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

• MMU, Mum, mum

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