fum

fum

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fum.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fum terms

• IPA^(key): /fʌm/

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.^[1]
   • c. 1604, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Westward Ho:

     Follow me, and fum as you go.

fum (plural fums)

1. (mythology, obsolete) A mythological Chinese bird, the fènghuáng.
   • 1823, Richard Sickelmore, The history of Brighton from the earliest period to the present time:

     The fum is a bird said to be found in no part of the world but China. It is described as of most admirable beauty, and if at any time absent, or long unseen, it is regarded as an omen of some misfortune to the royal family.

• feng, fung, fung-hwang

• MUF

• fumu

From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.

fum n (plural fumuri)

1. smoke

• afum
• fumedz
• fumig

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfum]

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• Rhymes: -um

fum m (uncountable)

1. smoke

• fumar
• fumigar

• “fum”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fum”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “fum” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fum” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

fum

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

From Latin fames.

fum m

1. hunger

From Latin fūmus.

fum m (plural fums)

1. smoke

• fumâ
• fumadôr
• fumât
• fumatôs
• fumate

fum

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

• fumm (Altenhofen spelling)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfum/
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: fum
• Homophone: Fumm

fum

1. contraction of fun dem (“of the”)

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “fum”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

• fun

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

fum oblique singular, m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)

1. smoke

• IPA^(key): /fym/

fum m

1. smoke

• fumèt

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

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fum n (plural fumuri)

1. smoke

• fumuriu
• înfumura

• afuma
• fuma
• fumar
• fumega
• fumur

• fun, fumo

From Latin fumus.

• IPA^(key): /fum/

fum m (plural fumi)

1. smoke

• fógo, fok (fire).

Borrowed from French fourmi.

• IPA^(key): [fum]

fum

1. (obsolete) ant (insect)

This older term has been replaced by furmid "ant".

• fumanög (“ant egg”)
• fumakum (“anthill”)
• fumöp (“anthill”)