nom

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɒm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /nɑm/

  • Audio (Midland US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒm

Short form of various words.

nom (plural noms)

1. (informal) Clipping of nomination.
   • 2000 May 30, "Webmaster -- Kevin Stroud" (username), "Re: RBL nomination for 195.235.113.140 (mail.teleline.es) -- 5th supporting email, in news.admin.net-abuse.email, Usenet:

     I have already submitted a revised (in terms of format) nomination. […] In the future I will try to better organize my information (one message per nom, snip out excess spam if I post, etc.).

   • 2001 July 17, William Tunstall-Pedoe, “problems/suggestions for this group”, in alt.anagrams‎^[4] (Usenet):

     The obvious way to reduce the number of noms is to increase the standard.

   • 2010 February 13, "Juan F. Lara" (username), "2/5-7 Weekend BoxOffice", in rec.arts.animation and rec.arts.disney.animation, Usenet:

     Particularly "Mr. Fox" now that it has an Oscar nom to boast about.

2. (informal) Clipping of nominator.
3. (informal) Clipping of nominee.

nom (third-person singular simple present noms, present participle nomming, simple past and past participle nommed)

1. (transitive, informal) Clipping of nominate.
   • 1998, blaque, “A Teeny Favor (Was: Re: NOMINATION: Ms A.T. Rookie (fwd)”, in alt.tasteless‎^[5] (Usenet):

     I have a little request to make. When you kids nom, do you think you could make clear who it is you're nomming -- and maybe even include the article headers for the voters (and the judge) -- many of whom are not psychics?

   • 2001, William Tunstall-Pedoe, “problems/suggestions for this group”, in alt.anagrams‎^[6] (Usenet):

     Quite a big percentage of the anagrams posted here get nommed - IMO it should only be around 20% or so.

   • 2007, Variety staff, "Composer Prince dies" (obituary):

     Emmy-nommed composer Robert Prince died March 4 in Los Angeles after a brief illness.

Onomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom,^[1] popularized from 2007 in internet use, second place in American Dialect Society "Word of the Year" 2010.^[2] From the catchphrase of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, as at the end of “C Is For Cookie” (1971), made when devouring cookies. However, as late as 2009, this was canonically written with a ‘u’, as in S is For School! (2006), as “num num”, or in the press kit for the 40th season (2009), as “un num num num num”;^[3] by 2013 this was changed to the now-popular nom.^[4][5]

nom

2. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating. Commonly used as "nom nom nom".

   [to a baby] You are so cute, I could just eat you right up! Nom nom nom.

Considered annoying and childish by some.^[5][6]

nom (third-person singular simple present noms, present participle nomming, simple past and past participle nommed)

1. (colloquial) To eat with noisy enjoyment. [with on]

• NMO, Mon., mon-, Mon, 'mon, mon., MON, mon, ONM, MNO

• Tone: LL^[1]

nom

1. to drink

   nom nsu - to drink water

• Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎^[7], Basel, page 337

• nomu

Borrowed from Greek νόμος (nómos).

nom n (plural nomuri)

1. law
2. rule
3. belief

• (law): leadzi, zãcon
• (belief): pisti, fedi

• nem

• IPA^(key): /ˈnom/ [ˈn̪om]

nom (Basahan spelling ᜈᜓᜋ᜔)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) Hello

   Synonyms: komusta, tara

nom (Basahan spelling ᜈᜓᜋ᜔)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) What's up?

   Synonym: tara

Inherited from Old Catalan nom, from Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈnɔm]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔm

nom m (plural noms)

1. name (word that indicates a particular person, place, or thing)
2. (grammar) noun
3. name (reputation)

• (name): apel·latiu
• (noun): substantiu
• (reputation): fama, reputació

• anomenar
• malnom
• nom propi

• cognom
• nominal
• nominatiu
• pronom
• sobrenom

• “nom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nom”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “nom” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nom” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

nom

1. six

Inherited from Old French nom (whence Norman nom), from Latin nōmen (whence Italian and Portuguese nome; Spanish nombre), from Proto-Italic *nomən, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (whence Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma), Russian и́мя (ímja), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), English name).

