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Shum

Shum proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Shum (plural Shums)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Shum

pluralShums

Origin of Shum

Borrowed from Cantonese 岑 (sam4) or Cantonese 沈 (sam2), when the initial was still [ɕ] during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Phrases with Shum

Questions about Shum

What does Shum mean?
Shum means a surname.
What part of speech is Shum?
Shum is a proper noun.

Words near Shum in the dictionary

  1. Shultzes
  2. shulwar
  3. shulwars
  4. shulwaur
  5. shulwaurs
  6. Shum
  7. Shum Chun
  8. shumac
  9. shumaced
  10. shumacing
  11. shumack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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