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uuma.

waist (part of a body)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈuːmɑ/[ˈuːmɑ̝]
  1. waist (part of a body)

    in-plural · sometimes
  2. web (thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail)

  3. web (the thinner section of a train wheel)

  4. web (interconnection between flanges in structural members)

  5. girdle (line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond)

Where this word comes from

Unknown. Possibly derived from dialectal uu (“hole, nest”) (compare uumen), but this remains very much speculative on semantic grounds.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.