hampa

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -am̥pa

Verb

hampa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hampaði, supine hampað)

  1. to dandle
  2. to hold something up for show

Conjugation

Malay

Adjective

hampa

  1. empty
    Synonym: kosong

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Perhaps from French hampe (shaft).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈampa/ [ˈãm.pa]
  • Rhymes: -ampa
  • Syllabification: ham‧pa

Noun

hampa f (plural hampas)

  1. underworld (part of society that is engaged in crime or vice)
    • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
      Este tipo se llamaba Misha Semionovich Pavlov y era una especie de mago del hampa moscovita.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el hampa, un hampa
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hampa, hamper, from Old Norse hampr, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz.

Noun

hampa c (uncountable)

  1. hemp

Declension

Declension of hampa 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hampa hampan
Genitive hampas hampans

Descendants

  • Finnish: hamppu

Further reading

Zou

Noun

hampa

  1. grass

References

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