• (Paris) IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

  • Audio (Paris); “le nom”:

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /nõʊ̯̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophones: noms, non, nons

nom m (plural noms)

1. a name, especially a last name or family name

   Un nom de famille est un nom propre. ― A family name is a proper noun.

   Votre nom et prénom, s’il vous plaît. ― Your last name and first name, please.

2. a noun

   Un nom de famille est un nom propre. ― A family name is a proper noun.

• (noun): nom adjectif (= adjectif), nom substantif (= substantif)

• nomination
• nomenclature

• Antillean Creole: non
• Haitian Creole: non
• Louisiana Creole: nom
• Mauritian Creole: non
• Seychellois Creole: non

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

• mon

nom

1. reintegrationist spelling of non

From Latin nōmen (whence French nom, Italian nome, Portuguese nome, Spanish nombre), from Proto-Italic *nomən, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (whence Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma), Russian и́мя (ímja), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), English name).

nom

1. name

nom

1. Romanization of ꦤꦺꦴꦩ꧀

From Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Compare Khowar نم (nam).

nom (Arabic نوم)

1. name

   Tay nom kía?

   What is your name?

• num (Western Kata-viri)

From Proto-Nuristani *nāma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnom/

nom (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)^[1][2]

1. name

Borrowed from Italian nome.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːm/

nom m (plural nomi)

1. (grammar) noun

nom

1. third-person preterite of nimen

• naom (Guernsey)

From Old French nom (whence French nom), from Latin nōmen (whence Italian nome, Portuguese nome, Spanish nombre), from Proto-Italic *nomən, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (whence Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma), Russian и́мя (ímja), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), English name).

• Audio (Jersey):

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nom m (plural noms)

1. (Jersey) name
2. (Jersey, grammar) noun

• nom vèrbal (“verbal noun, gerund”)

nom (plural nïïm)

1. head

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[8], 2005

• (Provence) noum

From Old Occitan nom, from Latin nōmen (whence French nom, Italian nome, Portuguese nome, Spanish nombre), from Proto-Italic *nomən, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (whence Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma), Russian и́мя (ímja), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), English name).

• Audio:

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nom m (plural noms)

1. name
2. (grammar) noun

• IPA^(key): /nom/

nom

1. first/third-person preterite of niman

• non, noum, noun, num, nun

Inherited from Latin nōmen.

nom oblique singular, m (oblique plural nons, nominative singular nons, nominative plural nom)

1. name
2. (grammar) noun

• French: nom
• Norman: nom
• Walloon: no
• → Middle English: noun, none, nown, nowne, noune
  • English: noun

nom

1. Alternative form of non
   • 14th-15th centuries, O Livro de Exopo, A rã e o boi:

     Madre, nom faças, ca tu es muy pequena cousa a rrespeyto d’este boy.

     Mother, don't do it, because you are a very small thing compared to this ox.

From Latin nōmen (whence Italian nome, Portuguese nome, Spanish nombre), from Proto-Italic *nomən, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (whence Ancient Greek ὄνομα (ónoma), Russian и́мя (ímja), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man), English name).

nom m (oblique plural noms, nominative singular noms, nominative plural nom)

1. name

• Occitan: nom

• Hyphenation: nom

nom (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of não, representing Alto Alentejan, Minhoto, Portuense and Transmontano Portuguese.

• nëmë (Zumu)

From Proto-Nuristani *nāmu (due to the absence of a final vowel), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /nom/ (tone class A)

nom (Pronz)^[1]

1. name

nom

1. don't

   Tadan nom! ― Don't be afraid!

• haser

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

nom • (𥈶, 𫌢)

1. to look at
2. to look after