fum

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See also: fúm, fûm, and füm

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʌm/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Verb

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.

Etymology 2

Noun

fum (plural fums)

  1. (mythology, obsolete) A mythological Chinese bird, the fènghuáng.
    • 1823, Richard Sickelmore, The history of Brighton from the earliest period to the present time:
      The fum is a bird said to be found in no part of the world but China. It is described as of most admirable beauty, and if at any time absent, or long unseen, it is regarded as an omen of some misfortune to the royal family.
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See also

etymologically unrelated terms containing "fum"

References

  1. ^ “fum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

  1. smoke

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum m (uncountable)

  1. smoke
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Etymology 2

Verb

fum

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

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fames.

Noun

fum m

  1. hunger

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin fūmus.

Noun

fum m (plural fums)

  1. smoke

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Galician

Verb

fum

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
  2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

Noun

fum oblique singular, m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)

  1. smoke

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

fum m

  1. smoke

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

  1. smoke

Declension

Declension of fum
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) fum fumul (niște) fumuri fumurile
genitive/dative (unui) fum fumului (unor) fumuri fumurilor
vocative fumule fumurilor

Derived terms

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Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fumus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum m (plural fumi)

  1. smoke

See also

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourmi.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum

  1. (obsolete) ant (insect)

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by furmid "ant".

Declension

declension of fum
singular plural
nominative fum fums
genitive fuma fumas
dative fume fumes
accusative fumi fumis
vocative 1 o fum! o fums!
predicative 2 fumu fumus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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