pumpa

See also: Pumpa

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pumpe. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpumpa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -umpa

Noun

pumpa f (diminutive pumpička)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

   Synonym: čerpadlo

2. gas station

Declension

Declension of pumpa (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	pumpa	pumpy
genitive	pumpy	pump
dative	pumpě	pumpám
accusative	pumpu	pumpy
vocative	pumpo	pumpy
locative	pumpě	pumpách
instrumental	pumpou	pumpami

Related terms

• pumpař
• pumpovat

Further reading

• “pumpa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pumpa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pumpa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pumpe, from Middle Dutch pompe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpumpɒ]
• Hyphenation: pum‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

Noun

pumpa (plural pumpák)

1. (proscribed) pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

   Synonym: szivattyú

2. air pump

   Synonyms: (slightly formal) légszivattyú, légpumpa

3. plunger (a device used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction)

   Synonym: vécépumpa

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	pumpa	pumpák
accusative	pumpát	pumpákat
dative	pumpának	pumpáknak
instrumental	pumpával	pumpákkal
causal-final	pumpáért	pumpákért
translative	pumpává	pumpákká
terminative	pumpáig	pumpákig
essive-formal	pumpaként	pumpákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pumpában	pumpákban
superessive	pumpán	pumpákon
adessive	pumpánál	pumpáknál
illative	pumpába	pumpákba
sublative	pumpára	pumpákra
allative	pumpához	pumpákhoz
elative	pumpából	pumpákból
delative	pumpáról	pumpákról
ablative	pumpától	pumpáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	pumpáé	pumpáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	pumpáéi	pumpákéi

Possessive forms of pumpa

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pumpám	pumpáim
2nd person sing.	pumpád	pumpáid
3rd person sing.	pumpája	pumpái
1st person plural	pumpánk	pumpáink
2nd person plural	pumpátok	pumpáitok
3rd person plural	pumpájuk	pumpáik

Derived terms

• pumpál
• pumpás

Compound words

• kerékpárpumpa
• légpumpa

Further reading

• pumpa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Irish

Etymology

From English pump.

Noun

pumpa m (genitive singular pumpa, nominative plural pumpaí)

1. pump

Declension

Declension of pumpa (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative pumpa pumpaí vocative a phumpa a phumpaí genitive pumpa pumpaí dative pumpa pumpaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an pumpa na pumpaí genitive an phumpa na bpumpaí dative leis an bpumpa don phumpa leis na pumpaí

Derived terms

• pumpa breosla (“fuel pump”)
• pumpa cíche (“breast pump”)
• pumpa goile (“stomach pump”)
• pumpa insteallta (“injector pump”)
• pumpa láimhe (“handpump”)
• pumpa peitril (“gas pump”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of pumpa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pumpa	phumpa	bpumpa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pumpa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “pumpa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Latvian

Noun

pumpa f (4th declension)

1. zit (colloquial word for pimple)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pumpen (noun)
• pumpet (verb)

Noun

pumpa m sg or f sg

1. definite feminine singular of pumpe

Verb

pumpa

1. simple past of pumpe
2. past participle of pumpe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pumpa f sg

1. definite singular of pumpe

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pȗmpa f (Cyrillic spelling пу̑мпа)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

Declension

Declension of pumpa

	singular	plural
nominative	pumpa	pumpe
genitive	pumpe	pumpa
dative	pumpi	pumpama
accusative	pumpu	pumpe
vocative	pumpo	pumpe
locative	pumpi	pumpama
instrumental	pumpom	pumpama

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pumpe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pumpa/, [ˈpumpa]
• Rhymes: -umpa
• Hyphenation: pum‧pa

Noun

pumpa f (diminutive pumpička)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

   Synonym: čerpadlo

2. gas station

Declension

Declension of pumpa
(pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	pumpa	pumpy
genitive	pumpy	púmp
dative	pumpe	pumpám
accusative	pumpu	pumpy
locative	pumpe	pumpách
instrumental	pumpou	pumpami

Related terms

• pumpovať

Further reading

• “pumpa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

pumpa c

1. a pumpkin

Declension

Declension of pumpa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pumpa	pumpas
	definite	pumpan	pumpans
plural	indefinite	pumpor	pumpors
	definite	pumporna	pumpornas

Verb

pumpa (present pumpar, preterite pumpade, supine pumpat, imperative pumpa)

1. to pump

Conjugation

Conjugation of pumpa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	pumpa		pumpas
supine	pumpat		pumpats
imperative	pumpa		—
imper. plural1	pumpen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	pumpar	pumpade	pumpas	pumpades
ind. plural1	pumpa	pumpade	pumpas	pumpades
subjunctive2	pumpe	pumpade	pumpes	pumpades
present participle		pumpande
past participle		pumpad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• magpumpa

Related terms

• pump
• pumpning

References

• “pumpa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “pumpa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “pumpa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)