kuum

See also: kúum

Afar

Afar numbers (edit)
 ←  1  ←  100 1,000 1,000,000 (106)  →  1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: álfi, (obsolete) kúum

Etymology

Related to Iraqw kuma, Somali kún, Oromo kuma and Saho koba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuːm/, [ˈkuːm]
  • Hyphenation: kuum

Noun

kúum m 

  1. myriad, billions
  2. (obsolete) thousand

Declension

Declension of kúum
absolutive kúum
predicative kúumu
subjective kúum
genitive kúum
Postpositioned forms
l-case kúumul
k-case kúumuk
t-case kúumut
h-case kúumuh

Synonyms

References

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “kùum”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 77
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kuuma.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuːm/

Adjective

kuum (genitive kuuma, partitive kuuma, comparative kuumem, superlative kõige kuumem)

  1. hot

Declension

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