yum

See also: Yum and YUM

Translingual

Symbol

yum

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yuma terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /jʌm/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Interjection

yum

1. Indicating delight at the flavor of food.

   Yum! This apple pie is delicious!

Alternative forms

• yum yum

Translations

indicating delight at the flavor of food

• Bulgarian: мляс-мляс (mljas-mljas)
• Catalan: nyam
• Cherokee: ᏴᎻ (yvmi)
• Danish: mums
• Dutch: mjam
• Finnish: nam (fi)
• French: miam (fr)
• German: njam, mjam, hm (de)
• Italian: gnam
• Polish: mniam (pl)
• Portuguese: nham (pt)
• Russian: ням (ru) (njam), ням-ня́м (ru) (njam-njám)
• Serbo-Croatian: njam (sh)
• Spanish: ñam (es)
• Swedish: mums (sv), namnam (sv)
• Turkish: enfes (tr)

Adjective

yum (not comparable)

1. (informal) Delicious.

   Antonym: yuck

   This apple pie is yum!

Derived terms

• yummo
• yummy
• yum yum

Translations

(informal) delicious — see also delicious

• Armenian: նյամ (nyam), նյամ-նյամ (nyam-nyam)
• Catalan: nyam
• Czech: mňam (cs)
• Danish: mums
• Finnish: nam (fi), nami (fi), nam-nam
• French: miam (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: njam, mjam, (but in this context mostly) lecker (de)
• Hungarian: nyami
• Italian: gnam, ahm
• Japanese: 美味い (ja) (umai)
• Korean: 냠냠 (ko) (nyamnyam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nam, nam-nam, nam nam

  Nynorsk: nam, nam-nam, nam nam

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: mniam (pl), mniam-mniam
• Portuguese: mmm (pt)
• Russian: нямка (ru) (njamka)
• Spanish: ñam (es)
• Swedish: mums (sv), smaskens (sv), smarrig (sv)
• Turkish: nefis, lezzetli

See also

• nom, nom nom, om nom nom, nom nom nom
• tom yum
• yuck someone's yum
• yum cha
• yum yum sauce

Etymology 2

Proper noun

yum

1. (computing) Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.

   Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

Anagrams

• muy

Bisu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jum/

Noun

yum (Thai spelling ยูม)

1. house.

Gitua

Noun

yum

1. water

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Yucatec Maya

Noun

yum

1. obsolete spelling of yuum