suman

See also: Suman, sùman, and šuman

English

Etymology

From Tagalog suman.

Noun

suman (uncountable)

1. Rice cake from the Philippines made from glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk, usually eaten sprinkled with sugar or laden with latik.

Anagrams

• Manus, Usman, manus, namus

Akan

Noun

suman (Twi)

1. amulet

   Synonym: bansere

References

• LearnAkan (2018–present), “amulet”, in LearnAkanDictionary.com (overall work in English)

Finnish

Noun

suman

1. genitive singular of suma

Anagrams

• masun, musan

Galician

Verb

suman

1. inflection of sumir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Gothic

Romanization

suman

1. romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐌰𐌽

Japanese

Romanization

suman

1. Rōmaji transcription of すまん

Old Norse

Pronoun

suman

1. masculine accusative singular of sumr

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian сукман (sukman), of Turkic origin. Compare Hungarian szokmány, Polish sukmana, Ukrainian чекмінь (čekminʹ), Russian чекмень (čekmenʹ), Belarusian чэкмень (čekmjenʹ).

Noun

suman n (plural sumane)

1. knee-long peasant's coat

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	suman	sumanul	sumane	sumanele
genitive-dative	suman	sumanului	sumane	sumanelor
vocative	sumanule		sumanelor

Spanish

Verb

suman

1. third-person plural present indicative of sumar
2. inflection of sumir:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsuman/ [ˈsuː.mɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -uman
• Syllabification: su‧man

Noun

suman (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜋᜈ᜔)

1. suman (Filipino rice cake cooked in coconut milk, often wrapped in leaves)

Descendants

• → English: suman
• → Chamorro: suman

See also

• tamales

Further reading

• “suman”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• Usman