gum

Etymology 1
From, from , from , (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence Icelandic )), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from. More at yawn.

Noun

 * 1)  The flesh around the teeth.

Synonyms

 * (medical)

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, , gingivë
 * Arabic: لِثَة, لَثَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: لثة
 * Gulf Arabic: لثة
 * Hijazi Arabic: لثة
 * Moroccan Arabic: لتة
 * Aragonese: cheniva, geniva
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: dzindzie, dzindzii
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: diş əti
 * Basque:
 * Bau Bidayuh: dode
 * Belarusian: дзясна́
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: lagos
 * Central Dusun: monsis
 * Central Melanau: nyip, dadan
 * Chavacano: encia
 * Chichewa: nkhama
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: kig dens
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, gumme
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gingivo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: tannhald, tannhold, tannkjøt
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: zenzie
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სასა, ღრძილი
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Billere
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: οὖλον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: lasi
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tannhold
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: ien
 * Interlingua: gingiva
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᒃᑭᖅ
 * Irish: drandal, carball
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Javanese: ꦒꦸꦱꦶ
 * Kazakh: қызыл иек, тістің ет
 * Khmer: ជើងធ្មេញ
 * Kimaragang: ngonsis
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پووک
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: ເຫງືອກ, ຟັນ
 * Latgalian: muzlys
 * Latin: gingīva
 * Latvian: smaganas
 * Lithuanian: dantenos
 * Lombard: zenziva
 * Lotud: monsis
 * Lü: ᦵᦄᦲᧅ
 * Luxembourgish: Zännfleesch
 * Macedonian: десни
 * Malay:
 * Manchu: ᡠᠮᠠᠨ
 * Mansaka: goos
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: awótsíín
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: denchive
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tannkjøtt
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: دیش اتی
 * Persian:, , آروک, زیه,
 * Polish:, dziąsła
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: schunschiva
 * Rungus: ngonsis
 * Russian:
 * Sabah Bisaya: sinsilon
 * Sardinian: ghinghía, benzía, sénsia
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: де̑сни
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:, , zinzìa
 * Slovak: ďasno
 * Slovene: dlésen
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: źěsna
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Southern Altai: тиш эт
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagal Murut: sinsilon
 * Tagalog: gilagid
 * Tai Dam:
 * Tai Nüa:
 * Tajik: вора, милки дандон
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Timugon Murut: sinsilon
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: diş eti
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: zinzìva, zenzìva, xenxìva
 * Vietnamese: nướu,
 * Volapük:
 * Waray-Waray: lagos
 * Welsh: deintgig, gorcharfan
 * West Coast Bajau: isi impon
 * West Frisian: toskfleis
 * White Hmong:
 * Zhuang:

Verb

 * 1) To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
 * 2)  To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

Etymology 2
From, , borrowed from , from , from , , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of various viscous or sticky substances that are exuded by certain plants.
 * 2)  Any viscous or sticky substance resembling those that are exuded by certain plants.
 * 3)  Chewing gum.
 * 4)  A single piece of chewing gum.
 * 5)  A gummi candy.
 * 6)  A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
 * 7)  A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
 * 8)  A rubber overshoe.
 * 9) A gum tree.
 * 1)  A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
 * 2)  A rubber overshoe.
 * 3) A gum tree.

Translations

 * Arabic: صَمْغ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: gummi
 * Estonian: vaik, kummi
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κόμμι, γλοιός
 * Irish: guma
 * Khmer: ជ័រឈើ
 * Maori: pia
 * Old English: teoru, trēowteoru
 * Ottoman Turkish: ساقز, رچینه, راتینج
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kalamak
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, ґлей
 * Welsh: gwm


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: syntetgummi
 * French:
 * Irish: guma
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: gwm


 * Arabic: عِلْكَة
 * Hijazi Arabic: لُبَانة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Estonian: näts
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: žuvačka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: หมากฝรั่ง
 * Ukrainian: жуйка, гумка


 * Ido: (3)
 * Spanish: (1,2),  (3)

Verb

 * 1)  To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
 * 2) To stiffen with glue or gum.
 * 3)  To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
 * 4)  To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
 * That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
 * The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.
 * 1)  To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
 * That cheap oil will gum up the engine valves.
 * The new editor can gum up your article with too many commas.

Etymology
A relatively recent variant of.

Noun

 * 1) An eraser.

Ideophone

 * 1) smelling bad

Etymology
From

Noun

 * 1) boasting, exaggeration

Etymology
From. Compare to 🇨🇬, etc.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2

 * perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

 * 1) mist, vapour, haze

Conjunction

 * 1) that
 * Tha mi cinnteach gum biodh e toilichte. - I'm certain that he would be happy.

Usage notes

 * Used before b, f, m and p.

Etymology
. Cognates with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) sand

Noun

 * 1)  cheek