hamu

hamu

See also: Hamu

Eastern Cham

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Chamic *huma, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma, from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (swidden).

Noun

hamu

  1. field, especially rice field

Hungarian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Ugric *kaďma. Cognates include Northern Mansi хӯльм (hūlʹm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒmu]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ha‧mu
  • Rhymes: -mu

Noun

hamu (plural hamuk or hamvak)

  1. ash (after fire)
    • ca. 1192–1195, Halotti beszéd és könyörgés[1], archived from the original on 31 December 2018:
      Látjátuk feleim szümtükhel, mik vogymuk: isȧ, por ës homou vogymuk.
      Ye can see, mine own brethren, with your eyes what we are: truly, we are but dust and ash.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hamu hamuk
accusative hamut hamukat
dative hamunak hamuknak
instrumental hamuval hamukkal
causal-final hamuért hamukért
translative hamuvá hamukká
terminative hamuig hamukig
essive-formal hamuként hamukként
essive-modal
inessive hamuban hamukban
superessive hamun hamukon
adessive hamunál hamuknál
illative hamuba hamukba
sublative hamura hamukra
allative hamuhoz hamukhoz
elative hamuból hamukból
delative hamuról hamukról
ablative hamutól hamuktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
hamué hamuké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
hamuéi hamukéi
Possessive forms of hamu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hamum hamuim
2nd person sing. hamud hamuid
3rd person sing. hamuja hamui
1st person plural hamunk hamuink
2nd person plural hamutok hamuitok
3rd person plural hamujuk hamuik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • hamu in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Japanese

Romanization

hamu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はむ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ハム

Manchu

Romanization

hamu

  1. romanization of ᡥᠠᠮᡠ

Māori

Verb

hamu

  1. glean

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَمّ (hamm).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

hamu class IX (plural hamu class X)

  1. desire (longing, yearning)

References

  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 298 Nr. 2851

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin hamu
Cyrillic хаму
Arabic هامو

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kamug, perhaps ultimately from an Iranian source, in which case it is a doublet of the synonymous hemme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑ.mu/

Determiner

hamu

  1. (archaic) all, every
    Synonyms: hemme, ähli, bary, barça
    • 18th century, Makhdumquli Firaghi, “Bir-birine bezenip [Showing off to one another]”, in Magtymguly Pyragynyň Diwany [The Diwan of Makhdumquli Firaghi]‎[2], volume 1, pages 70–71, lines 17–20:
      هامو کیمسه کورار حسابلی دمی
      تقدیر اجلینک تاپلمز امی
      مختوم‌قلی قالمز اکسیکی کمی
      هر کیم باره بیلسه ایمان قزانیب
      Hamu kimse görer hasaply demi,
      Takdyr ajalynyň tapylmaz emi.
      Magtymguly, galmaz egsigi-kemi,
      Her kim bara bilse iman gazanyp.
      Every person will have to see that last breath of reckoning,
      There is no way of escaping the death ordered by the Lord.
      Magtymguly, there will be no shortcomings at all,
      If a man confronts his death having embraced his belief.

Further reading

  • “hamu”, in Pyragynyň Sygyrlary: Sözlük we Düşündiriş[3] (in Turkmen), 2014

Uneapa

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Oceanic *kamu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣamu/

Pronoun

hamu

  1. you (plural)

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Western Cham

Alternative forms

  • حامو

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Chamic *huma, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma, from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (swidden).

Noun

hamu

  1. wet field