num

Abbreviation of English Niuafo'ou with m as a placeholder.

num

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Niuafo'ou.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Niuafo'ou terms

num (plural nums)

1. Abbreviation of number.
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

• num.

num

1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.

• nom

• nom
• num-num

• MUN, mun, nmu, unm., Mun., Mun

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/ [ˈnʊm]
• Hyphenation: num

núm m (plural mára m or marí f)

1. man, male
   • 2006, “Ruut 1:2 [Ruth 1:2]”, in Nabuwwa kee malikwa [Prophets and kings]‎^[2]:

     Too waqdi Alimelek deqsita num, lab-xayloh nammay kee barra gabat hayya heeh, Yuudâ-baaxok Beetlacam deqsitta magaalak Mooyab deqsita marih baaxo fan dulah gexe.

     So a man called Elimelek, he went together with two sons and a wife, he migrated from a town called Betlehem in Judea to the country of the nation called Moab.

2. person, human being
3. mankind, humanity

• (diminutive): numóyta

• labhá (“men”)

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/ [ˈnũm]
• Rhymes: -um

num

1. (Galician-Asturian) alternative form of nun

• nom (Western, Northeastern, Southeastern)

From Proto-Nuristani *nāma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

num m (Western (Ktivi))^[1]

1. name

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnum]

num (not comparable)

1. (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation, such as: Is it? It isn’t, is it?

   Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.

   Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.

   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 16.56:

     Num igitur hōrum senectūs miserābilis fuit, quī sē agrī cultiōne oblectābant?

     Was the old age of these men then miserable — men who found such delight in the tilling of their land? [On the contrary, these distinguished elders enjoyed life on their country estates.]

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.369–370:

     “Num flētū ingemuit nostrō? Num lūmina flexit?
     Num lacrimās victus dedit, aut miserātus amantem est?”

     “Was he troubled by our tears? Did he [even] turn his eyes [to notice]? Has he been taken [by love and] shed tears, or pitied the one who loved him?”
     (The anaphora of the three “nums” marks an ascending tricolon or tricolon crescens. Dido refers to herself using the “majestic plural” or “royal we”: nostro; and Dido uses third person singular verbs to question the actions of Aeneas who is standing before her.)

2. (in an indirect question) whether
3. now (only in the phrase etiam num)

• numne
• numquid
• nunc

• nōnne

• “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “num”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    

From Proto-Finnic *nummi. Cognates include Finnish nummi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/, [ˈnumː]

num

1. heather
2. pine forest

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “num”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[5] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

num oblique singular, m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

1. alternative form of nom

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: num

num

1. instrumental/locative singular of onu

• n'um (pre-standardization spelling)
• nũ (obsolete)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: num

num (feminine numa, masculine plural nuns, feminine plural numas)

1. contraction of em +‎ um, literally “in a (masculine)”
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:

     Não devia estar num quarto particular?

     Shouldn't he be in a private room?

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.^[1]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

num (not comparable)

1. eye dialect spelling of não
   • 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:

     Eu num estou doido […] !

     I'm not crazy […] !

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

• “num”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “num”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

num

1. romanization of 𒉏 (num)