umm
Translingual
Etymology
Clipping of English Umon with m as a placeholder.
Symbol
umm
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Umon terms
English
Interjection
umm
- Alternative form of um.
- - How does a plane fly?
- - Umm, I don't know.
Verb
umm (third-person singular simple present umms, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed)
- Alternative form of um (“to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy”).
Anagrams
Cypriot Arabic
Etymology
Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).
Noun
umm f (plural ummát)
References
- Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 144
Livonian
Alternative forms
- u'mmi (Courland)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *oma.
Adjective
umm