# fum
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʌm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌm

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)
* (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.
** c. 1604, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Westward Ho:Follow me, and fum as you go.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fum (plural fums)
* (mythology, obsolete) A mythological Chinese bird, the fènghuáng.
** 1823, Richard Sickelmore, The history of Brighton from the earliest period to the present time:The fum is a bird said to be found in no part of the world but China. It is described as of most admirable beauty, and if at any time absent, or long unseen, it is regarded as an omen of some misfortune to the royal family.

##### Alternative forms

* feng, fung, fung-hwang

### See also

* fee-faw-fum
* fee-fi-fo-fum

### References

* ↑ “fum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* MUF

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* fumu

### Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.

### Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)
* smoke

#### Related terms

* afum
* fumedz
* fumig

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfum]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -um

#### Noun

fum m (uncountable)
* smoke

##### Derived terms

* fumall
* fumejar
* fumer
* fumera
* ni amb fum de sabatots

##### Related terms

* fumar
* fumigar

#### Further reading

* “fum” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fum”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “fum” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “fum” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fum
* inflection of fúmer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin fames.

### Noun

fum m
* hunger

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin fūmus.

### Noun

fum m (plural fums)
* smoke

#### Related terms

* fumâ
* fumadôr
* fumât
* fumatôs
* fumate

## Galician
### Verb

fum
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

## Hunsrik
### Alternative forms

* fumm (Altenhofen spelling)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfum/
* Rhymes: -um
* Syllabification: fum
* Homophone: Fumm

### Contraction

fum
* Contraction of fun dem (“of the”).

### References

* Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “fum”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* fun

### Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

### Noun

fum oblique singular, m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)
* smoke

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fym/

### Noun

fum m
* smoke

#### Derived terms

* fumèt

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)
* smoke

#### Derived terms

* fumuriu
* înfumura

#### Related terms

* afuma
* fuma
* fumar
* fumega
* fumur

## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* fun, fumo

### Etymology

From Latin fumus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fum/

### Noun

fum m (plural fumi)
* smoke

#### See also

* fógo, fok (fire).

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fourmi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fum]

### Noun

fum
* (obsolete) ant (insect)

#### Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by furmid "ant".

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* fumanög (“ant egg”)
* fumakum (“anthill”)
* fumöp (“anthill”)