umm

See also: UMM

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Umon with m as a placeholder.

Symbol

umm

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Umon.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Umon terms

English

Interjection

umm

  1. Alternative form of um.
    - How does a plane fly?
    - Umm, I don't know.

Verb

umm (third-person singular simple present umms, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed)

  1. Alternative form of um (“to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy”).

Anagrams

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔim-
Proto-Semitic *ʔimm-
Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm)
Cypriot Arabic umm

    Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).

    Noun

    umm f (plural ummát)

    1. mother

    References

    • Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 144

    Livonian

    Adjective

    umm

    1. obsolete spelling of u’mmi

    References

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