hampa

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Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hampa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hampaði, supine hampað)

  1. to dandle
  2. to hold something up for show

Conjugation[edit]

Malay[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hampa

  1. empty
    Synonym: kosong

Further reading[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps from French hampe (shaft).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈampa/ [ˈãm.pa]
  • Rhymes: -ampa
  • Syllabification: ham‧pa

Noun[edit]

hampa f (plural hampas)

  1. underworld (part of society that is engaged in crime or vice)
    • 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
      Este tipo se llamaba Misha Semionovich Pavlov y era una especie de mago del hampa moscovita.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes[edit]

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el hampa, un hampa
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish hampa, hamper, from Old Norse hampr, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz.

Noun[edit]

hampa c (uncountable)

  1. hemp

Declension[edit]

Declension of hampa 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hampa hampan
Genitive hampas hampans

Descendants[edit]

  • Finnish: hamppu

Further reading[edit]

Zou[edit]

Noun[edit]

hampa

  1. grass

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