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• /ˈθʌm/
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• CMU ARPABET: TH AH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From its thumb-like shape.

Derived from Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe (“thumb”), from Old English þūma (“thumb”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō (“thumb”), from Proto-Germanic *þūmô (“thumb”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian tomme (“thumb”), Dutch duim (“thumb”), Low German Duum (“thumb”), German Daumen (“thumb”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk tomme (“inch”), Norn tum (“thumb”), Swedish tumme (“thumb”), tum (“inch”), Russian дюйм (djujm, “inch”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”). Also compare Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century. Doublet of tomb.

260 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: анацәаду (anacwadu) — digit
• Afrikaans: duim — digit
• Dupaningan Agta: agradis — digit
• Ahtna: -lacotsʼ — digit
• Alabama: ilbossiki — digit
• Albanian: gisht i madh — digit
• Albanian: gisht i madh i dorës — digit
• Albanian: pulqer — digit
• Southern Altai: эргек (ergek) — digit
• Southern Altai: башпарак (bašparak) — digit
• Arabic: إِبْهَام (ʔibhām) — digit
• Arabic: إبهام (ʔibhām) — digit
• Aragonese: pulgar — digit
• Aramaic: ܟܪܬܐ (kartāʾ) — digit
• Armenian: բութ մատ (butʻ mat) — digit
• Aromanian: pilicar — digit
• Aromanian: pulicar — digit
• Asturian: pulgar — digit
• Asturian: dedón — digit
• Asturian: deda — digit
• Asturian: matapioyos — digit
• Avar: буртӏинкилищ (burtʼinkilišš) — digit
• Azerbaijani: baş barmaq — digit
• Baatonum: atankparu — digit
• West Coast Bajau: indung — digit
• Bashkir: баш бармаҡ (baş barmaq) — digit
• Basque: erpuru — digit
• Basque: hatz lodi — digit
• Belarusian: вялі́кі па́лец (vjalíki páljec) — digit
• Bengali: বুড়া আঙ্গুল (buṛa aṅgul) — digit
• Bengali: অঙ্গুষ্ঠ (oṅguśṭho) — digit
• Bhojpuri: अंगूठा (aṅgūṭhā) — digit
• Central Bikol: tanggugurang — digit
• Central Bikol: tanggurangan — digit
• Central Bikol: tangan — digit
• Bolinao: tangan — digit
• Breton: biz-meud — digit
• Breton: bizied-meud — digit
• Breton: meud — digit
• Breton: meudoù — digit
• Bulgarian: па́лец (pálec) — digit
• Burmese: လက်မ (lakma.) — digit
• Burmese: ဒေါက်တို (dauktui) — digit
• Catalan: polze — digit
• Cebuano: kumagko — digit
• Chichewa: mphatakala — digit
• Chinese Cantonese: 手指公 (sau2 zi2 gung1) — digit
• Hakka Chinese: 手指公 (sú-chṳ́-kûng) — digit
• Hakka Chinese: 手指頭 /手指头 (sú-chṳ́-thèu) — digit
• Chinese: 大頭拇 /大头拇 (zh-min-nan) — digit
• Chinese: 指頭拇公 /指头拇公 (zh-min-nan) — digit
• Chinese: 大拇翁 (tōa-bó-ong) — digit
• Chinese: 大捗拇 (tōa-pō͘-bú) — digit
• Chinese: 大捗翁 (tōa-pu-ong) — digit
• Chinese: 指頭拇 /指头拇 (chńg-thâu-bó, chéng-thâu-bó, chín-thâu-bó) — digit
• Chinese: 大富翁 (tōa-pù-ong) — digit
• Chinese: 大拇頭 /大拇头 (tōa-bú-thâu, tōa-bó-thâu) — digit
• Chinese: 指頭公 /指头公 (chéng-thâu-kong, chńg-thâu-kong) — digit
• Chinese: 大拇公 (tōa-bó-kong, tōa-bú-kong) — digit
• Chinese Mandarin: 大拇指 (dàmuzhǐ) — digit
• Chinese Mandarin: 拇指 (mǔzhǐ) — digit
• Chinese Mandarin: 大指 (dàzhǐ) — digit
• Chinese Mandarin: 大拇哥 (dàmǔgē) — digit
• Ngazidja Comorian: shaya sha koo — digit
• Coptic: ⲧⲏⲃ ⲛⲧⲓⲛⲓ (tēb ntini) — digit
• Czech: palec — digit
• Danish: tommelfinger — digit
• Danish: tommeltot — digit
• Daur: xereg — digit
