ahum

See also: aḫum and aḫûm

English

Etymology 1

From a- +‎ hum.

Adjective

ahum (not comparable)

1. humming
   • 1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102:

     Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.

Etymology 2

Interjection

ahum

1. Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”)