"ahum" meaning in English

See ahum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: a- + hum Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|a|hum}} a- + hum Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} ahum (not comparable)
  1. humming Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-ahum-en-adj-nbrjD3JC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with a- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Interjection

Head templates: {{en-interj}} ahum
  1. Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: ahem (extra: coughing sound)
    Sense id: en-ahum-en-intj-SYHzvpEA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for ahum meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "a",
        "3": "hum"
      },
      "expansion": "a- + hum",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "a- + hum",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ahum (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with a-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102",
          "text": "Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "humming"
      ],
      "id": "en-ahum-en-adj-nbrjD3JC",
      "links": [
        [
          "hum",
          "hum"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ahum"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ahum",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "coughing sound",
          "word": "ahem"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ahum-en-intj-SYHzvpEA",
      "links": [
        [
          "ahem",
          "ahem#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ahum"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms prefixed with a-",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "a",
        "3": "hum"
      },
      "expansion": "a- + hum",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "a- + hum",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ahum (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102",
          "text": "Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "humming"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hum",
          "hum"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ahum"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English interjections",
    "English lemmas"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ahum",
      "name": "en-interj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "coughing sound",
          "word": "ahem"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ahem",
          "ahem#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ahum"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.