"Houma" meaning in English

See Houma in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

enPR: hōʹmu̇ Etymology: The city was named after the people. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Houma
  1. A city, the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. Categories (place): Cities in Louisiana, USA, Cities in the United States, Parish seats of Louisiana, USA, Places in Louisiana, USA, Places in the United States
    Sense id: en-Houma-en-name-lGJ7yr9x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English pluralia tantum, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 36 10 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 55 35 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 55 35 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 43 43 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Etymology: From Mandarin 侯馬/侯马 (Hóumǎ). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|-}} Mandarin, {{zh-l|侯馬}} 侯馬/侯马 (Hóumǎ) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Houma
  1. A county-level city in Linfen, Shanxi, China. Categories (place): Cities in Shanxi, Places in China, Places in Shanxi Synonyms: Hou-ma (alt: Wade–Giles) Translations (county-level city): 侯馬 (Chinese Mandarin), 侯马 (Hóumǎ) (Chinese Mandarin)
    Sense id: en-Houma-en-name-t0e5A7OS Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 37 57 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 43 43 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

enPR: hōʹmu̇ Etymology: The city was named after the people. Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} Houma pl (plural only)
  1. A historic Native American people of Louisiana on the east side of the Red River of the South. Tags: plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-Houma-en-noun-o3gemDuX Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 43 43 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.