huma
French, noun
huma is spelled H-U-M-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,719th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Huma is a French feminine noun meaning “humanity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular past historic of humer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “apocope de humanité”.
What does huma mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehumanity
verb
- 1
third-person singular past historic of humer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. apocope de humanité
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of huma
- humas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is huma in French?
huma appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).