हम
Bhojpuri[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
हम (ham) (genitive हमार, oblique हमरा)
Garhwali[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
हम (ham)
Hindi[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old Hindi हम (hama), हंम (haṃma), from Sauraseni Apabhramsa अम्हे (amhe), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀫𑁆𑀳𑁂 (amhe), from Ashokan Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit अस्मे (asme) (locative of वयम् (vayam, “we”)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *asmáy, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé. Compare Punjabi ਅਸੀਂ (asī̃), Assamese আমি (ami),Marathi आम्ही (āmhī), Konkani आमि (āmi).
Pronoun[edit]
हम • (ham) m or f (Urdu spelling ہم)
- we: first-person plural personal pronoun, plural of मैं (ma͠i)
- हम बहुत पहले से एक-दूसरे को जानते हैं।
- ham bahut pahle se ek-dūsre ko jānte ha͠i.
- We've known each other for a long time.
- (Varanasi, Awadh, colloquial in Standard Hindi) I: first-person personal singular personal pronoun
- Synonym: मैं (ma͠i)
Usage notes[edit]
Because हम (ham) can mean both "we" and "I", sometimes हम लोग (ham log, “we people”) is used to specifically denote the plural. Usually context makes it clear when हम (ham) is being used for "we" or for "I". It is inflected and used grammatically the same for both meanings.
Most Eastern Hindi dialects only use हम (ham) as "I", and a variant of हम लोग (ham log) for "we".
Declension[edit]
Declension of हम | ||
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direct | हम (ham) | |
indirect | हम (ham) | |
ergative | हमने (hamne) | |
genitive | हमारा (hamārā) | |
dative | हमें (hamẽ) , हमको (hamko) |
Derived terms[edit]
- हमाहमी (hamāhmī)
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Persian هم (ham), from Middle Persian hm (ham), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎶 (hama), from Proto-Iranian *hamHáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *samHás, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós. Doublet of सम (sam), a Sanskrit borrowing.
Adverb[edit]
हम • (ham) (Urdu spelling ہم)
Conjunction[edit]
हम • (ham) (Urdu spelling ہم)
References[edit]
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) , “हम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
- Platts, John T. (1884) , “हम”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & co.
Maithili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Bihari [Term?], from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀳𑀁 (haṃ), from Sanskrit अहम् (aham).
Pronoun[edit]
हम • (ham)
Old Hindi[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- हंम (haṃma)
Etymology[edit]
From Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀫𑁆𑀳𑁂 (amhe), from Sanskrit अस्मे (asme).
Pronoun[edit]
हम (hama)
Descendants[edit]
- Bhojpuri terms derived from Sanskrit
- Bhojpuri lemmas
- Bhojpuri pronouns
- Garhwali lemmas
- Garhwali pronouns
- Hindi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hindi terms inherited from Old Hindi
- Hindi terms derived from Old Hindi
- Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa
- Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Apabhramsa
- Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Hindi terms inherited from Ashokan Prakrit
- Hindi terms derived from Ashokan Prakrit
- Hindi terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit
- Hindi terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Hindi terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Hindi terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Hindi lemmas
- Hindi pronouns
- Hindi terms with usage examples
- Hindi colloquialisms
- Hindi terms borrowed from Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Middle Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Old Persian
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- Hindi doublets
- Hindi adverbs
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- Hindi conjunctions
- Maithili terms inherited from Bihari
- Maithili terms derived from Bihari
- Maithili terms inherited from Magadhi Prakrit
- Maithili terms derived from Magadhi Prakrit
- Maithili terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Maithili terms derived from Sanskrit
- Maithili lemmas
- Maithili pronouns
- Old Hindi terms inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Old Hindi terms derived from Sauraseni Prakrit
- Old Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit
- Old Hindi lemmas
- Old Hindi pronouns