hampa

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Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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

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

Conjugation

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Malay

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Adjective

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hampa

  1. empty
    Synonym: kosong

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Perhaps from French hampe (shaft).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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  • 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.

Derived terms

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

Noun

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hampa c (uncountable)

  1. hemp

Declension

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

Descendants

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  • Finnish: hamppu

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Noun

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hampa

  1. grass

References

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