name
Meaning 1
A female given name from Japanese.
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Standard Lemma guide
ume
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/ˈumeɪ/
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rhymes with -umeɪ
noun
Meaning 2
Chinese plum, a species of Asian plum, Prunus mume.
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noun
Meaning 3
Initialism of unusual mortality event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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History
Etymology
Borrowing from Japanese 梅 (ume).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: японска кайсия (japonska kajsija) — Japanese apricot
- Chinese: 梅 (méi) — Japanese apricot
- Chinese: 梅仔 (bôe-á) — Japanese apricot
- Chinese: 梅仔干 (bôe-á-koan) — Japanese apricot
- Chinese: 梅仔樹 /梅仔树 (mûi-á-chhiū) — Japanese apricot
- Chinese Mandarin: 梅子 (méizi) — Japanese apricot
- Esperanto: umeo — Japanese apricot
- Finnish: japaninaprikoosi — Japanese apricot
- Japanese: 梅 (ume) — Japanese apricot
- Japanese: うめ (ume) — Japanese apricot
- Korean: 매실 (maesil) — Japanese apricot
- Swahili: mzambarau — Japanese apricot
- Vietnamese: mơ — Japanese apricot
- Vietnamese: mơ ta — Japanese apricot
- Vietnamese: mơ mai — Japanese apricot