kuma

kuma

1. (intransitive) to speak

kuma

1. word, that which is spoken

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

kuma inan

1. A cradle.

• sehaska

kúmá (West), kūmà (East)

1. meat

   kúm dì (West), kūm dī (East) : only the meat (showing regular deletion of the -a when another syllable follows)

• Jean Pierre Caprile: Études phonologiques tchadiennes

From Portuguese como.

kuma

1. that
2. what
3. how

kuma

1. water

• Karen Davis, A grammar of the Hoava language, Western Solomons (2003), page 36

From Old Norse koma (“to come”), from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”).

• (Åre) IPA^(key): [²kʰoˑmuᵝ]
• (Mattmar, Näskott) IPA^(key): [²kʰɔːmɔ]
• (Hackås, Hallen, Håsjö, Häggenås, Hällesjö, Marieby, Revsund, Rätan) IPA^(key): [²kʰuᵝmːa]
• (Rödön) IPA^(key): [²kʰuᵝmːæ]
• (Hammerdal) IPA^(key): [²kʰɔmːa]
• (Berg) IPA^(key): [²kʰɶmːa]
• (Ragunda) IPA^(key): [²kʰuᵝma], [²kʰuᵝmːa]^[1]
• (Fors) IPA^(key): [²kʰʊma]

kuma

1. to come

• Bucht, Torsten. 1924. Äldre u ock o i kort stavelse i mellersta Norrland. pp. 81-82.

kuma

1. Rōmaji transcription of くま

kuma

1. another

   kumarta ― different, distinct, separate

   kumartappendi ― to separate

kuma

1. one

   kuma partirrka ― one hundred

   kuma uwata ― one thousand

   kumiwurru ― one million

   kumanti ― only one, just one

   kumangka ― to be one; together

   kuma kumangka ― one after the other

   kumarluku ― once

   kumarlukunti ― only once

   kumapurtu ― all at once

• Warra Kaurna Yalaka, ed. Rob Amery. November 2017

kuma

1. to arrive

kuma

1. to arrive

kuma

1. germ

kuma

1. ear

• Russell G. Schuh, Maka Wordlist, p. 6

kuma

1. alternative spelling of kouma

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *kum-. Compare Hadiyya kúma, Sidamo kúme and Somali kun.

kuma

1. thousand

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: ku‧ma

From kum + -a.

kuma f (male equivalent kum)

1. female equivalent of kum (“godmother”)
2. (dated, colloquial) neighbor, neighbour
3. (dated, colloquial) friend

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kuma m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of kum

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kuma

1. third-person singular present of kumać

• “kuma”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “kuma”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “kuma”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 37

kuma

1. woman

• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 29

• IPA^(key): /kǔːma/

kúma f (Cyrillic spelling ку́ма)

1. godmother
2. goodwife, gossip

• “kuma”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Cognate with Yao (Africa) likuma (“vagina”).

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kuma class IX (plural kuma class X)

1. vulva
2. (vulgar) vagina, cunt

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:uke

kuma

1. the crowds
2. the Shrine of Taivoan in some Taivoan communities.
3. younger brother

kuma

1. many (people)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قومه (kuma), itself from Proto-Turkic *koma.

kuma (definite accusative kumayı, plural kumalar)

1. a woman who lives with a married man (and the rest of his family), concubine

From Proto-Cariban *kuma; compare Apalaí kuma, Kari'na kuma, Trió 'ma, Wayana kuna, Akawaio ï'ma.

• IPA^(key): [kuma]

kuma

1. (intransitive, of water) to flood, to overflow

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “chuumadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[3], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 227, 387, 393: “chu:madü 'rising water, high water' […] chu:madü - rising river […] kuma:dü - to flood, overflow (lit. rising river)”