kuma

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kuma"

Languages (21)

Bambara • Basque • Dangaléat • Guinea-Bissau Creole • Hoava • Jamtish • Japanese • Kaurna • Kituba • Kongo • Lindu • Maaka • Mauritian Creole • Oromo • Polish • Rama • Serbo-Croatian • Swahili • Taivoan • Turkish • Ye'kwana

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Bambara

Verb

kuma

1. (intransitive) to speak

Noun

kuma

1. word, that which is spoken

References

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

Basque

kuma

Noun

kuma inan

1. A cradle.

Synonyms

• sehaska

Dangaléat

Noun

kúmá (West), kūmà (East)

1. meat

   kúm dì (West), kūm dī (East) : only the meat (showing regular deletion of the -a when another syllable follows)

References

• Jean Pierre Caprile: Études phonologiques tchadiennes

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese como.

Pronoun

kuma

1. that
2. what
3. how

Hoava

Noun

kuma

1. water

References

• Karen Davis, A grammar of the Hoava language, Western Solomons (2003), page 36

Jamtish

Etymology

From Old Norse koma (“to come”), from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”).

Pronunciation

• (Åre) IPA^(key): [²kʰoˑmuᵝ]
• (Mattmar, Näskott) IPA^(key): [²kʰɔːmɔ]
• (Hackås, Hallen, Håsjö, Häggenås, Hällesjö, Marieby, Revsund, Rätan) IPA^(key): [²kʰuᵝmːa]
• (Rödön) IPA^(key): [²kʰuᵝmːæ]
• (Hammerdal) IPA^(key): [²kʰɔmːa]
• (Berg) IPA^(key): [²kʰɶmːa]
• (Ragunda) IPA^(key): [²kʰuᵝma], [²kʰuᵝmːa]
• (Fors) IPA^(key): [²kʰʊma]

Verb

kuma

1. to come

Conjugation

Conjugation of kuma — active (irregular, strong class 4)

infinitive	kuma
present participle	kuman, kumanes
past participle	kwmin
supine	kwmið
	present	past
indicative	kum	kumeð
subjunctive	―	kumi
imperative
2nd-person singular	kum
1st-person plural	kumum
2nd-person plural	kuman

Further reading

• Bucht, Torsten. 1924. Äldre u ock o i kort stavelse i mellersta Norrland. pp. 81-82.

Japanese

Romanization

kuma

1. Rōmaji transcription of くま

Kaurna

Noun

kuma

1. another

   kumarta ― different, distinct, separate

   kumartappendi ― to separate

Numeral

kuma

1. one

   kuma partirrka ― one hundred

   kuma uwata ― one thousand

   kumiwurru ― one million

   kumanti ― only one, just one

   kumangka ― to be one; together

   kuma kumangka ― one after the other

   kumarluku ― once

   kumarlukunti ― only once

   kumapurtu ― all at once

References

• Warra Kaurna Yalaka, ed. Rob Amery. November 2017

Kituba

Verb

kuma

1. to arrive

Kongo

Verb

kuma

1. to arrive

Lindu

Noun

kuma

1. germ

Maaka

Noun

kuma

1. ear

References

• Russell G. Schuh, Maka Wordlist, p. 6

Mauritian Creole

Adverb

kuma

1. alternative spelling of kouma

Oromo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *kum-. Compare Hadiyya kúma, Sidamo kúme and Somali kun.

Numeral

kuma

1. thousand

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ma/

• (Masovia):
  • (Łowicz) IPA^(key): [ˈku.ma]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uma
• Syllabification: ku‧ma

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin com-

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr

Proto-Italic *patēr

Latin pater

Latin compaterbor.

Proto-Slavic *kъmotrъ

Proto-Slavic *kumъ

Old Polish kum

Polish kum

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀ

Proto-Slavic *-a

Old Polish -a

Polish -a

Polish kuma

From kum + -a.

