umm

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English

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Interjection

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umm

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

Verb

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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

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Cypriot Arabic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).

Noun

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umm f (plural ummát)

  1. mother

References

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  • 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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *oma.

Adjective

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umm

  1. own