See also: dröm and drøm

Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Greek δρόμος (drómos, road).

Noun edit

drom ?

  1. highway

Synonyms edit

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch droom, from Proto-Germanic *þrumi, *dramjan, related to *þrumjaz (disturbance, violence). See also Old Saxon drom, Old English þrymm. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /drɔm/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: drom
  • Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun edit

drom m (plural drommen)

  1. flock (of people), throng, crowd

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)

  1. Alternative form of droim

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
drom dhrom ndrom
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Mauritian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From English drum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

drom

  1. a membranophone
  2. a large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage

Old Saxon edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old English drēam (joy, music, dream), Old Frisian drām, Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.

Noun edit

drōm m

  1. joy, pleasure, ecstasy
    Drôm drohtines endi dagskîmon: Joy of the lord and daylight.
  2. music, song
  3. dream
    That he manno drôm ageƀen scolde: That he should give the men's dream.

Declension edit


Descendants edit

  • Middle Low German: drōm
    • Westphalian:
      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum The template Template:rfc-sense does not use the parameter(s):
      2=is this Ravensbergisch or another Lippisch term? what's the source? — Lippisch (Korl Biegemann, Wilhelm Oesterhaus, [https://www.kinder-lippe.de/lippisch-platt/plattdeutsches-lexikon.html kinder-lippe.de]) has "Draum", see below.
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      (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
      Lippisch: Draum
      Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem
      Westmünsterländisch: Droom
    • Plautdietsch: Droom

Romani edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, road).[1][2]

Noun edit

drom m (nominative plural droma)

  1. way,[1][3][4] road[1][3][4]

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “drom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 77b
  2. ^ Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 101
  3. 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o drom, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 132ab
  4. 4.0 4.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “drom, ~a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148a