• Dhivehi: ބޮޑުވައި އިގިލި (boḍuvai igili) — digit
• Dolgan: эрбэк (erbek) — digit
• Dolgan: улакан чөмүйэ (ulakan çömüye) — digit
• Dutch: duim — digit
• Erzya: пелька (peľka) — digit
• Esperanto: polekso — digit
• Esperanto: dikfingro — digit
• Estonian: pöial — digit
• Faroese: tummil — digit
• Faroese: tummilfingur — digit
• Finnish: peukalo — digit
• French: pouce — digit
• Old French: polz — digit
• Old French: pouz — digit
• West-Frisian: tomme — digit
• Friulian: poleâr — digit
• Galician: polgar — digit
• Galician: escachapiollos — digit
• Galician: matapiollos — digit
• Georgian: ცერი (ceri) — digit
• German: Daumen — digit
• Greek: αντίχειρας (antícheiras) — digit
• Ancient Greek: ἀντίχειρ (antíkheir) — digit
• Greenlandic: kulloq — digit
• Paraguayan Guarani: kuãngusu — digit
• Gujarati: અંગૂઠો (aṅgūṭho) — digit
• Haitian Creole: pous — digit
• Hebrew: אגודל (agudál) — digit
• Hindi: अंगूठा (aṅgūṭhā) — digit
• Hungarian: hüvelykujj — digit
• Icelandic: þumall — digit
• Icelandic: þumalfingur — digit
• Ido: polexo — digit
• Ilocano: tangan — digit
• Indonesian: ibu jari — digit
• Indonesian: jempol — digit
• Indonesian: empu jari — digit
• Indonesian: biang jari — digit
• Indonesian: induk jari — digit
• Ingrian: peukalo — digit
• Ingrian: täintappaja — digit
• Interlingua: pollice — digit
• Inuktitut: ᑯᓪᓗ (kollo) — digit
• Irish: ordóg — digit
• Old Irish: ordu — digit
• Italian: pollice — digit
• Italian: dito grosso — digit
• Japanese: 親指 (oyayubi) — digit
• Javanese: jempol — digit
• Kabuverdianu: dedon — digit
• Kabuverdianu: dedóna — digit
• Kalasha: ǰeṣṭ ạ́ŋgu — digit
• Southern Kalinga: paama — digit
• Kalmyk: эркә (erkä) — digit
• Kapampangan: tindaragul — digit
• Karelian: peigalo — digit
• Kazakh: бас бармақ (bas barmaq) — digit
• Khmer: មេដៃ (mei day) — digit
• Korean: 엄지 (eomji) — digit
• Korean: 엄지손가락 (eomjison'garak) — digit
• Central Kurdish: ئەسپێکوژە (espêkuje) — digit
• Kyrgyz: баш бармак (baş barmak) — digit
• Latgalian: eikss — digit
• Latin: pollex (manūs) — digit
• Latvian: īkšķis — digit
• Lithuanian: nykštys — digit
• Low German: Dumen — digit
• Low German: Duum — digit
• Luxembourgish: Daum — digit
• Macedonian: палец (palec) — digit
• Malay: ibu jari — digit
• Malay: jempol — digit
• Malay: empu jari — digit
• Malay: biang jari — digit
• Malay: induk jari — digit
• Brunei Malay: ibu jari — digit
• Maltese: saba’ l-kbir — digit
• Manchu: ᡶᡝᡵᡥᡝ (ferhe) — digit
• Manchu: ᡶᡝᡵᡥᡝ ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ (ferhe simhun) — digit
• Māori: kōnui — digit
• Marathi: अंगठा (aṅgṭhā) — digit
• Marshallese: addi-lep — digit
• Marwari: अंगुठौ (aṅguṭhau) — digit
• Megleno-Romanian: pulicar — digit
• Middle English: thombe — digit
• Mokilese: jaidlap — digit
• Mongolian: эрхий (erxii) — digit
• Mongolian: ᠡᠷᠡᠬᠡᠢ (erekei) — digit
• Khiamniungan Naga: phōhkhò nyù — digit
• Classical Nahuatl: huēyi mahpilli — digit
• Navajo: álátsoh — digit
• Nias: turu sebua — digit
• Nogai: бас бармак (bas barmak) — digit
• Norman: ponchet — digit
• Norwegian Bokmål: tommel — digit
• Norwegian Bokmål: tommelfinger — digit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tommel — digit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tommelfinger — digit
• Occitan: poce — digit
• Occitan: pulgar — digit
• Ojibwe: midechininj — digit
• Old Church Slavonic: пальць (palĭcĭ) — digit
• Old English: þūma — digit
• Oromo: abbuudduu — digit
• Ossetian: хистӕр ӕнгуылдз — digit
• Pangasinan: tangan — digit
• Pannonian Rusyn: вельки палєц (velʹki paljec) — digit
• Pennsylvania German: Daume — digit
• Persian: ابهام (ebhâm) — digit
• Persian: شست (šast) — digit
• Piedmontese: pòle — digit
• Pitjantjatjara: maṟa mama — digit
• Plautdietsch: Düme — digit
• Polish: kciuk — digit
• Portuguese: dedo polegar — digit
• Portuguese: polegar — digit
• Punjabi: ਅੰਗੂਠਾ (aṅgūṭhā) — digit
• Rapa Nui: matu'a nea nea — digit
• Réunion Creole French: pous — digit
• Romanian: deget mare — digit
• Romanian: policar — digit
• Russian: большо́й па́лец (bolʹšój pálec) — digit
• Inari-Sami: pelgi — digit
• Northern Sami: bealgi — digit
• Skolt-Sami: peä ́lǧǧ — digit
• Southern Sami: bielkie — digit
• Sanskrit: अङ्गुष्ठ (aṅguṣṭha) — digit
• Scots: thoum — digit
• Scottish Gaelic: òrdag — digit
• Serbo-Croatian: палац — digit
• Serbo-Croatian: palac — digit
• Lower Tanana: -lochetth — digit
• Sicilian: puseri — digit
• Slovak: palec — digit
• Slovene: palec — digit
• Lower Sorbian: wjeliki palc — digit
• Spanish: pulgar — digit
• Spanish: pólice — digit
• Spanish: dedo gordo — digit
• Spanish: dedo pulgar — digit
• Sundanese: jempol — digit
• Swahili: kidole gumba — digit
• Swedish: tumme — digit
• Tagalog: hinlalaki — digit
• Tarifit: imez — digit
• Telugu: బొటనవేలు (boṭanavēlu) — digit
• Thai: นิ้วโป้ง (níu-bpôong) — digit
• Thai: หัวแม่มือ (hǔua-mɛ̂ɛ-mʉʉ) — digit
• Thai: นิ้วหัวแม่มือ (níu-hǔua-mɛ̂ɛ-mʉʉ) — digit
• Tibetan: མཐེ་བོང (mthe bong) — digit
• Tibetan: མཐེ་པོ (mthe po) — digit
• Tigrinya: ዓባይ ዓባይቶ (ʿabay ʿabayto) — digit
• Tocharian B: mokoce — digit
• Turkish: başparmak — digit
• Ottoman Turkish: باش پرمق (baš parmak) — digit
• Turkmen: başam barmak — digit
• Tuvan: матпаадыр (matpaadır) — digit
• Udmurt: пӧлы (pöly) — digit
• Ukrainian: вели́кий па́лець (velýkyj pálecʹ) — digit
• Unami: kitëlënch — digit
• Venetan: masapeoci — digit
• Venetan: dedón — digit
• Venetan: deolón — digit
• Vietnamese: ngón tay cái — digit
• Volapük: döm — digit
• Waray-Waray: tamuragko — digit
• Welsh: bawd — digit
• Winnebago: šaak hoxete — digit
• Woiwurrung: ba-bourn marnang — digit
• Woiwurrung: djŭrt-djurt — digit
• Yakut: эрбэх (erbeq) — digit
• Yiddish: גראָבער פֿינגער — digit
• Yoruba: àtàǹpàkò — digit
• Yup'ik: asaun — digit
• Yup'ik: ayaun — digit
• Yup'ik: kul'u — digit
• Finnish: liu’utin — part of a slider
• Greek: εγκοπή ευρετηρίασης (egkopí evretiríasis) — part of a slider
• Norwegian: glidebryterhåndtak — part of a slider
• Finnish: koskea peukalolla — touch with the thumb
• Finnish: peukaloida — touch with the thumb
• Russian: мусо́лить (musólitʹ) — touch with the thumb
• Bulgarian: прелиствам (prelistvam) — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• Chinese Mandarin: 翻閱 /翻阅 (fānyuè) — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• Finnish: selailla — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• French: feuilleter — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• German: durchblättern — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• Russian: листа́ть (listátʹ) — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• Russian: проли́стывать (prolístyvatʹ) — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• Russian: перели́стывать (perelístyvatʹ) — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily
• Turkish: sayfaları karıştırmak — turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily