múmia

See also: mumia, mumią, múmía, and mümia

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Mumie, from Italian mummia, from Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, wax).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmuːmijɒ]
  • Hyphenation: mú‧mia
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

múmia (plural múmiák)

  1. mummy (an embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians)
  2. (derogatory) skinny, emaciated person (skin and bones, wrinkly)
    Úgy néz ki, mint egy múmia.He/she looks like a mummy.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative múmia múmiák
accusative múmiát múmiákat
dative múmiának múmiáknak
instrumental múmiával múmiákkal
causal-final múmiáért múmiákért
translative múmiává múmiákká
terminative múmiáig múmiákig
essive-formal múmiaként múmiákként
essive-modal
inessive múmiában múmiákban
superessive múmián múmiákon
adessive múmiánál múmiáknál
illative múmiába múmiákba
sublative múmiára múmiákra
allative múmiához múmiákhoz
elative múmiából múmiákból
delative múmiáról múmiákról
ablative múmiától múmiáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
múmiáé múmiáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
múmiáéi múmiákéi
Possessive forms of múmia
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. múmiám múmiáim
2nd person sing. múmiád múmiáid
3rd person sing. múmiája múmiái
1st person plural múmiánk múmiáink
2nd person plural múmiátok múmiáitok
3rd person plural múmiájuk múmiáik

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • múmia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from classical Arabic مُومِيَاء (mūmiyāʔ), from Persian مومیا (mumyâ), from موم (mum, wax).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmũ.mi.ɐ/ [ˈmũ.mɪ.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmũ.mjɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmu.mi.a/ [ˈmu.mɪ.a], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmu.mja/

Noun

múmia f (plural múmias)

  1. mummy (embalmed cadaver)
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