kuma

kuma

1. (intransitive) to speak

kuma

1. word, that which is spoken

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

kuma inan

1. A cradle.

• sehaska

kúmá (West), kūmà (East)

1. meat

   kúm dì (West), kūm dī (East) : only the meat (showing regular deletion of the -a when another syllable follows)

• Jean Pierre Caprile: Études phonologiques tchadiennes

From Portuguese como.

kuma

1. that
2. what
3. how

kuma

1. water

• Karen Davis, A grammar of the Hoava language, Western Solomons (2003), page 36

From Old Norse koma (“to come”), from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”).

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kuma

1. to come

• Bucht, Torsten. 1924. Äldre u ock o i kort stavelse i mellersta Norrland. pp. 81-82.
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kuma

1. Rōmaji transcription of くま

kuma

1. another

   kumarta ― different, distinct, separate

   kumartappendi ― to separate

kuma

1. one

   kuma partirrka ― one hundred

   kuma uwata ― one thousand

   kumiwurru ― one million

   kumanti ― only one, just one

   kumangka ― to be one; together

   kuma kumangka ― one after the other

   kumarluku ― once

   kumarlukunti ― only once

   kumapurtu ― all at once

• Warra Kaurna Yalaka, ed. Rob Amery. November 2017

kuma

1. to arrive

kuma

1. germ

kuma

1. ear

• Russell G. Schuh, Maka Wordlist, p. 6

kuma

1. Alternative spelling of kouma

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *kum-. Compare Hadiyya kúma, Sidamo kúme and Somali kun.

kuma

1. thousand

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ma/

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: ku‧ma

From kum +‎ -a.

kuma f (male equivalent kum)

1. female equivalent of kum (“godmother”)
2. (colloquial) neighbor, neighbour
3. (colloquial) friend

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kuma m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of kum

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kuma

1. third-person singular present of kumać

• kuma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kuma in Polish dictionaries at PWN

kuma

1. woman

• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 29

kuma f (Cyrillic spelling кума)

1. godmother
2. goodwife, gossip

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kuma (n class, plural kuma)

1. vulva
2. (vulgar) vagina, cunt

kuma

1. the crowds
2. the Shrine of Taivoan in some Taivoan communities.
3. younger brother

kuma

1. many (people)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قومه (kuma), itself from Proto-Turkic *koma.

kuma (definite accusative kumayı, plural kumalar)

1. a woman who lives with a married man (and the rest of his family), concubine

From Proto-Cariban *kuma; compare Apalaí kuma, Kari'na kuma, Trió 'ma, Wayana kuna, Akawaio ï'ma.

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1. (intransitive, of water) to flood, to overflow

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “chuumadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 227, 387, 393: “chu:madü 'rising water, high water' […] chu:madü - rising river […] kuma:dü - to flood, overflow (lit. rising river)”