சும்மா

Tamil

According to the Tamil Lexicon, a contraction of சுகமாக (cukamāka), from சுகம் (cukam, “comfort”), from Sanskrit सुख (sukha). Cognate to Kannada ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ (summane) and Malayalam ചുമ്മാ (cummā).

சும்மா • (cummā)

leisurely (without occupation or work)
- 1990, Ilayaraja (lyrics and music), “சும்மா நீ”, in Periya Veetu Pannakkaran (soundtrack)‎^[1]:
  சும்மா நீ சுத்தாதே / சொன்னாலே தட்டாதே
  cummā nī cuttātē / coṉṉālē taṭṭātē
  I am leisurely going around you / knocking when you say
in normal condition, in health
silently, quietly
without any reason
uselessly
vaguely, unintentionally, at random
as a joke
(colloquial) gratuitously
freely, unhesitatingly, unceremoniously
- 2013, Anirudh Ravichander (lyrics and music), “Chennai City Gangsta”, in Vanakkam Chennai (soundtrack)‎^[2]:
  உங்க ஊரு சப்பாத்தி குருமா / எங்க ஊரு இட்லி போல வருமா / நாங்க சென்னை city boys-ஸு / சும்மா கம்முன்னு கெடமா
  uṅka ūru cappātti kurumā / eṅka ūru iṭli pōla varumā / nāṅka ceṉṉai city boys-su / cummā kammuṉṉu keṭamā
  You guys will have a chapati with kurma / we will get idli / we are Chennai city boys / sit down quietly and unceremoniously
continuously, repeatedly

Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “சும்மா”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]