homa
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English
Noun
homa (uncountable)
- Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”).
Chickasaw
Adjective
homa
- Humes' spelling of homma
Choctaw
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Etymology
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Adjective
homa
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
homa (accusative singular homan, plural homaj, accusative plural homajn)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
homa (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative homa/hom)
Old English
Noun
homa m
- alternative form of hama
Pali
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Alternative scripts
Verb
homa
- present/imperative active first-person plural of hoti (“to be”)
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حُمَّى (ḥummā).
Pronunciation
Noun
homa class IX (plural homa class X)
- fever
- Synonym: harara
- (euphemistic) any illness or infection
Derived terms
- homa ya manjano (“jaundice”)
- homa ya matumbo (“typhoid”)
- homa ya nyani (“monkeypox, mpox”)
- homa ya uti wa mgongo (“meningitis”)
References
- ^ 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 81 Nr. 705
Further reading
homa on the Swahili Wikipedia.Wikipedia sw
Zazaki
Noun
homa