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Ima

Ima

English

Contraction

Ima

  1. Alternative form of Imma (I'm going to).
    • 2000, Charlotte Carter, Coq au vin, Warner Books, ISBN 0446607878, pg. 124:
      Ima call her as soon as you hang up.
  2. (nonstandard) I'm.
    • 2006, Dax Herrera, Edgar N Vective: Paranormal Detective, Hammerica Publishing, ISBN 0615135218, pg. 65:
      Ima gonna close my eyes and you toss that there pebble in the air.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Ima

  1. (dated) A formerly common Anglo-American given name.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hebrew אמא.

Proper noun

Ima

  1. Mom, Mommy, one's mother

Anagrams

ima

ima

See also: ímã and îmă

English

Contraction

ima

  1. Alternative form of Imma

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

īmā

  1. third-person singular possessed form of maitl (his/her/its hand)

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from imád.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈimɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ima

Noun

ima (plural imák)

  1. prayer

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative ima imák
accusative imát imákat
dative imának imáknak
instrumental imával imákkal
causal-final imáért imákért
translative imává imákká
terminative imáig imákig
essive-formal imaként imákként
essive-modal
inessive imában imákban
superessive imán imákon
adessive imánál imáknál
illative imába imákba
sublative imára imákra
allative imához imákhoz
elative imából imákból
delative imáról imákról
ablative imától imáktól
Possessive forms of ima
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. imám imáim
2nd person sing. imád imáid
3rd person sing. imája imái
1st person plural imánk imáink
2nd person plural imátok imáitok
3rd person plural imájuk imáik

Derived terms


Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, *qalima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima, *qalima.

Noun

ima

  1. (anatomy) hand (part of the body)

Italian

Adjective

ima

  1. feminine singular of imo

Itawit

Noun

ima

  1. hand

Japanese

Romanization

ima

  1. rōmaji reading of いま

Latin

Adjective

īma

  1. nominative feminine singular of īmus
  2. nominative neuter plural of īmus
  3. accusative neuter plural of īmus
  4. vocative feminine singular of īmus
  5. vocative neuter plural of īmus

īmā

  1. ablative feminine singular of īmus

References


Quechua

Adjective

ima

  1. any

Adverb

ima

  1. also, and

Noun

ima

  1. thing, something

Declension

Pronoun

ima

  1. (interrogative pronoun) what
  2. (indefinite pronoun) thing

Romanian

Etymology

From im or possibly from Latin līmāre, present active infinitive of līmō (I besmirch, bespatter with mud).

Verb

a ima (third-person singular present imă, past participle imat) 1st conj.

  1. (regional) to dirty, besmirch, make dirty with mud or dung
  2. (regional, figuratively) to desecrate or defile through words or curses

Synonyms

Related terms

  • im
  • imăciune

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic إِيمَاء (ʾīmāʾ).

Noun

ima (definite accusative }}}, plural }}})

  1. hint