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3-letter words (1 found)

FUM,

2-letter words (3 found)

FU,MU,UM,

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Definitions and meaning of fum

fum

Translingual

Symbol

fum

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

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Fum terms

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Verb

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.

Etymology 2

Noun

fum (plural fums)

  1. (mythology, obsolete) A mythological Chinese bird, the fènghuáng.
Alternative forms
  • feng, fung, fung-hwang

See also

References

Anagrams

  • MUF

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • fumu

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

  1. smoke

Related terms

  • afum
  • fumedz
  • fumig

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfum]
  • Rhymes: -um

Noun

fum m (uncountable)

  1. smoke
Derived terms
Related terms
  • fumar
  • fumigar

Further reading

  • “fum”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “fum”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “fum” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “fum” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

fum

  1. inflection of fúmer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fames.

Noun

fum m

  1. hunger

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin fūmus.

Noun

fum m (plural fums)

  1. smoke

Related terms

  • fumâ
  • fumadôr
  • fumât
  • fumatôs
  • fumate

Galician

Verb

fum

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
  2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

  • fumm (Altenhofen spelling)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfum/
  • Rhymes: -um
  • Syllabification: fum
  • Homophone: Fumm

Contraction

fum

  1. contraction of fun dem (of the)

References

  • Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “fum”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

Old French

Alternative forms

  • fun

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

Noun

fum oblique singularm (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)

  1. smoke

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fym/

Noun

fum m

  1. smoke

Derived terms

  • fumèt

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

  1. smoke

Declension

Derived terms

  • fumuriu
  • înfumura

Related terms

  • afuma
  • fuma
  • fumar
  • fumega
  • fumur

Venetan

Alternative forms

  • fun, fumo

Etymology

From Latin fumus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fum/

Noun

fum m (plural fumi)

  1. smoke

See also

  • fógo, fok (fire).

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourmi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fum]

Noun

fum

  1. (obsolete) ant (insect)

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by furmid "ant".

Declension

Derived terms

  • fumanög (ant egg)
  • fumakum (anthill)
  • fumöp (anthill)

Source: wiktionary.org