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halma
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See also: Halma
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).
Pronunciation
Noun
halma
- (board games, uncountable) A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
- 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Christmas Revel”, in Reginald:
- As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes.
- (countable, historical) In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.
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Finnish
Etymology
From English halma, from Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma).
Pronunciation
Noun
halma
Declension
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “halma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
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Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
halma (usually uncountable, plural halmák)
Declension
Etymology 2
halom (“pile, heap”) + -a (possessive suffix)
Noun
halma
Declension
Further reading
- halma in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Indonesian
Etymology
From English halma, from Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈhalma/ [ˈhal.ma]
- Rhymes: -alma
- Syllabification: hal‧ma
Noun
- (board games) halma: a board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares
Further reading
- “halma”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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