Noun

kuma f (male equivalent kum)

1. female equivalent of kum (“godmother”)
2. (colloquial) neighbor, neighbour
3. (colloquial) friend

Declension

Declension of kuma

	singular	plural
nominative	kuma	kumy
genitive	kumy	kum
dative	kumie	kumom
accusative	kumę	kumy
instrumental	kumą	kumami
locative	kumie	kumach
vocative	kumo	kumy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kuma m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of kum

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kuma

1. third-person singular present of kumać

Further reading

• kuma in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kuma in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Marzena Kozanecka-Zwierz, Magdalena Bartosiewicz, Renata Marciniak-Firadza, editors (2014), “kuma”, in Gwara – Księżaków "język ojczysty" Dziedzictwo regionu łowickiego (in Polish), Łowicz: Muzeum w Łowiczu, →ISBN, page 37

Rama

Noun

kuma

1. woman

References

• Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 29

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǔːma/

Noun

kúma f (Cyrillic spelling ку́ма)

1. godmother
2. goodwife, gossip

Further reading

• “kuma”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swahili

Etymology

Cognate with Yao (Africa) likuma (“vagina”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

kuma class IX (plural kuma class X)

1. vulva
2. (vulgar) vagina, cunt

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:uke

Taivoan

Noun

kuma

1. the crowds
2. the Shrine of Taivoan in some Taivoan communities.
3. younger brother

Adjective

kuma

1. many (people)

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قومه (kuma), itself from Proto-Turkic *koma.

Noun

kuma (definite accusative kumayı, plural kumalar)

1. a woman who lives with a married man (and the rest of his family), concubine

Declension

Declension of kuma

singular plural nominative kuma kumalar definite accusative kumayı kumaları dative kumaya kumalara locative kumada kumalarda ablative kumadan kumalardan genitive kumanın kumaların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular kumam kumalarım 2nd singular kuman kumaların 3rd singular kuması kumaları 1st plural kumamız kumalarımız 2nd plural kumanız kumalarınız 3rd plural kumaları kumaları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular kumamı kumalarımı 2nd singular kumanı kumalarını 3rd singular kumasını kumalarını 1st plural kumamızı kumalarımızı 2nd plural kumanızı kumalarınızı 3rd plural kumalarını kumalarını dative singular plural 1st singular kumama kumalarıma 2nd singular kumana kumalarına 3rd singular kumasına kumalarına 1st plural kumamıza kumalarımıza 2nd plural kumanıza kumalarınıza 3rd plural kumalarına kumalarına locative singular plural 1st singular kumamda kumalarımda 2nd singular kumanda kumalarında 3rd singular kumasında kumalarında 1st plural kumamızda kumalarımızda 2nd plural kumanızda kumalarınızda 3rd plural kumalarında kumalarında ablative singular plural 1st singular kumamdan kumalarımdan 2nd singular kumandan kumalarından 3rd singular kumasından kumalarından 1st plural kumamızdan kumalarımızdan 2nd plural kumanızdan kumalarınızdan 3rd plural kumalarından kumalarından genitive singular plural 1st singular kumamın kumalarımın 2nd singular kumanın kumalarının 3rd singular kumasının kumalarının 1st plural kumamızın kumalarımızın 2nd plural kumanızın kumalarınızın 3rd plural kumalarının kumalarının Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular kumayım kumalarım 2nd singular kumasın kumalarsın 3rd singular kuma kumadır kumalar kumalardır 1st plural kumayız kumalarız 2nd plural kumasınız kumalarsınız 3rd plural kumalar kumalardır

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	kuma
Brazilian standard	kuma
New Tribes	cuma

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *kuma; compare Apalaí kuma, Kari'na kuma, Trió 'ma, Wayana kuna, Akawaio ï'ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kuma]

Verb

kuma

1. (intransitive, of water) to flood, to overflow

Derived terms

• kumaajö
• kumadü

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “chuumadö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 227, 387, 393: “chu:madü 'rising water, high water' […] chu:madü - rising river […] kuma:dü - to flood, overflow (lit. rising river)”