numa

• IPA^(key): /nùꜛmá/

numa (Kana spelling ヌマ, possessed form numaha)

1. (anatomy) body hair, fur

• otop (“head hair”)
• rutu (dialectal)

• John Batchelor (1905) An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language)‎^[1], Tokyo, London: Methodist Publishing House; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner Co., page 298

numa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぬま

From Dutch nu maar, nu means “now” and maar means “just”.

numa

1. but
2. only
3. just

• n'uma (obsolete)
• nũa (obsolete)

numa f sg

2. Contraction of em uma (“in a (feminine)”): feminine singular of num
   • 1915, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), “É noite”:

     É noite. A noite é muito escura. Numa casa a uma grande distancia. Brilha a luz d'uma janella.

     It's night. The night is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

numa

1. (nonstandard) alternative typography of numa’