Meaning of "namma hole" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NAMMA HOLE

From a native Australian language.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF NAMMA HOLE

namma hole  [ˈnæmə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAMMA HOLE

Namma hole is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NAMMA HOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of namma hole in the English dictionary

The definition of namma hole in the dictionary is a natural well in a rock.

TRANSLATION OF NAMMA HOLE

Find out the translation of namma hole to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of namma hole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «namma hole» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: namma孔
• Translator English - Spanish: agujero namma
• English: namma hole
• Translator English - Hindi: namma छेद
• Translator English - Arabic: ناما حفرة
• Translator English - Russian: Намма отверстие
• Translator English - Portuguese: buraco namma
• Translator English - Bengali: Namma গর্ত
• Translator English - French: trou namma
• Translator English - Malay: Lubang namma
• Translator English - German: namma Loch
• Translator English - Japanese: namma穴
• Translator English - Korean: namma 구멍
• Translator English - Javanese: Namma hole
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lỗ Namma
• Translator English - Tamil: அம்மா துளை
• Translator English - Marathi: Namma hole
• Translator English - Turkish: Namma deliği
• Translator English - Italian: namma foro
• Translator English - Polish: Namma dziura
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Намму отвір
• Translator English - Romanian: gaură NAMMA
• Translator English - Greek: Namma τρύπα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Namma gat
• Translator English - Swedish: namma hål
• Translator English - Norwegian: namma hull

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAMMA HOLE»

Discover the use of namma hole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to namma hole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Dinkum Dictionary

namma hole When white men came to give their horses water for a few days, the natives found to their dismay that the waters had dried away; for the well was only a rock hole that had filled with sand, and once the water was drained out ...

Susan Butler, 2010

My Fourth Tour in Western Australia

The " namma hole " was equal to the emergency. By bailing the water with a quart pot into a bucket, all the horses and camels were watered, and after a two days' camp at the spot, the cistern in the rocks was not dry when my informant and his ...

Albert Frederick Calvert, 1897

Manual of Style for Use in Composition and Proof Reading

namesake. namma-hole. i nannybcrry. nap-taking. ! nape-crest. narrow (prefix), all take hyphen. natterjack. navel-string, wort. I navy-yard. near-legged, sighted, sightednes3. ! neatherd. I neat's-foot (a.), i neb-neb. 1 neekband, cloth, lace, laced, ...

United States. Government Printing Office, 1904

Spinifex and sand: a narrative of five years' pioneering and ...

us back towards the West ; we could see their camps, one close to the namma- hole, another four miles away, with crushed seed lying about, and a few roots pulled up. Warri said they were " tired fella " from the way they walked. All this made ...

David Wynford Carnegie, 1898

Zero At The Bone

The bleached skull of a giant cat, distinguished by its curved forehead and great fangs, lowerjaw intact, sat in a dry namma hole amidst a rug of fur and claws. ' You bring him that too?' Swann asked. 'Last year,' Oats answered. 'Shot him down ...

David Whish-Wilson, 2013

Bulletin

Namma-hole (Aiist). A natural well. (Standard) Nankin porcelain. Blue china. ( Standard) Nannies (York.). Natural Joints, cracks, or slips In the coal measures. See also Cleat, 1. (Gresley) Nantokite. Cuprous chloride. CuiClj. Granular, massive.

‎1920

The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses ...

Namma-hole (Aust). A natural welL (Standard) Nankin porcelain. Blue china. ( Standard) - Nannies (York.). Natural Joints, cracks, or slips In the coal measures. See also Cleat 1. (Gresley) Nantokite. Cuprous chloride, CuiCU. Granular, massive ...

Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy, 1920

A Glossary of the Mining and Mineral Industry

Namma-hole (Aust.). A natural well. (Standard) Nankin porcelain. Blue china. ( Standard) Nannies (York.). Natural joints, cracks, or slips in the coal measures. See also Cleat, 1. (Gresley) Nantoklte. Cuprous chloride, CujCU. Granular, massive.

Albert Hill Fay, 1920

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Policeman: back 5.: 1851 (Mayhew, I); virtually T by 1910. namma hole. Better gnamma hole, q.v. nammas. Var., in Renton Nicholson, An Autobiography, 1860, of:nammous or namous; occ. nammus or nommus; rarely namus and T namase.

Eric Partridge, 2006

The Low Bed of a Faller

Shadeside ofa namma hole Shallow water set beside her Breathing sunny, gettin' ol'. Sandal slap and cooker hiss Fill the plate with meat Soon I'll sit on counter top Am dyin' on my feet. THE LEAVING OF LAGOS Singing's gone they say, sung ...

George D. Shorten, 2008