fum

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fum"

Languages (14)

Translingual • English

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Aromanian • Catalan • Dalmatian • Friulian • Galician • Hunsrik • Old French • Piedmontese • Portuguese • Romanian • Venetan • Volapük

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Translingual

Symbol

fum

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fum terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʌm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Verb

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.
   • c. 1604, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Westward Ho:

     Follow me, and fum as you go.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 鳳 / 凤.

Noun

fum (plural fums)

1. (mythology, obsolete) The fenghuang, a mythological Chinese bird.
   • 1823, Richard Sickelmore, The history of Brighton from the earliest period to the present time:

     The fum is a bird said to be found in no part of the world but China. It is described as of most admirable beauty, and if at any time absent, or long unseen, it is regarded as an omen of some misfortune to the royal family.

Alternative forms

• feng, fung, fung-hwang

See also

etymologically unrelated terms containing "fum"

• fee-faw-fum
• fee-fi-fo-fum

Anagrams

• MUF

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fumu

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

1. smoke

Related terms

• afum
• fumedz
• fumig

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfum]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -um

Noun

fum m (uncountable)

1. smoke

Derived terms

• fumall
• fumejar
• fumer
• fumera
• ni amb fum de sabatots

Related terms

• fumar
• fumigar

Etymology 2

Verb

fum

1. inflection of fúmer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fum”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fum”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “fum” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “fum”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fames.

Noun

fum m

1. hunger

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin fūmus.

Noun

fum m (plural fums)

1. smoke

Related terms

• fumadôr
• fumate
• fumatôs
• fumâ
• fumât

Galician

Verb

fum

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• fumm (Altenhofen spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfum/
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: fum
• Homophone: Fumm

Contraction

fum

1. contraction of fun +‎ dem, literally “of the”

References

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “fum”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

Old French

Alternative forms

• fun

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

Noun

fum oblique singular, m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)

1. smoke

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fym/

Noun

fum m

1. smoke

Derived terms

• fumèt

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. See also fungar.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfũ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfũ/

• Hyphenation: fum

Interjection

fum

1. Imitating a heavy, nasal breath.

Noun

fum m (uncountable)

1. heavy breath

Usage notes

• Used only in a few set phrases.

Derived terms

• nem fum, nem fole de ferreiro
• nem fum, nem funeta

Further reading

• “fum”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fum”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “fum”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “fum”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “fum”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Audio:

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Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

1. smoke

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fum	fumul	fumuri	fumurile
genitive-dative	fum	fumului	fumuri	fumurilor
vocative	fumule		fumurilor

Derived terms

• fumuriu
• înfumura

Related terms

• afuma
• fuma
• fumar
• fumega
• fumur

Venetan

Alternative forms

• fun, fumo

Etymology

From Latin fumus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fum/

Noun

fum m (plural fumi)

1. smoke

See also

• fógo, fok

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourmi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fum]

Noun

fum

1. (obsolete) ant (insect)

   Synonym: furmid

Declension

Declension of fum

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fum	fums
Genitive	fuma	fumas
Dative	fume	fumes
Accusative	fumi	fumis
Predicative1	fumu	fumus
Vocative	o fum	o fums

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

• fumakum (“anthill”)
• fumanög (“ant egg”)
• fumöp (“anthill”)