yum

yum

See also: Yum and YUM

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /jʌm/

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

Interjection

yum

1. Indicating delight at the flavor of food.

   Yum! This apple pie is delicious!

Alternative forms

• yum yum

Translations

indicating delight at the flavor of food

Catalan: nyam Danish: mums Dutch: mjam Finnish: nam (fi) French: miam (fr) German: hm (de) Italian: gnam Polish: mniam (pl) Russian: ням (ru) (njam), ням-ня́м (ru) (njam-njám) Spanish: ñam (es) Swedish: mums (sv) Turkish: enfes (tr)

Adjective

yum (not comparable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, US, informal) Delicious.

   Antonym: yuck

   This apple pie is yum!

Derived terms

• yummo
• yummy
• yum yum

 

Translations

(informal) delicious — See also translations at delicious

Armenian: նյամ (nyam), նյամ-նյամ (nyam-nyam) Catalan: nyam Czech: mňam (cs) Danish: mums Finnish: nam (fi), nami (fi), nam-nam French: miam (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: mjam Hungarian: nyami Italian: gnam, ahm Japanese: 美味い (ja) (umai) Korean: 냠냠 (ko) (nyamnyam) Norwegian: Bokmål: nam, nam-nam, nam nam Nynorsk: nam, nam-nam, nam nam Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: mniam (pl), mniam-mniam Portuguese: mmm (pt) Russian: нямка (ru) (njamka) Spanish: ñam (es) Swedish: mums (sv), smaskens (sv) Turkish: nefis, lezzetli

See also

• nom, nom nom, om nom nom, nom nom nom

 

Proper noun

yum

1. (computing) Acronym of Yellowdog Updater, Modified, a popular package manager in Linux.

   Please run yum in non-caching mode to correct this header.

Anagrams

• muy

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Bisu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jum/

Noun

yum (Thai spelling ยูม)

1. house.

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Gitua

Noun

yum

1. water

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

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Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• yuum

Noun

yum

1. father
2. lord
3. (religion, mythology) a god

   Yum K’áax ("Lord of the Forest": a Mayan god of the forest and chocolate)

   Yum Cháak ("Lord of Rain": Chaac, a Mayan rain god)