luma

• IPA^(key): /ˈluma/
• Hyphenation: lu‧ma

From Armenian լումա (luma). Doublet of nummus.

luma (plural lumas or luma)

1. (numismatics) A currency unit of Armenia, worth one hundredth of an Armenian dram.

luminance

luma (uncountable)

1. The brightness in an image, as opposed to the saturation or chroma.

• Lamu, alum, malu, maul, mula

luma

1. house

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

Eventually from Latin pluma

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• IPA^(key): /luma/, [lu.ma]

luma inan

1. feather

   Synonym: hegats

• "luma" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “luma” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *lúmaq (“old, worn out”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumaʔ/, [ˈl̪u.maʔ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧ma

lumà (plural ruluma, intensified lumaon, plural intensified rulumaon, Basahan spelling ᜎᜓᜋ)

1. old

   Synonyms: daan, antigo

   Antonym: bago

• IPA^(key): /ˈluma/

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• Hyphenation: lu‧ma

luma (accusative singular luman, plural lumaj, accusative plural lumajn)

1. light, bright

• malluma

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ma/, [ˈlu.mə]

luma

1. (intransitive) to drown

From Old Norse luma (“to keep closely, hold tight”). Perhaps akin to Danish lomme (“pocket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʏːma/
• Rhymes: -ʏːma

luma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lumaði, supine lumað)

1. Used only in set phrases.

• luma á (“to keep something secretly; to have something up one's sleeve”)

luma

1. (interrogative) why

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

-lúma

1. to bite

Uncertain;[1] proposed derivations include:

• From a root common to Latvian lustes (“cheat grass”), Swedish losta (“cheat grass”) and Ancient Greek λάχνη (lákhnē, “woolly hair”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”). Cognates include Latin luctor (“I wrestle”), luxus (“dislocated”), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos, “twig, withe”) and Old Norse lok (“weed, unwanted plant”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.ma/, [ˈɫ̪uːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ma/, [ˈluːmä]

lūma f (genitive lūmae); first declension

1. A thorn

First-declension noun.

• lūmārius
• lūmectum

• “luma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• luma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

-lúma

1. to bite

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

-lúma

1. to bite

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Italian lombo.

• IPA^(key): /lûmḁ/

luma m

1. loin

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 393

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

-lúma

1. to bite

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *lúmaq (“old, worn out”). Compare Malay lama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlumaʔ/, [ˈlu.mɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧ma

lumà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜋ)

1. old (of objects)
2. worn; used; second-hand

   Synonyms: gamit, segunda-mano

3. out of date; old-fashioned; antiquated

   Synonym: lipas

4. remaining from the previous year (of harvested crops)

   Synonym: laon

• matanda

• IPA^(key): /luˈma/, [lʊˈma]
• Hyphenation: lu‧ma

lumá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜋ)

1. reduced in volume or quantity (by pounding, chewing, grinding, etc.)

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

luma

1. to bite

luma f

1. Alternative form of lùmia

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

• IPA^(key): [luːma]

-lûma

1. (transitive and intransitive) to bite

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ma.

IPA^(key): /lûːma/

-lûma

1. (transitive and intransitive) to bite

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “luma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “luma (3.9)”