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See also: núm, num., Num., núm., n'um, nu'm, and ǂnûm

English

Noun

num (plural nums)

  1. Abbreviation of number.
  2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Interjection

num

  1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.

Alternative forms

Related terms

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnum/,
  • Hyphenation: num

Noun

núm m 

  1. man, male
  2. person, human being
  3. mankind, humanity

Pronoun

núm

  1. someone

Declension

Declension of núm
absolutive núm
predicative númu
subjective núm
genitive numtín
Postpositioned forms
l-case númul
k-case númuk
t-case númut
h-case númuh

Derived terms

See also

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

num (not comparable)

  1. now (only in the phrase etiam num)
  2. (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation
    Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.
    Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.
  3. (in an indirect question) whether

Derived terms

See also

References

  • “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nummi. Cognates include Finnish nummi.

Noun

num

  1. heather

Old French

Noun

num oblique singular, m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

  1. Alternative form of nom

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ũ
  • Hyphenation: num

Etymology 1

Contraction

num (feminine numa, masculine plural nuns, feminine plural numas)

  1. Contraction of em um (“in a (masculine)”).
Usage notes

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

Etymology 2

Adverb

num (not comparable)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of não.
    • 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
      Eu num estou doido […] !
      I'm not crazy !
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

References

  1. ^ http://portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/3517/sobre-a-informalidade-de-num-numa-versus-em-um-em-uma-no-brasil

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

Noun

num m (plural nums)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

Sumerian

Romanization

num

  1. Romanization of 𒉏 (num)
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