huma

See also: húmá, humà, humă, and hǔmā

Bakumpai

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq.

Noun

huma

  1. house

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

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

Noun

humâ

  1. threat; menace
    Synonyms: kastor, patakot

Derived terms

French

Etymology 1

Verb

huma

  1. third-person singular past historic of humer

Etymology 2

Clipping of humanité.

Noun

huma f (plural humas)

  1. humanity

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

huma (plural huma-huma)

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

Affixations

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

Compounds

  • huma akuan (private or personal land)

References

  • 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

Further reading

Latin

Verb

humā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of humō

Malay

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /huma/
  • (Johor-Selangor, Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): [humə]
  • Rhymes: -uma

Noun

huma (Jawi spelling هوما, plural huma-huma)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: huma

References

  • 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

Further reading

Maltese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuː.ma/

Pronoun

huma

  1. they (third-person plural subject pronoun)

Inflection

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

Ngaju

Etymology

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

Noun

huma

  1. house

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈhuma/

Verb

huma

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

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish humo.

Noun

huma

  1. smoke

Portuguese

Article

huma

  1. obsolete spelling of uma

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhuma]

Noun

huma f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of humă

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

huma f (plural humas)

  1. (Chile) tamale
    Synonyms: humita, tamal

Etymology 2

Verb

huma

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

Sundanese

Etymology

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

Noun

huma (Sundanese script ᮠᮥᮙ)

  1. unirrigated rice field

References

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /huˈma/ [hʊˈma]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: hu‧ma

Noun

humá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜋ)

  1. response to a surprising or unexpected comment from someone

Derived terms

  • di-makahuma
  • humuma
  • paghuma

See also

Anagrams

Tswana

Verb

huma

  1. to become rich

Uneapa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣuma/

Noun

huma

  1. garden

Further reading