Yuma
English
Proper noun
Yuma
- A city, the county seat of Yuma County, in southwestern Arizona, United States.
- A city in Yuma County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
Derived terms
Noun
Yuma (countable and uncountable, plural Yumas)
- The Quechan people and language
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English Yuma, from the 1957 American western film 3:10 to Yuma.[1] Possibly based on an already existing phonetic loan of English united ("yunay")[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʝuma/ [ˈɟ͡ʝu.ma] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /ˈʃuma/ [ˈʃu.ma] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈʒuma/ [ˈʒu.ma] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uma
- Syllabification: Yu‧ma
Proper noun
Yuma f
- (Cuba, slang) United States of America
References
- ^ “Why Cubans Want To Go To "Yuma"”, in CBS News, 11 February 2022 (last accessed)
- ^ Sokol, Brett (8 October 2007), “How 3:10 to Yuma changed the way Cubans speak.”, in Slate Magazine, retrieved 11 February 2022