umm

English

Interjection

umm

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

Verb

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

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic أُمّ (ʔumm).

Noun

umm f (plural ummát)

  1. mother

References
  • 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

Alternative forms
  • (Courland) u'mmi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oma.

Adjective

umm

  1. own
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