humid

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ūmeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Latin -idus

Latin ūmidus

Latin hūmidusder.

Old French humideder.

English humid

Borrowed from Old French humide, from Latin humidus (“moist”). Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”) related to English weaky.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːmɪd/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -uːmɪd

Adjective

humid (comparative humider or more humid, superlative humidest or most humid)

Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.
Synonyms: damp, moist; see also Thesaurus:wet

humid earth
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  Evening cloud, or humid bow.
- 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VIII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 132–133:
  Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.

Derived terms

Related terms

humidity

Translations

slightly wet

Albanian: i lagësht (sq)
Arabic: رَطْب (raṭb), رَطِب (raṭib)
Armenian: խոնավ (hy) (xonav)
Azerbaijani: rütubətli, nəm (az), nəmli
Basque: heze
Belarusian: вільго́тны (be) (vilʹhótny)
Bengali: আর্দ্র (bn) (ardro)
Bulgarian: вла́жен (bg) (vlážen)
Burmese: စိုထိုင်း (my) (cuihtuing:)
Catalan: humit (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 濕 / 湿 (zh) (shī), 濕潤 / 湿润 (zh) (shīrùn)
Czech: vlhký (cs)
Danish: fugtig (da)
Dutch: vochtig (nl)
Esperanto: humida
Estonian: niiske
Finnish: kostea (fi), humidi
French: mouillé (fr), humide (fr)
Frisian:
West Frisian: fochtich, damp
Friulian: umid
Galician: húmido (gl)
Georgian: ნესტიანი (nesṭiani), ნოტიო (noṭio), ტენიანი (ṭeniani)
German: feucht (de)
Greek: υγρός (el) (ygrós), νοτερός (el) (noterós)
Haitian Creole: imid
Hebrew: לַח (he) (lakh)
Hindi: नम (hi) (nam), गीला (hi) (gīlā), आर्द्र (hi) (ārdra), तर (hi) (tar), आबी (hi) (ābī)
Hungarian: nyirkos (hu)
Iban: embap
Icelandic: rakur (is)
Ido: humida (io)
Indonesian: lembap (id)
Irish: taisíoch
Italian: umido (it)
Japanese: 湿気の多い (しっけのおおい, shikke no ōi), 蒸し暑い (ja) (むしあつい, mushiatsui), 湿っぽい (ja) (しめっぽい, shimeppoi), 湿った (ja) (しめった, shimetta)
Kazakh: дымқыл (dymqyl), сулы (suly), ылғал (ylğal)
Khmer: សើម (km) (saəm)
Korean: 습기가 많다 (seupgiga manta), 축축하다 (ko) (chukchukhada)
Kyrgyz: нымдуу (ky) (nımduu), жаан-чачындуу (jaan-cacınduu)
Lao: ຊຸ່ມ (sum), ຈື້ນ (chư̄n), ປຽກ (pīak)
Latgalian: volgons
Latin: ūvidus
Latvian: mitrs, mikls, valgs, valgans
Lithuanian: drėgnas
Macedonian: влажен (vlažen)
Malay: lembap (ms)
Māori: haitutu
Mongolian: чийглэг (mn) (čiigleg)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fuktig
Persian: مرطوب (fa) (martub), تر (fa) (tar)
Piedmontese: ùmid
Plautdietsch: feicht
Polish: wilgotny (pl)
Portuguese: úmido (pt), húmido (pt)
Romanian: umed (ro)
Russian: вла́жный (ru) (vlážnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вла̏жан

Latin: vlȁžan (sh)
Slovak: vlhký
Slovene: vlažen (sl)
Spanish: húmedo (es)
Swedish: fuktig (sv)
Tajik: мартуб (martub), тар (tg) (tar)
Tày: ấm
Thai: ชื้น (th) (chʉ́ʉn), เปียก (th) (bpìiak)
Turkish: nemli (tr), rutubetli (tr)
Turkmen: dymyk, yzgarly
Ukrainian: воло́гий (volóhyj)
Urdu: نم (nam), گیلا (gīlā), تر (ur) (tar)
Uzbek: nam (uz), hoʻl (uz), zax (uz)
Vietnamese: ẩm (vi)
Welsh: llaith (cy)
Yiddish: פֿײַכט (faykht)