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huma.

unirrigated, dry or hill rice field

4 characters2 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈhuma/Standard-Indonesian[ˈhu.ma]Standard-Indonesian

  1. unirrigated, dry or hill rice field

  2. newly cleared land

  3. rice field

    dialectal · usually
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Malay huma, from Proto-Malayic *huma(ʔ) (“farmland”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma (“farm”), from Proto-Austronesian *qumah (“swidden”). Doublet of uma. False cognate of Latin humus.

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