num

See also: Appendix:Variations of "num"

Translingual

Etymology

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

Symbol

num

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Niuafo'ou terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Inflection of nim.

Verb

num

1. past participle of nim

Etymology 2

Shortening of number.

Noun

num (plural nums)

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

Alternative forms

• num.

Derived terms

• num lock

Etymology 3

Likely onomatopoeic.

Interjection

num

1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
   • 2011 July 22, Brooks Barnes, “Vampires Meet Auteurs at Fan Fest”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 June 2021:

     Speaking from a microphone in the audience, a woman in her 20s said she was impressed with the trailer because it shows off Mr. Pattinson’s back muscles. “I think I can speak for all of us when I say num, num, num,” she said to screams. (Mr. Pattinson looked mortified.)

Alternative forms

• nom

Related terms

• nom
• num-num

Anagrams

• MUN, mun, nmu, unm., Mun., Mun

Afar

Etymology

Cognate with Saho numa (“woman”), Somali nin (“man”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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]‎^[3]:

     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

Declension

Declension of núm
absolutive	núm
predicative	númu
subjective	núm
genitive	numtín
Postpositioned forms l-case númul k-case númuk t-case númut h-case númuh

Derived terms

• (diminutive): numóyta

See also

• labhá (“men”)

References

• 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)‎^[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Galician

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

num

1. (Galician-Asturian) alternative form of nun

Judeo-Tat

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥

Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma

Old Persian 𐎴𐎠𐎶 (n-a-m)

Middle Persian ŠM

Classical Persian نَام (nām)

Judeo-Tat num

Inherited from Classical Persian نَام (nām), from Middle Persian ŠM, from Old Persian 𐎴𐎠𐎶 (n-a-m), from Proto-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /num/

Noun

num

1. name
2. title

References

• Нафталиев, М. Н. (2015), “num”, in Е. М. Назарова, editor, Еврейско (джуури)-русский словарь [Juhuri–Russian Dictionary]‎^[5], Moscow: СТМЭГИ, page 361

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

• nom (Western, Northeastern, Southeastern)

Etymology

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

Noun

num m (Western (Ktivi))

1. name

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

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, Vergilius, Aeneis 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)

Derived terms

• numne
• numquid
• nunc

See also

• nōnne

References

• “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^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    

Livonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/, [ˈnumː]

Noun

num

1. heather
2. pine forest

Declension

Declension of num (99)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	num	nūmõd
genitive (genitīv)	num	nūmõd
partitive (partitīv)	nummõ	nūmidi
dative (datīv)	nummõn	nūmõdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	nummõks	nūmõdõks
illative (illatīv)	nummõ	nūmiž
inessive (inesīv)	numsõ	nūmis
elative (elatīv)	numstõ	nūmist

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “num”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[7] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Old French

Noun

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

1. alternative form of nom

Polish

Etymology

Coined by science fiction and fantasy writer Jacek Dukaj in 2004, in his book titled Perfect Imperfection.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

num

1. instrumental/locative singular of onu

Portuguese

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnũ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnũ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: num

Etymology 1

Contraction

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?

Usage notes

• The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

Etymology 2

Adverb

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 […] !

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

Further reading

• “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

Romansh

Alternative forms

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

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

Noun

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

Sumerian

Romanization

num

1. romanization of 𒉏 (num)