fum

fum

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fum.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fum terms

• IPA^(key): /fʌm/

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.^[1]
   • c. 1604, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Westward Ho:

     Follow me, and fum as you go.

Borrowed from Chinese 鳳 / 凤 (fèng).

fum (plural fums)

1. (mythology, obsolete) The fenghuang, a mythological Chinese bird.
   • 1823, Richard Sickelmore, The history of Brighton from the earliest period to the present time:

     The fum is a bird said to be found in no part of the world but China. It is described as of most admirable beauty, and if at any time absent, or long unseen, it is regarded as an omen of some misfortune to the royal family.

• feng, fung, fung-hwang

• MUF

• fumu

From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.

fum n (plural fumuri)

1. smoke

• afum
• fumedz
• fumig

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfum]

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• Rhymes: -um

fum m (uncountable)

1. smoke

fum

1. inflection of fúmer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fum”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fum”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “fum” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fum” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin fames.

fum m

1. hunger

From Latin fūmus.

fum m (plural fums)

1. smoke

fum

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

• fumm (Altenhofen spelling)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfum/
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: fum
• Homophone: Fumm

fum

1. contraction of fun +‎ dem, literally “of the”

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “fum”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

• fun

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

fum oblique singular, m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)

1. smoke

• IPA^(key): /fym/

fum m

1. smoke

Onomatopoeic. See also fungar.

• Hyphenation: fum

fum

1. Imitating a heavy, nasal breath.

fum m (uncountable)

1. heavy breath

• Used only in a few set phrases.

• “fum”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fum”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
• “fum”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “fum”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “fum”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

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fum n (plural fumuri)

1. smoke

• fun, fumo

From Latin fumus.

• IPA^(key): /fum/

fum m (plural fumi)

1. smoke

• fógo, fok

Borrowed from French fourmi.

• IPA^(key): [fum]

fum

1. (obsolete) ant (insect)

   Synonym: furmid