Houma

See also: Hóumǎ and hòumā

English

Etymology 1

The city was named after the people.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hōʹmu̇

Noun

Houma pl (plural only)

1. A historic Native American people of Louisiana on the east side of the Red River of the South.
   • 2018 April 21, Nicky Milne, “Louisiana 'islanders' find a new home beyond the water”, in Megan Rowling, Belinda Goldsmith, editors, Reuters‎^[1], World:

     For the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, the goal now is to bring their community back together.
     But Sanders said the reality was more complex as some residents identify with another tribe - the Houma Nation - while others have no tribal affiliation. The funds will be spent on helping all those living on Isle de Jean Charles to move.

Proper noun

Houma

1. A city, the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
   • 2018 April 21, Nicky Milne, “Louisiana 'islanders' find a new home beyond the water”, in Megan Rowling, Belinda Goldsmith, editors, Reuters‎^[2], World:

     Comardelle - who left the island for the city of Houma in southeast Louisiana - splits her life between raising her family and the fight for her people's future, and has spent so much time in the office that her three children keep toys there.

   • 2021 September 1, “Hundreds of thousands in Louisiana face prolonged power, water outages after Hurricane Ida”, in France 24‎^[3], archived from the original on 01 September 2021‎^[4]:

     In hard-hit Houma, the dismal reality of life without air conditioning, refrigeration or other more basic needs began to sink in.

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Houma (HO-muh)”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1314, column 3

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 侯馬／侯马 (Hóumǎ).

Alternative forms

• Hou-ma (Wade–Giles)

Proper noun

Houma

1. A county-level city in Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • [1927, Chi Li, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections)‎^[6], volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 129:

     Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.]

   • 1946 February 28, “Briefing of Committee of Three and Commissioners, Thursday, February 28, 1946, 4 p.m.”, in Foreign Relations of the United States‎^[7], volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1972, →OCLC, page 457:

     “Team No. 14 arrived at Linfen on the 2nd of February. The fighting in that area was in the vicinity of Houma, but the situation is now stabilized and there lias been no fighting since the arrival of the team.

   • 1972, Hsia Nai, “Archaeological Work During the Cultural Revolution”, in 中国新出土文物 [New Archaeological Finds in China]‎^[8], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1973, →OCLC, page 2:

     Between 1969 and 1970 continued excavation of sacrificial pits at the site of the State of Tsin¹⁰ at Houma, Shansi Province, yielded the bones of sacrificial oxen, horses and sheep, jade blades and slips, and other relics from the 5th century B.C.

   • 2016, Jeehee Hong, “Theater of the Dead”, in Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-1400‎^[9], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:

     In addition, nine tombs of the Duan family cemetery with extravagant interior wall reliefs, known as the Macun Tombs, were found in the village of Macun in Jishan County, forty-five miles west of Houma.

   • 2020 June 15, Guannan Lu, Danny Mu, “Haier’s Adaptive Strategy Wins In The Face Of COVID-19 Challenges”, in Forrester Research‎^[10], archived from the original on 25 May 2022:

     A key tenet of Haier’s adaptive strategy is its COSMOPlat industrial IoT platform. This platform supported the establishment of the first autonomous mask production line in Houma, Shanxi with the creation of medical material information sharing platform in 2 days. Its global supply chain provided medical materials for over 400 firms for production of masks, protective clothing, and goggles.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Houma.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侯馬／侯马 (zh) (Hóumǎ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Houma (HO-MA)”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[11], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1314, column 3

Anagrams

• mohua, mouah