hamu

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Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ha‧mu
  • Rhymes: -mu

Noun

hamu (plural hamuk or hamvak)

  1. ash (after fire)
    • ca. 1192–1195, Halotti beszéd és könyörgés‎:
      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

Compound words

Further reading

  • hamu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: 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

Maori

Verb

hamu

  1. glean

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic هَمّ (hamm).

Pronunciation

Noun

hamu (n class, plural hamu)

  1. desire (longing, yearning)

Uneapa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hamu

  1. you (plural)

Further reading

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