halma

From Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhalmə/

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halma

1. (board games, uncountable) A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
   • 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Christmas Revel”, in Reginald:

     As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes.

2. (countable, historical) In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.

• Hamal, Mahal, almah, amlah, hamal, mahal

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑlmɑ/, [ˈhɑ̝lmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑlmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): hal‧ma

halma

1. (board games) halma

• “halma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• mahla

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒlmɒ]
• Hyphenation: hal‧ma
• Rhymes: -mɒ

halma (usually uncountable, plural halmák)

1. (board games) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

halom (“pile, heap”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

halma

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of halom

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• halma in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Ancient Greek ἅλμα (hálma, “leap”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhalma]
• Hyphenation: hal‧ma

halma (plural halma-halma, first-person possessive halmaku, second-person possessive halmamu, third-person possessive halmanya)

1. (board games) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value): a board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.

• “halma” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.