fumar

From Latin fūmāre, present active indicative of fūmō.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈmaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fu‧mar

fumar (first-person singular indicative present fumo, past participle fumáu)

1. to smoke

• fumu
• afumar
• fumiar

• “fumar” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

Inherited from Latin fūmāre, present active indicative of fūmō.

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• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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fumar (first-person singular present fumo, first-person singular preterite fumí, past participle fumat)

1. (ambitransitive) to smoke
2. (pronominal) to become smoked or smoky

• “fumar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “fumar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “fumar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fumar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin fūmāre, present active indicative of fūmō.

• IPA^(key): /fu.ˈmaɾ/

fumar (first-person singular present fumo, first-person singular preterite fumei, past participle fumado)

1. to smoke
   • 1820, anonymous author, Diálogo entre Dominjos è Farruco:

     ¿Con que eses papès que leche non balen nada, exâ podo fumalos ou limpiar ò cu con eles?

     So these papers you read don't worth a thing, and now I can smoke them or clean my ass with them?

• fume

Borrowed from Esperanto fumi, English fume, French fumer, Italian fumare, Spanish fumar.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈmar/

fumar (present fumas, past fumis, future fumos, conditional fumus, imperative fumez)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to smoke

   Mea charioto anciena ankore fumis mem pos la repari.

   My old truck was still smoking, even after the repairs.

   Lu prizas fumar dum la dejuno-tempo.

   He/she likes to smoke during the lunch breaks.

Conjugation of fumar

		present		past		future
infinitive		fumar		fumir		fumor
tense		fumas		fumis		fumos
conditional		fumus		—		—
imperative		fumez		—		—
adjective active participle		fumanta		fuminta		fumonta
adverbial active participle		fumante		fuminte		fumonte
nominal active participle	singular	fumanto		fuminto		fumonto
	plural	fumanti		fuminti		fumonti
adjective passive participle		fumata		fumita		fumota
adverbial passive participle		fumate		fumite		fumote
nominal passive participle	singular	fumato		fumito		fumoto
	plural	fumati		fumiti		fumoti

fumar

1. present of fuma

From Latin fūmāre.

• (Portugal, natural speech) IPA^(key):
• (Azores) IPA^(key): , ,

fumar (first-person singular present fumo, first-person singular preterite fumei, past participle fumado)

1. (intransitive, transitive) to smoke, to deliberately inhale smoke
2. (transitive) to smoke (to preserve or prepare food for by treating with smoke)

   Synonym: defumar

• fumo

• “fumar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From fum +‎ -ar, or from Latin fumārium, from fūmus (“smoke”).

• IPA^(key): /fuˈmar/

fumar n (plural fumare)

1. chimney

   Synonyms: coș, cămin, horn, hogeag

• fum

From Italian fumaiolo.

• IPA^(key): /fǔmaːr/
• Hyphenation: fu‧mar

fùmār m (Cyrillic spelling фу̀ма̄р)

1. (regional) chimney

   Synonym: dȋmnjāk

• “fumar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Probably borrowed from French fumer, from Latin fūmāre, present active indicative of fūmō. Doublet of humar, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈmaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fu‧mar

fumar (first-person singular present fumo, first-person singular preterite fumé, past participle fumado)

1. (intransitive) to smoke (to give off smoke)

   Synonym: humear

2. (intransitive) to smoke (to inhale and exhale tobacco smoke)

   Dejar de fumar beneficia la salud.

   Stopping smoking benefits one's health.

3. (transitive) to smoke (to inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.)

• “fumar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10