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bom

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bom"

Abinomn

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Noun

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bom

  1. earth

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch bom, from French bombe.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bɔm/
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Noun

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bom (plural bomme, diminutive bommetjie)

  1. bomb, explosive
  2. (figurative) bombshell (something sensational, amazing or controversial)

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Low German bōm (“tree”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, *bagmaz, compare German Baum and English beam.

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Noun

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bom c (singular definite bommen, plural indefinite bomme)

  1. bar, tollbar
  2. barrier (rail)
  3. beam
  4. boom

Inflection

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Declension of bom
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bom bommen bomme bommene
genitive boms bommens bommes bommenes

References

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“bom” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French bombe, still attested as bombe in Early Modern Dutch.

Noun

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bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

  1. bomb (explosive)
    Er werd een bom ontdekt in het treinstation. ― A bomb was discovered in the train station.
    De bommen vielen op de stad tijdens de luchtaanval. ― The bombs fell on the city during the air raid.
    Hij maakte een klein bommetje in het zwembad. ― He made a small splash in the pool. (figurative use)
  2. (Suriname) gas cylinder (cylindrical vessel for compressed gas)
    Synonyms: gasbom, gascylinder, gasfles
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: bom
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bom
  • → Indonesian: bom
  • → Sranan Tongo: bom
  • → West Frisian: bom

Etymology 2

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Clipping of bomschuit.

Noun

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bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

  1. (historical) flat-bottomed marine fishing vessel

Etymology 3

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From Middle Dutch bomme, bonne, probably of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *bunda, feminine form of *bundos (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-, *bʰudʰmḗn.[1]

Noun

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bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

  1. (archaic) bung, stopper (for barrels)
    Synonyms: spon, stop

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  1. ^ “bonde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Iban

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bom.

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Noun

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bom

  1. bomb

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɔm]
  • Hyphenation: bom

Etymology 1

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From Dutch bom, from French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”).

Noun

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bom (first-person possessive bomku, second-person possessive bommu, third-person possessive bomnya)

  1. bomb, an explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
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Compounds

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Etymology 2

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From Dutch boom (“tree, pole”), from Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch bōm, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

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bom (first-person possessive bomku, second-person possessive bommu, third-person possessive bomnya)

  1. boom, tree, pole.

Etymology 3

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From Dutch slagboom (“boom barrier, boom gate”) or boom (“beam, barrier”). Compare to Dutch boomklok (“A bell tolled during the opening (in the morning) or closing (in the evening) of a port”, literally “beam bell”).

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bom (first-person possessive bomku, second-person possessive bommu, third-person possessive bomnya)

  1. boom barrier, boom gate
  2. (figuratively) harbor, harbour.
    Synonym: pelabuhan
  3. (figuratively) customs.
    Synonym: pabean
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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German boum (German Baum), or East Central German, German Low German Boom.[1]

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Noun

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bom m inan (diminutive bomk)

  1. tree
    • 2011 September 27, I. Neumannojc, “Sadowe bomy za derjeměśe luźa a natury”, in Nowy Casnik:
      Sadowe bomy w burskich gumnach a teke na dwórach su typiske za naš region.
      Fruit trees in farmers’ gardens and even in courtyards are typical for our region.

Declension

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Declension of bom
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bom boma bomy
Genitive boma bomowu bomow
Dative bomoju bomoma bomam
Accusative bom boma bomy
Instrumental bomom bomoma bomami
Locative bomje bomoma bomach

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  1. ^ Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Further reading

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  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bom”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bom”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Malay

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos).

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bom (Jawi spelling بوم, plural bom-bom, informal 1st possessive bomku, 2nd possessive bommu, 3rd possessive bomnya)

  1. bomb

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From either Middle Low German bōm, from Old Saxon bōm or from Dutch boom (“tree, beam, mast, boom”), from Middle Dutch bôom (“tree, beam, pole, boom barrier”), from Old Dutch bōm (“tree”), from Proto-West Germanic *baum (“tree, beam”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz, *bagmaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to grow, swell”).

