ime

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ime"

Dení

Noun

ime m (feminine imani)

1. meat

References

• “ime” in Gordon Koop, Lois Koop, Dicionário deni-português, Associação Internacional de Lingüística - SIL Brasil, 1985.

Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ime/

Noun

ime

1. (anatomy) hand

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *imeh. Cognate with Finnish ihme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈime/, [ˈime̞]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: i‧me

Noun

ime (genitive ime, partitive imet)

1. miracle (a supernatural, inexplicable or very surprising phenomenon)
2. (informal) emphatic word used to strengthen the content of various exclamations of surprise, displeasure, etc.

   See on küll imede ime, et ajaleht selle loo avaldas.

   It's a wonder of wonders that the newspaper published this story.

Declension

Declension of ime (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ime	imed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ime
genitive			imede
partitive		imet	imesid
illative		imme imesse	imedesse
inessive		imes	imedes
elative		imest	imedest
allative		imele	imedele
adessive		imel	imedel
ablative		imelt	imedelt
translative		imeks	imedeks
terminative		imeni	imedeni
essive		imena	imedena
abessive		imeta	imedeta
comitative		imega	imedega

Derived terms

• imearst
• imelaps
• imeline
• imetlema

 

Further reading

• “ime”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “ime”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “ime”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• ime in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈimeˣ/, [ˈime̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation^(key): ime

Verb

ime

1. inflection of imeä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• emi, mie

Guaraní

Verb

ime

1. to be (somewhere)
2. there is or there are

Conjugation

    Conjugation of ime

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person inclusive	1st person exclusive	2nd person	3rd person
active
	indicative	che aime	nde reime	ha'e oime	ñande ñaime	ore roime	peẽ peime	ha'ekuéra oime/oime hikuái
	hortative	taime che	tereime nde	toime ha'e	tañaime ñande	taroime ore	tapeime peẽ	toime ha'ekuéra/hikuái
	imperative	-	eime	-	-	-	peime	-
passive
	indicative	che añeime	nde reñeime	ha'e oñeime	ñande ñañeime	ore roñeime	peẽ peñeime	ha'ekuéra oñeime/oñeime hikuái
	hortative	tañeime che	tereñeime nde	toñeime ha'e	tañañeime ñande	taroñeime ore	tapeñeime peẽ	toñeime ha'ekuéra/hikuái
	imperative	-	eñeime	-	-	-	peñeime	-
reciprocal
	indicative	-	-	-	ñande ñañoime	ore roñoime	peẽ peñoime	ha'ekuéra oñoime/oñoime hikuái
	hortative	-	-	-	tañañoime ñande	taroñoime ore	tapeñoime peẽ	toñoime ha'ekuéra/hikuái
	imperative	-	-	-	-	-	peñoime	-
coactive
	indicative	che amoime	nde remoime	ha'e omoime	ñande ñamoime	ore romoime	peẽ pemoime	ha'ekuéra omoime/omoime hikuái
	hortative	tamoime che	teremoime nde	tomoime ha'e	tañamoime ñande	taromoime ore	tapemoime peẽ	tomoime ha'ekuéra/hikuái
	imperative	-	emoime	-	-	-	pemoime	-
objective
	indicative	che aroime/agueroime	nde reroime/regueroime	ha'e oroime/ogueroime	ñande ñaroime/ñagueroime	ore roroime/rogueroime	peẽ peroime/pegueroime	ha'ekuéra oroime/ogueroime//oroime/ogueroime hikuái
	hortative	taroime/tagueroime che	tereroime/teregueroime nde	toroime/togueroime ha'e	tajaroime/tañagueroime ñande	taroroime/tarogueroime ore	taperoime/tapegueroime peẽ	toroime/togueroime ha'ekuéra/hikuái
	imperative	-	eroime/egueroime	-	-	-	peroime/pegueroime	-
subsuntive¹
	indicative	che aporoime/amba'eime	nde reporoime/remba'eime	ha'e oporoime/omba'eime	ñande ñaporoime/ñamba'eime	ore roporoime/romba'eime	peẽ peporoime/pemba'eime	ha'ekuéra oporoime/omba'eime//oporoime/omba'eime hikuái
	hortative	taporoime/tamba'eime che	tereporoime/teremba'eime nde	toporoime/tomba'eime ha'e	tañaporoime/tañamba'eime ñande	taroporoime/taromba'eime ore	tapeporoime/tapemba'eime peẽ	toporoime/tomba'eime ha'ekuéra/hikuái
	imperative	-	eporoime/emba'eime	-	-	-	peporoime/pemba'eime	-
		¹: the subsuntive forms with -poro- are used with humans, while the forms with -mba'e- are used with animals.

