lumi

• lume, alumi

From Latin lūmen. See figurative meaning as the "light of life". Compare Megleno-Romanian lumi and Romanian lume.

lumi f (definite articulation lumea)

1. people
2. world
3. humanity, mankind

• lunjinã

• oaminj
• pimintu
• cozmu, dunjeai, etã, plasi

From lumo (“light”) +‎ -i.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlumi]
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• Rhymes: -umi
• Hyphenation: lum‧i

lumi (present lumas, past lumis, future lumos, conditional lumus, volitive lumu)

1. (intransitive) to shine

   La stratlampo ekster mia dormoĉambra fenestro tutnokte lumas, do mi ne bezonas dormolampon.

   The streetlight outside my bedroom window shines all night long so I do not need a night light.

• lumigi

• brili

From Proto-Finnic *lumi, from Proto-Uralic *lome. Cognates include Finnish, Võro, Votic, Ingrian, Livvi, Karelian, and Veps lumi, Livonian lum; Southern Sami lopme (from Proto-Samic *lomë); Erzya and Moksha лов (lov); Eastern Mari лум (lum), Western Mari лым (lym); Komi-Zyrian лым (lym), Udmurt лымы (lymy); Tundra Nenets ёмзесь (yomzyesʹ°), [script needed] (jomća’, “light snowfall”), Nganasan дӱм (ďúm, “snowfall”), Southern Selkup чом- (ćom, “to snow”), and possibly also dialectal/dated Hungarian lom (“rime; hoarfrost”).

Irregularly, the final consonant of the stem changes *m > n in the partitive singular, due to assimilation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/, [ˈlumi]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -umi
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumi (genitive lume, partitive lund)

1. snow (soft white flakes consisting of ice crystals falling from clouds, mainly in winter; a layer or accumulation of these on the ground or another surface)

   lund sadama ― to snow, to be snowing (literally, “to precipitate snow”)

2. (slang) cocaine

• lumi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “lumi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Proto-Central-Pacific *lumu, from Proto-Oceanic *lumut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *lumut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *lumut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut.

lumi

1. moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)

From Proto-Finnic *lumi, from Proto-Uralic *lome.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/, [ˈlumi]
• Rhymes: -umi
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧mi

lumi

1. snow (frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation; sometimes also similar frozen forms of other substances)

   sataa lunta ― to snow, be snowing

2. (slang) cocaine

   Synonyms: see kokaiini

• “lumi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• limu, muli

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lumi

1. room (division in a building)

lumi

1. first/third-person singular subjunctive of luma

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/

lumi

1. plural of lumo

From Proto-Finnic *lumi. Cognates include Finnish lumi and Estonian lumi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/, [ˈɫumi]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/, [ˈɫumi]
• Rhymes: -umi
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumi

1. snow
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:

     Luikot lentäät - lumi tulloo.

     The swans fly - snow is coming.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 280

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.mi/
• Rhymes: -umi
• Hyphenation: lù‧mi

lumi m

1. plural of lume

• muli

From Portuguese lume.

lumi

1. fire

From Proto-Finnic *lumi. Cognates include Finnish lumi and Estonian lumi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumi (genitive lumen, partitive lunta or lunda)

1. snow

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “lumi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “снег”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *lumi.

lumi

1. snow

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Sicilian lumia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluː.mɪ/

lumi m (collective, singulative lumija, paucal lumijiet)

1. lemons

From Latin lūmen. Compare Aromanian lumi and Romanian lume.

lumi f

1. world

• IPA^(key): [lumʲ]

lumi

1. inflection of lume:
   1. plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

Borrowed from Caló lumí (“concubine, beloved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love”). Cognate with Carpathian and Sinte Romani lubni (“whore”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/ [ˈlu.mi]
• Rhymes: -umi
• Syllabification: lu‧mi

lumi f (plural lumis)

1. (colloquial) slut; slag; hussy (prostitute)

   Synonyms: puta, zorra

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumiʔ/, [ˈlu.mɪʔ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumì (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜋᜒ)

1. softening of leaves (of bananas, tobacco, etc.)
2. (grammar) penultimate syllabic stress (with a glottal ending)

   Coordinate terms: lumay, bilis, dagsa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlumiʔ/ [ˈlu.mɪʔ], /luˈmiʔ/ [lʊˈmiʔ]
• Rhymes: -umiʔ, -iʔ
• Syllabification: lu‧mi

lumì or lumî (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜋᜒ)

1. Alternative form of lomi

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumiʔ/, [ˈlu.mɪʔ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumì (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜋᜒ)

1. Alternative form of yumi

From Proto-Finnic *lumi, from Proto-Uralic *lome.

lumi

1. snow

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “снег”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *lumi, from Proto-Uralic *lome.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumʲi/
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumi (genitive lumõ, partitive lummõ)

1. snow

From Proto-Finnic *lumi, from Proto-Uralic *lome.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈlumi/, [ˈɫumʲi]
• Rhymes: -umi
• Hyphenation: lu‧mi

lumi

1. snow

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “lumi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn