English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French humide , from Latin humidus , umidus ( “ moist ” ) . Via Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- ( “ wet ” ) related to English weaky .
Pronunciation
Adjective
humid (comparative humider , superlative humidest )
Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp ; moist ; somewhat wet or watery .
Synonyms: damp , moist
humid earth
1667 - John Milton , Paradise Lost (1667)
Evening cloud, or humid bow.
Derived terms
Translations
slightly wet
Albanian: i lagësht (sq)
Arabic: رَطْب ( raṭb ) , رَطِب ( raṭib )
Armenian: խոնավ (hy) ( xonav )
Azerbaijani: rütubətli , nəm (az) , nəmli
Belarusian: вільго́тны ( vilʹhótny )
Bengali: আর্দ্র ( ardrô )
Bulgarian: вла́жен (bg) ( vlážen )
Burmese: စိုထိုင်း (my) ( cuihtuing: )
Catalan: humit (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 濕 / 湿 (zh) , 湿 (zh) ( shī )
Czech: vlhký (cs)
Danish: fugtig (da)
Dutch: vochtig (nl)
Esperanto: humida
Estonian: niiske
Finnish: kostea (fi) , humidi
French: mouillé (fr) , humide (fr)
Friulian: umid
Galician: húmido (gl)
Georgian: ნესტიანი ( nesṭiani ) , ნოტიო ( noṭio ) , ტენიანი ( ṭeniani )
German: feucht (de)
Greek: υγρός (el) ( ygrós ) , νοτερός (el) ( noterós )
Hebrew: לַח (he) ( lakh )
Hindi: नम (hi) ( nam ) , गीला (hi) ( gīlā ) , आर्द्र (hi) ( ārdra ) , तर (hi) ( tar )
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 ( むしあつい, mushiatsui ) , 湿っぽい ( しめっぽい, shimeppoi ) , 湿った (ja) ( しめった, shimetta )
Kazakh: дымқыл (kk) ( dymqyl ) , сулы (kk) ( suly ) , ылғал (kk) ( ylğal )
Khmer: សើម (km) ( saəm )
Korean: 습기 가 많다 ( seupgiga manta ) , 축축하다 (ko) ( chukchukhada )
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Kyrgyz: нымдуу (ky) ( nımduu ) , жаан-чачындуу ( jaan-cacınduu )
Lao: ຊຸ່ມ ( sum ) , ຈື້ນ ( chư̄n ) , ປຽກ ( pīak )
Latgalian: volgons
Latvian: mitrs , mikls , valgs , valgans
Lithuanian: drėgnas
Macedonian: влажен ( vlažen )
Malay: lembap
Maori: haitutu
Mongolian: чийглэг (mn) ( čiigleg )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fuktig
Persian: مرطوب (fa) ( martub ) , تر (fa) ( tar )
Polish: wilgotny (pl)
Portuguese: úmido (pt) , húmido (pt)
Romanian: umed (ro)
Russian: вла́жный (ru) ( vlážnyj )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вла̏жан
Roman: vlȁžan (sh)
Slovak: vlhký
Slovene: vlažen (sl)
Spanish: húmedo (es)
Swedish: fuktig (sv)
Tajik: мартуб ( martub ) , тар (tg) ( tar )
Thai: ชื้น (th) ( chʉ́ʉn ) , เปียก (th) ( bpìiak )
Turkish: nemli (tr) , rutubetli (tr)
Turkmen: dymyk , yzgarly
Ukrainian: воло́гий ( volóhyj )
Urdu: نم ( nam ) , گیلا ( gīlā ) , تر ( tar )
Uzbek: nam (uz) , hoʻl (uz) , zax (uz)
Vietnamese: ẩm (vi)
Welsh: llaith (cy)
West Frisian: fochtich , damp
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Yiddish: פֿײַכט ( faykht )
Further reading
“humid ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
“humid ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC .
“humid ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .