hampa

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -am̥pa

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Malay

Adjective

hampa

  1. empty
    Synonym: kosong

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Perhaps from French hampe (shaft).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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 quote)

Usage notes

  • The feminine noun hampa is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:
el hampa
un hampa
  • However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

hampa c

  1. hemp

Descendants

  • Finnish: hamppu

Zou

Noun

hampa

  1. grass

References

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