num

See also: Appendix:Variations of "num"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Niuafo'ou with m as a placeholder.

Symbol

num

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Niuafo'ou.

See also

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Inflection of nim.

Verb

num

  1. past participle of nim

Etymology 2

Shortening of number.

Noun

num (plural nums)

  1. Abbreviation of number.
  2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Likely onomatopoeic.

Interjection

num

  1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
    • 2011 July 22, Brooks Barnes, “Vampires Meet Auteurs at Fan Fest”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 June 2021:
      Speaking from a microphone in the audience, a woman in her 20s said she was impressed with the trailer because it shows off Mr. Pattinson’s back muscles. “I think I can speak for all of us when I say num, num, num,” she said to screams. (Mr. Pattinson looked mortified.)
Alternative forms

Anagrams

Afar

Etymology

Cognate with Saho numa (“woman”), Somali nin (“man”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnum/ [ˈnʊm]
  • Hyphenation: num

Noun

núm m (plural mára m or marí f)

  1. man, male
    • 2006, “Ruut 1:2 [Ruth 1:2]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎[3]:
      Too waqdi Alimelek deqsita num, lab-xayloh nammay kee barra gabat hayya heeh, Yuudâ-baaxok Beetlacam deqsitta magaalak Mooyab deqsita marih baaxo fan dulah gexe.
      So a man called Elimelek, he went together with two sons and a wife, he migrated from a town called Betlehem in Judea to the country of the nation called Moab.
  2. person, human being
  3. mankind, humanity

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)‎[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnum/ [ˈnũm]
  • Rhymes: -um

Adverb

num

  1. (Galician-Asturian) alternative form of nun

Judeo-Tat

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma
Old Persian 𐎴𐎠𐎶 (n-a-m)
Middle Persian ŠM
Classical Persian نَام (nām)
Judeo-Tat num

    Inherited from Classical Persian نَام (nām), from Middle Persian ŠM, from Old Persian 𐎴𐎠𐎶 (n-a-m), from Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /num/

    Noun

    num (Cyrillic spelling нум)

    1. name
    2. title

    References

    • Нафталиев, М. Н. (2015), “num”, in Е. М. Назарова, editor, Еврейско (джуури)-русский словарь [Juhuri–Russian Dictionary]‎[5], Moscow: СТМЭГИ, page 361

    Kamkata-viri

    Alternative forms

    • nom (Western, Northeastern, Southeastern)

    Etymology

    From Proto-Nuristani *nāma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

    Noun

    num m (Western (Ktivi))[1]

    1. name

    References

    1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “n′um”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]

    Latin

    Etymology

      Derived from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

      Pronunciation

      Adverb

      num (not comparable)

      1. (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation, such as: Is it? It isn’t, is it?
        Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.
        Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.
        • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 16.56:
          Num igitur hōrum senectūs miserābilis fuit, quī sē agrī cultiōne oblectābant?
          Was the old age of these men then miserable — men who found such delight in the tilling of their land? [On the contrary, these distinguished elders enjoyed life on their country estates.]
        • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.369–370:
          “Num flētū ingemuit nostrō? Num lūmina flexit?
          Num lacrimās victus dedit, aut miserātus amantem est?”
          “Was he troubled by our tears? Did he [even] turn his eyes [to notice]? Has he been taken [by love and] shed tears, or pitied the one who loved him?”
          (The anaphora of the three “nums” marks an ascending tricolon or tricolon crescens. Dido refers to herself using the “majestic plural” or “royal we”: nostro; and Dido uses third person singular verbs to question the actions of Aeneas who is standing before her.)
      2. (in an indirect question) whether
      3. now (only in the phrase etiam num)

      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[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
        • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum

      Livonian

      Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈnum/, [ˈnumː]

      Noun

      num

      1. heather
      2. pine forest

      Declension

      Declension of num (99)
      singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
      nominative (nominatīv) num nūmõd
      genitive (genitīv) num nūmõd
      partitive (partitīv) nummõ nūmidi
      dative (datīv) nummõn nūmõdõn
      instrumental (instrumentāl) nummõks nūmõdõks
      illative (illatīv) nummõ nūmiž
      inessive (inesīv) numsõ nūmis
      elative (elatīv) numstõ nūmist

      References

      • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “num”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[7] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

      Old French

      Noun

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

      1. alternative form of nom

      Polish

      Etymology

      Coined by science fiction and fantasy writer Jacek Dukaj in 2004, in his book titled Perfect Imperfection.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈnum/
      • Rhymes: -um
      • Syllabification: num

      Pronoun

      num

      1. instrumental/locative singular of onu

      Portuguese

      Alternative forms

      • n'um (pre-standardization spelling)
      • nũ (obsolete)

      Pronunciation

      • Audio (Portugal (Porto)):(file)
      • Rhymes: -ũ
      • Hyphenation: num

      Etymology 1

      Contraction

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

      1. contraction of em +‎ um, literally “in a (masculine)”
      Usage notes
      • The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.[1]
      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

      Further reading

      Romansh

      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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