• “cuma” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Germanic *kumô, equivalent to cuman +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.mɑ/

cuma m

1. guest
   • c. 973, Æthelwold, translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict

     Fēower and fīftiġ. Be cumena andfenġe.

     54. On the receiving of guests.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"

     Wē sind eall cuman on þissum līfe, and ūre eard nis nā hēr, ac wē sind hēr swelċe weġfērende menn. Ān cymþ, ōðer færeþ. Sē biþ ācenned, sē ōðer forþfæreþ and rȳmþ him setl.

     We are all guests in this life, and our home is not here, but we're here as wayfaring people. One person comes, another goes. One is born, another dies and makes them room.

2. stranger
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 25:35

     Iċ wæs cuma and ġē mē inn laðodon.

     I was a stranger and you invited me in.

Weak:

Borrowed from Middle High German zoum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡su.ma/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: cu‧ma

cuma f

1. (nautical) hawser (mooring rope)

• cuma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cuma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: cu‧ma

cuma f sg

1. (Portugal, informal) contraction of com uma (“with a (feminine)”): feminine of cum

   Tou cuma fome!

   I'm so hungry!

   (literally, “I'm with a hunger!”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuma/ [ˈku.ma]
• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: cu‧ma

cuma m (plural cumas)

1. (slang, Chile) rascal, common, vulgar person

   Synonyms: flaite, chulo, ordinario, rasca, punga

• “cuma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Malay cuma, from Tamil சும்மா (cummā).

cuma

1. only, merely

• duga

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جُمْعَه (cüma, “Friday”), from Classical Persian جُمْعَه (jum'a, “Friday”), from Arabic الْجُمْعَةُ f (al-jumʕatu, “Friday”).

Compare also Azerbaijani cümə, Uzbek juma, Kazakh жұма (jūma), etc.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒu.mɑː/, [d͡ʒu.mɑ̈ː]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cu‧ma

cuma (definite accusative cumayı, plural cumalar)

1. Friday

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