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Huma Source
Guest
هما
Arabic
Pronunciation
/hu.maː/
Pronoun
Huma bird
The Huma, also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables.
The Huma bird is said to have both the male and female natures in one body, each nature having one wing and one leg.
Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth.
Herman Melville briefly alludes to the bird in "Moby-Dick". At the beginning of the chapter entitled "The Tail," the narrator speaks of "the bird that never alights.
Arabic
Pronunciation
/hu.maː/
Pronoun
- they both, the two of them (masculine or feminine dual subject pronoun)
Huma bird
The Huma, also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables.
The Huma bird is said to have both the male and female natures in one body, each nature having one wing and one leg.
Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth.
Herman Melville briefly alludes to the bird in "Moby-Dick". At the beginning of the chapter entitled "The Tail," the narrator speaks of "the bird that never alights.