umm
English
[edit]Interjection
[edit]umm
- Alternative form of um
- - How does a plane fly?
- - Umm, I don't know.
Verb
[edit]umm (third-person singular simple present umms, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed)
- Alternative form of um (“to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy”).
Anagrams
[edit]Cypriot Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).
Noun
[edit]umm f (plural ummát)
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (Courland) u'mmi
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *oma.
Adjective
[edit]umm
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