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Aymara
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronoun
juma
- thou, you (singular)
See also
Finnish
Pronunciation
Interjection
juma (slang)
- Clipping of jumalauta.
- ui juma ― OMG
Fula
Etymology
From Arabic الْجُمْعَة (al-jumʕa).
Noun
juma o
- (Pular) Friday
- Synonym: mawnde
References
Polish
Etymology
Unclear, but possibly a borrowing from English Yuma, as the result of a loose association between the western film 3:10 to Yuma and a scheduled train leaving the town of Zielona Góra for Berlin on the same hour in the 1990s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈju.ma/
- Rhymes: -uma
- Syllabification: ju‧ma
Noun
juma f
- (colloquial, historical) type of criminal activity popular in the 1990s in the western regions of Poland, involving theft of high value goods in Germany and then trafficking them across the Polish border
1999, Zbigniew Kurcz, Pogranicze z Niemcami a inne pogranicza Polski, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, page 136:Dla części osób możliwość nabycia towarów z „jumy” jest jedyną szansą ich posiadania.- For some people the possibility of acquiring goods by stealing them in Germany is the only chance of owning them.
2000, Andrzej Margasiński, Beata Zajęcka, Psychopatologia i psychoprofilaktyka: przejawy narkomanii, alkoholizmu, przemocy, zaburzeń psychicznych w rodzinie i szkole oraz możliwości im przeciwdziałania: materiały z ogólnopolskiej konferencji naukowej zorganizowanej przez Instytut Pedagogiki Społecznej Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej w Częstochowie, 19-21.10. 1999 r., Impuls, page 176:Bywa, że niektórzy z respondentów (9%) zostali do uprawiania jumy przymuszeni, a to przez starszych kolegów, dla których obecność nieletnich jest gwarancją bezkarności, a to przez własnych rodziców, którzy wraz z dziećmi jeżdżą na jumę.- Some of the respondents (9%) were pressured to deal in shoplifted goods, either by their older colleagues, for whom the presence of minors guarantees impunity, or by their own parents, who go on theft sprees in Germany with their children.
2015, Krzysztof Sado Sadowski, Brudne historie, Lębork, page 108:Dla nas nie była to pierwszyzna, jeździliśmy na jumę od pewnego czasu i już raz zaliczyliśmy wpadkę, lecz wówczas pierwszy raz zabraliśmy ze sobą D.P.- This was not our first rodeo, we had been going on German theft sprees for some time and we had already been busted once, but that was the first time we took D.P. with us.
- (colloquial, by extension) theft (act of stealing property)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- juma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- juma in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Noun
juma f (uncountable)
- Alternative form of jumătate
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxuma/
- Rhymes: -uma
- Syllabification: ju‧ma
Etymology 1
From jumera.
Noun
juma f (plural jumas)
- (colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
juma
- feminine singular of jumo
Etymology 3
Verb
juma
- only used in se juma, third-person singular present indicative of jumarse
- only used in te ... juma, syntactic variant of júmate, second-person singular imperative of jumarse
Further reading
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جُمْعَة (jumʕa).
Pronunciation
Noun
juma (ma class, plural majuma)
- week
Synonyms
Uzbek
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian جُمْعَه (jum'a), from Arabic جُمْعَة (jumʕa).
Noun
juma (plural jumalar)
- Friday
Declension
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