hum

Etymology
From ; akin to 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, probably ultimately of origin.

Noun

 * 1) A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
 * 2) An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
 * 3) Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
 * 4)  Unpleasant odour.
 * 5)  An imposition or hoax; humbug.
 * 6)  A kind of strong drink.
 * 7)  A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
 * 1)  A kind of strong drink.
 * 2)  A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
 * 1)  A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.

Translations

 * Arabic: همهمَة
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: hyminä, hyrinä
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: המהום
 * Korean:
 * Maori: momi
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: pjevušenje
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hyminä, hurina, surina, hyrinä, ,
 * Hebrew:, המהום
 * Italian:
 * Maori: tāwara (of indistinct conversation), rangorango, rarā, tāwara , hāmumumumu, ngī
 * Ottoman Turkish: زر, طنطنه
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: бръмчене
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Maori: tāwara

Verb

 * 1)  To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
 * 2)  To express by humming.
 * 3)  To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.
 * 4)  To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
 * 5)  To produce low sounds which blend continuously
 * 6)  To reek, smell bad.
 * 7)  To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
 * 1)  To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
 * 2)  To produce low sounds which blend continuously
 * 3)  To reek, smell bad.
 * 4)  To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
 * 1)  To reek, smell bad.
 * 2)  To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.
 * 1)  To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.

Translations

 * Arabic: همهم
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: broukat si
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: hymistä, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τερετίζω
 * Greenlandic: niperujoorpoq
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: raula
 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Malay: rinai,
 * Maori: tamumu, tamūtamū
 * Nepali: गुनगुनाउनु
 * Norman: monmer
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Maori: momi, hamumu


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, (depending on the species' precise sound)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Ingrian: pörissä
 * Italian:
 * Maori: wheo, wheowheo, tamumu, tamūtamū, ngī
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Maori: mapu


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: hymistellä

Pronunciation

 * Tone: M

Predicate

 * 1) An identity for a "nom-int-txt" code: a wilde wish.
 * hum - a life cycle

Etymology
. Maybe from.

Noun

 * 1) rough sea

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 tahoːp, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 ʔuːm, 🇨🇬 hóom. Probably also related to the forms with initial *s-, such as 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 θúm.

Verb

 * 1) to bathe

Etymology 1
jocular abbreviation of humeur (cfr.)

Noun

 * 1) (good) mood

Interjection

 * 1) uttering to attract attention, without literal meaning

Etymology
Expressive ; possible descent in ancient Latin or Frankish interjections.

Interjection

 * 1)  um..., hm

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
From.

Particle

 * 1) also, as well as

Usage notes
In Brazil, this spelling is still seen in finance-related slips such as lottery tickets, cheques and receipts, in order to prevent fraud.

Interjection

 * 1) hmm

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) hillock
 * 2) barrow, tumulus mound of earth raised over a grave

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  arrogance