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *imē.

Noun

iṃe

1. wife of one's elder brother

Inflection

Even e-stem, ṃ-m gradation
Nominative	iṃe
Genitive	ime
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iṃe	imeh
Accusative	ime	iimijd
Genitive	ime	imij iimij
Illative	iṃán	iimijd
Locative	iimeest	iimijn
Comitative	iimijn	imijguin
Abessive	imettáá	imijttáá
Essive	immeen
Partitive	immeed
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

Further reading

• ime in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎^[1], Tromsø: UiT

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmʲə]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish imbe n (“the act of fencing or hedging; fence, hedge; weir, dam”), verbal noun of im·fen.

Noun

ime f (genitive singular ime, nominative plural imeadha) (literary)

1. fence, hedge
2. dam, weir

Declension

Declension of ime (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ime imeadha vocative a ime a imeadha genitive ime imeadha dative ime imeadha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ime na himeadha genitive na hime na n-imeadha dative leis an ime don ime leis na himeadha

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ime m

1. genitive singular of im

Mutation

Mutated forms of ime

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ime	n-ime	hime	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ime”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Adjective

ime

1. feminine plural of imo

Anagrams

• emi, emi-, mei, mie

Japanese

Romanization

ime

1. Rōmaji transcription of いめ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records imme as an equivalent of English dew and haze in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ìmɛ̀ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a monosyllabic stem, together with mũri, ngo, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.

Noun

ime class 5

1. dew

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

• mũrũngũru wa njamba ũmaathaga na ime
• njĩra ya mũũri ĩgĩaga na ime mũthenya

References

• “ime” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 254. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 19.

Latin

Adjective

ime

1. vocative masculine singular of imus

Nakame

Noun

ime

1. (Gufin) Alternative form of imi

References

• Rachel Gray, Margaret Potter, Thom Retsema, Mungkip: an endangered language, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 35 (2009), page 25

Numanggang

Noun

ime

1. (Tumung) water

Synonyms

• mi (Kawalang)

References

• Rachel Gray, Margaret Potter, Thom Retsema, Mungkip: an endangered language, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 35 (2009), page 25

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀇𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• इमे (Devanagari script)
• ইমে (Bengali script)
• ඉමෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဣမေ or ဢိမေ (Burmese script)
• อิเม (Thai script)
• ᩍᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ອິເມ (Lao script)
• ឥមេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄨𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

ime

1. masculine nominative/accusative plural of ima (“this”)

Pronoun

ime

1. masculine nominative/accusative plural of ima (“this”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈime]

Verb

ime

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of ima

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• jime (Chakavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /îme/
• Hyphenation: i‧me

Noun

ȉme n (Cyrillic spelling и̏ме)

1. name

   djevojka po imenu Pepeljuga

   a girl by the name Cinderella

Declension

Declension of ime

	singular	plural
nominative	ȉme	imèna
genitive	ȉmena	iménā
dative	imenu	imenima
accusative	ime	imena
vocative	ime	imena
locative	imenu	imenima
instrumental	imenom	imenima

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ime.

Derived terms

• ȉmenskī
• ȉmenovati

Related terms

• prèzime

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьmę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iméː/

Noun

imẹ̑ n

1. name

Inflection

Declension of ime (neuter, n-stem)
nom. sing.	ime
gen. sing.	imena
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ime	imeni	imena
accusative	ime	imeni	imena
genitive	imena	imen	imen
dative	imenu	imenoma	imenom
locative	imenu	imenih	imenih
instrumental	imenom	imenoma	imeni

Derived terms

• imenováti

Further reading

• “ime”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Tocharian A

Etymology

Borrowed from Tocharian B īme.

Noun

ime m

1. consciousness, awareness, thought, memory

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *imeh.

Pronunciation

• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈime/, [ˈime]
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: i‧me

Noun

ime

1. (Jõgõperä) miracle

Inflection

Jõgõperä declension of ime singular plural nominative ime imeed genitive imee imeďďe partitive imettä imeit illative imeese imeise inessive imeez imeiz elative imeess imeiss allative imeele imeile adessive imeel imeil ablative imeelt imeilt translative imeessi imeissi

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *imbī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈimə/

Noun

ime c (plural imen, diminutive ymke)

1. honeybee

Further reading

• “ime”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zande

Noun

ime

1. water
   • 1967, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, The Zande Trickster, page 230:

     bebere uru ki ta da gbinza de ki ni mo ka ye ka tu ga ri ime
     at midday an old wman came to draw her water

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)