dum

• IPA^(key): /dʌm/
• Homophone: dumb
• Rhymes: -ʌm

From Hindi दम (dam).

dum (not comparable)

1. (India, cooking) cooked with steam

dum

1. Syllable used when humming a tune.
   • 2012, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor

     I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who. Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.

dum

1. Nonstandard or humorous spelling of dumb.

• DMU, MUD, mud

From Old Norse dumbr (“dumb”), and in the main sense stupid from German dumm. Both from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare Norwegian and Swedish dum, Icelandic dumbur, English dumb, Low German dumm, Dutch dom, German dumm.

• IPA^(key): /dom/, [d̥ɔmˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɔm

dum

1. stupid, dense, dumb, thick, dim
2. foolish, silly, daft

From Latin dum.

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• IPA^(key): /dum/

dum

1. for

   Mi estos en Usono dum du jaroj.

   I will be in the USA for two years.

2. during
3. while
4. whereas

From Esperanto dum, from Latin dum.

dum

1. during, in (a period of time)

   Il esis absenta dum tri yari.

   He was absent for three years.

• dume (“meanwhile, meantime”)

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *de.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /dum/, [dũ]

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dum

1. while, as
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon III.284–285:

     fugit inreparabile tempus
     singula dum capti circumvectamur amore

     Irretrievable time flies away while, in thrall to love, we are carried about from one thing to another.

   • 16 BCE, Ovid, Amores 1.11.15:

     Dum loquor, hora fugit.

     While I speak, the hour flees away.

   Dum vīxī tacuī, mortua dulce canō. ― While I lived I was quiet; dead I sweetly sing.

2. until
3. as long as

   dum erunt homines ― as long as there are men (as long as mankind exists)

4. so long as, provided that

   Oderint, dum metuant. ― Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Most often used with the present indicative forms of verbs.

• agedum
• dūdum
• interdum
• mānedum
• nōndum

• dum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I cannot wait till..: nihil mihi longius est or videtur quam dum or quam ut
    
  • as long as one's strength holds out: dum vires suppetunt
    
  • as long as I live: dum vita suppetit; dum (quoad) vivo
    
• dum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

dum

1. wet

dum

1. Alternative form of dumb

From Old Norse dumbr, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare English dumb, Danish dum and Swedish dum, Icelandic dumbur, Dutch dom, German dumm.

dum (neuter singular dumt, definite singular and plural dumme, comparative dummere, indefinite superlative dummest, definite superlative dummeste)

1. foolish
2. stupid, silly

• dumhet

• “dum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse dumbr, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

dum (neuter singular dumt, definite singular and plural dumme, comparative dummare, indefinite superlative dummast, definite superlative dummaste)

1. foolish
2. stupid, silly

• “dum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• dun

dum m

1. down, feathers of small birds used as insulation material in duvets and sleeping bags

• Middle French: dun
• Norman: dùn
• ⇒ Old French: dumet, dumect
  • Norman: dumet, deumet
  • ⇒ Old French: duvet
    • Middle French: duvet
      • French: duvet
        • → English: duvet
    • Norman: duvet

dum

1. Alternative form of daum

• IPA^(key): /dum/

dum f

1. genitive plural of duma

• d'um (dated)

From earlier d'uma, from de (“of”) + um (“masculine singular indefinite article”)

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /dũ/
• (Portugal, following an oral sound) IPA^(key): [ðũ]
• Rhymes: -ũ

dum m

1. Contraction of de um (“pertaining or relating to a”).; of a; from a (masculine singular)

The contraction of de + um / uma is never obligatory and sometimes associated with spoken language. In a few cases it is not possible:

1. When de is part of a preposition, as in em vez de:[1]

   Em vez de um escalão ter três anos, ...

2. When um is a numeral:

   Trata-se de um ou dois dias.

• duma (feminine form)
• duns (plural form)
• dumas (feminine plural form)

From Old Frisian dumb, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz. More at dumb.

dum

1. stupid; dumb

• hoolich

• Dumstolt

From Old Swedish dumber, from Old Norse dumbr, from Proto-Germanic *dumbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Compare Norwegian dumb, Danish dum, Icelandic dumbur, English dumb, Dutch dom and German dumm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɵmː/

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dum

1. stupid, dumb
2. mean, cruel

From Persian دم‎ (dom)

dum (plural dumlar)

1. tail