humma

From English red.

humma

1. red

From dialectal Swedish humma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhumːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -umːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): hum‧ma

humma

1. (childish) horse
2. (slang) horsepower

• (horse): heppa, hevonen
• (horsepower): hevosvoima

• “humma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• Rhymes: -ʏmːa

humma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hummaði, supine hummað)

1. to hem, to make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.

• humma fram af sér (“to prevaricate, to avoid making a decision”)

From Ottoman Turkish حمی, حما (humma), from Arabic حُمَّى (ḥummā).

humma (definite accusative hummayı, plural hummalar)

1. typhus
2. fever

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حما”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 517b