umm

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English[edit]

Interjection[edit]

umm

  1. Alternative form of um
    - How does a plane fly?
    - Umm, I don't know.

Verb[edit]

umm (third-person singular simple present umms, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed)

  1. Alternative form of um (to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy).

Anagrams[edit]

Cypriot Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).

Noun[edit]

umm f (plural ummát)

  1. mother

References[edit]

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 144

Livonian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *oma.

Adjective[edit]

umm

  1. own