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Etymology
From homo + ami + -a.
Pronunciation
Adjective
homama (accusative singular homaman, plural homamaj, accusative plural homamajn)
- humane, kind; humanitarian
- Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Part 1, Chapter 13,
- — Mi estas nekuracebla, — trankvile respondis la gasto, — kaj kiam Stravinskij diras, ke li revenigos min en la vivon, mi ne kredas. Li estas homama kaj volas min konsoli.
- “I am incurable,” said the visitor calmly. “Even though Stravinsky says that he will send me back to normal life, I don’t believe him. He’s a humane man and he only wants to comfort me.” (Michael Glenny translation, Signet, 1967)
- Cecil Bean (translator), La Naiveco de Pastro Brown (The Innocence of Father Brown) by G. K. Chesterton,
- Li estis unu el la grandaj francaj homamaj liberpensantoj, kies sola eraro estas, ke ilia kompato estas eĉ pli severa ol la justeco.
- He was one of the great humanitarian French freethinkers; and the only thing wrong with them is that they make mercy even colder than justice.
- Vladimir Okc (translator), Unuetaĝa Usono (Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America) by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, Chapter 21,
- Kelkaj operacioj kaj kuracado dum jaro kaj duono forprenis tutan ilian ŝparmonon. Finfine tio pli similis rabatakon de banditoj ol homaman medicinan helpon.
- A few operations and treatment over a year and a half deprived them of all their savings. In the end, it was more like highway robbery than humanitarian medical assistance.
- homamo (“love for one's neighbor; charity”)