jima

See also: jìmǎ, jimá, and jímá

Garo

Verb

jima

1. to be very

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• nima (after a preposition)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjima/

Pronoun

jima

1. dative/instrumental/locative dual of wón

Old Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈjima/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈjima/

Pronoun

jima

1. dual dative/instrumental of ona / oně

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian ime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǐmḁ/

Noun

jima m

1. name
2. noun

Declension

Declension of jima (inan series-1a masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	jima, jiman	jimana
genitive	jimana	jimani
dative	jimanu	jimani
accusative	jima, jiman	jimana
locative	jimanu	jimana
instrumental	jimanom, jimanam	jimani

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).
• Antonietta Marra (2012), “Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases” in Morphologies in Contact.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxima/ [ˈxi.ma]
• Rhymes: -ima
• Syllabification: ji‧ma

Etymology 1

Deverbal from jimar.

Noun

jima f (plural jimas)

1. (Mexico) the harvesting and processing of agave to make mezcal

Etymology 2

Verb

jima

1. inflection of jimar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Tonga (Malawi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-tíma (“to dig - zone N”).

Verb

-jima (infinitive kujima)

1. to dig

Derived terms

• -jimpuwa (“to uproot”)

References

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎, Central Africana Limited, page 42

Tumbuka

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-tíma (“to dig - zone N”).

Verb

-jima (infinitive kujima)

1. to dig

Derived terms

• -jimizga (“to dig with vigour”)

References

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎, Central Africana Limited, page 42

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hʷima]

Verb

jima

1. (transitive) to throw water

References

• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “hima:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “himā-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021