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bom m (definite singular bommen, indefinite plural bommer, definite plural bommene)

  1. a boom (for a sail, crane, microphone etc.)
  2. a barrier (at a railway crossing etc.)
  3. a beam (in gymnastics: balance beam)
  4. a derrick (nautical, for loading/unloading cargo)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German bom.

Noun

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bom m (definite singular bommen, indefinite plural bommar, definite plural bommane)

  1. a boom (as above)
  2. a barrier (as above)
  3. a beam (as above)
  4. a derrick (nautical, for loading/unloading cargo)

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Imitative.

Interjection

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bom

  1. boom

Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Noun

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bōm m

  1. tree

Inflection

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • “bōm”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Noun

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bōm m

  1. tree

Declension

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Declension of bōm (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative bōm bōmos
accusative bōm bōmos
genitive bōmes bōmō
dative bōme bōmum
instrumental — —


Descendants

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  • Middle Low German: bôm
    • German Low German: Boom
    • Plautdietsch: Boom
    • → Danish: bom
    • → Finnish: puomi
    • → Gutnish: bom
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: bom
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: bom
    • → Swedish: bom

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Dutch boom.[1][2]

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Noun

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bom m inan

  1. boom (a gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam)
    Synonym: tram
  2. (sailing) boom (a spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour)
  3. boom (a wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment)
Declension
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Declension of bom
singular plural
nominative bom bomy
genitive bomu bomów
dative bomowi bomom
accusative bom bomy
instrumental bomem bomami
locative bomie bomach
vocative bomie bomy

Etymology 2

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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bom

  1. dong (sound of a bell, clock, etc.)

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

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bom

  1. Combined form of bo + -m

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References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “bom”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “bom”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonos, earlier duenos, from Proto-Italic *dwenos.

Compare Fala and Galician bo, Spanish bueno, French bon, Italian buono, and Romanian bun. Doublet of bónus, a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -õ
  • Hyphenation: bom
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Adjective

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bom (feminine boa, masculine plural bons, feminine plural boas, comparable, comparative melhor, superlative o melhor or ótimo or boníssimo)

  1. good
    1. desirable, positive, advantageous
    2. (in reference to senses) pleasant, enjoyable, (of food) tasty
      Esta brisa é boa.
      This breeze is pleasant.
      Synonyms: agradável, aprazível
    3. (of a person) kind, generous, acting morally
      Synonyms: gentil, generoso
      Ele é um homem bom.
      He is a good man.
    4. (of quantity or time) sizeable, reasonable, significant
      Synonyms: razoável, significante
      uma boa parte
      a significant part

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:bom.

Antonyms

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(antonym(s) of “all senses”):

Interjection

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bom

  1. well, very well

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:bom.

Derived terms

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  • bom dia
  • For terms derived from the feminine inflection, boa, see ==Derived terms== in boa.
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Slovene

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bọ̑m

  1. first-person singular future of bíti

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Dutch boom.

Noun

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bom c

  1. a barrier (in the form of a pole that can be raised/lowered or opened/closed)
  2. a miss, failure to hit
  3. a boom (sail)
  4. a boom (type of balance beam, used in gymnastics)

Declension

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Declension of bom 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bom bommen bommar bommarna
Genitive boms bommens bommars bommarnas

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Tày

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bom

  1. to encourage; to provoke
    bom đếch pin mạy ― to nudge the children into climbing trees
    bom cần tò fật ― to encourage wrestling

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  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[4][5] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French bombe.

Noun

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(classifier quả, trái) bom

  1. bomb
    Synonym: trái phá (obsolete)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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(classifier quả, trái) bom

  1. (dialectal) apple
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Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bone.

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Noun

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bom (nominative plural boms)

  1. bone

Declension

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declension of bom
singular plural
nominative bom boms
genitive boma bomas
dative bome bomes
accusative bomi bomis
vocative 1 o bom! o boms!
predicative 2 bomu bomus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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References

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  • SARMENTO, Leila Lauar. Gramática em textos. 2nd edition. São Paulo, Brazil: Moderna, 2005.

Zou

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Verb

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bom

  1. (transitive) to bind

References

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  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 81
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