adj
Meaning 1
Delicious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
Examples
- This apple pie is yum!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: yuck
Standard Lemma guide
yum
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /jʌm/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ʌm
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CMU ARPABET: Y AH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Yum! This apple pie is delicious!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
intj
Meaning 3
Indicating delight in other things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 4
Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 5
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Imitative.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: նյամ (nyam) — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Armenian: նյամ-նյամ (nyam-nyam) — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Catalan: nyam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Czech: mňam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Danish: mums — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Finnish: nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Finnish: nami — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Finnish: nam-nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- French: miam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- German: njam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- German: mjam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- German: lecker — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Hungarian: nyami — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Italian: gnam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Italian: ahm — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Japanese: 美味い (umai) — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Korean: 냠냠 (nyamnyam) — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Norwegian Bokmål: nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Norwegian Bokmål: nam-nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Norwegian Bokmål: nam nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nam-nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nam nam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Polish: mniam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Polish: mniam-mniam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Portuguese: mmm — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Russian: нямка (njamka) — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Spanish: ñam — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Swedish: mums — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Swedish: smaskens — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Swedish: smarrig — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Turkish: nefis, lezzetli — ''(informal)'' delicious
- Bulgarian: мляс-мляс (mljas-mljas) — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Catalan: nyam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Cherokee: ᏴᎻ (yvmi) — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Danish: mums — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Dutch: mjam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Finnish: nam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- French: miam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- German: njam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- German: mjam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- German: hm — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Italian: gnam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Polish: mniam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Portuguese: nham — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Russian: ням (njam) — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Russian: ням-ня́м (njam-njám) — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Serbo-Croatian: njam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Spanish: ñam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Swedish: mums — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Swedish: namnam — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Swedish: mums filibabba — indicating delight at the flavor of food
- Turkish: enfes — indicating delight at the flavor of food