num

num (plural nums)

1. Abbreviation of number.
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

• num.

num

1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.

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• Mun, Mun., mun, nmu

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/, [ˈnʊm]
• Hyphenation: num

núm m 

1. man, male
2. person, human being
3. mankind, humanity

núm

1. someone

• (diminutive): numóyta

• labhá (“men”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /num/, [nʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /num/, [num]

num (not comparable)

1. now (only in the phrase etiam num)
2. (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation

   Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.

   Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.

3. (in an indirect question) whether

• numne
• numquid
• nunc

• nōnne

• “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    

From Proto-Finnic *nummi. Cognates include Finnish nummi.

num

1. heather

num oblique singular, m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

1. Alternative form of nom

• n'um (dated)
• nũ (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: num

num (feminine numa, masculine plural nuns, feminine plural numas)

1. Contraction of em um (“in a (masculine)”).
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:

     Não devia estar num quarto particular?

     Shouldn't he be in a private room?

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.[1]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

num (not comparable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of não.
   • 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:

     Eu num estou doido […] !

     I'm not crazy […] !

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

num

1. Romanization of 𒉏 (num)