bôm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bom"

Macanese

Alternative forms

• bóm, bô

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/

Adjective

bôm (adverb bêm)

1. good

   bôm-sono ― goodnight

   más bôm ― better (literally, “more good”)

   bôm cara ― good-looking (literally, “good face”)

   bôm coraçám ― kind-hearted, generous person (literally, “good heart”)

   Êle têm bôm paga

   He has a good salary

Usage notes

• bôm coraçám may be a calque of Cantonese 好心 (hou² sam¹).
• bô is very rarely used standalone,and mostly only in interjections such as bô-tarde.

Derived terms

• nê-bôm

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Tày

Etymology

Compare bâm.

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓom˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓom˦]

Noun

bôm (𱑼)

1. tray

   tọn bôm ― to clean a tray

   bôm chè ― tea tray

   bôm khẩu cẩu cần ― a tray with nine eaters

   cáy tốc bôm khẩu slan

   to be unexpectedly lucky

   (literally, “a chicken falls into a rice tray”)

Derived terms

• bôm toòng
• củ bôm
• lọt bôm

 

References

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓom˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓom˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓom˧˧]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pomme; the phoneme /p/ is changed into /ɓ/ as it is not a native onset consonant.

Noun

(classifier trái, quả, cây) bôm

1. (regional) apple

Synonyms

• (apple): táo tây, táo, bom (dated)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bôm

1. a plant-derived tar

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːm/

Verb

bôm

1. first-person plural present subjunctive of bod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bôm	fôm	môm	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.