boum

Imitative. The spelling variant boom is borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): /bum/

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boum

1. boom (sound of explosion)

boum f (plural boums)

1. dance event

• surboum

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

• bovum, boverum

boum

1. genitive plural of bōs

• boun, bōm, bōn, bām, poum, pām

From Old High German boum, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, possibly from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈbou̯m/

boum m

1. tree
2. beam

• Alemannic German: Baaum, Bum, Baim, Baum, Boum
  • Swabian: Boum, Boom
  • Walser: böim, baum, bem
• Bavarian: Bam, paam, pame
  • Cimbrian: póom, puam, pome
  • Mòcheno: pa'm
• Central Franconian: Boom, Baum, Boum, Baam
  • Hunsrik: Baam
  • Luxembourgish: Bam
  • Transylvanian Saxon: bum
• East Central German:
  • Erzgebirgisch: Baam
  • Upper Saxon German: Boom, Baam
  • Vilamovian: baojm, boum
• East Franconian: Baam, Bääm
• German: Baum
• Rhine Franconian: Baam
  • Pennsylvania German: Baam
  • Palatine German: Baam
• Yiddish: בוים (boym)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “B01671”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "boum" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

• poum, paum

From Proto-West Germanic *baum, possibly from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz.

Cognate with Old English bēam.

boum m (plural bouma)

1. tree
2. beam

• Middle High German: boum, boun, bōm, bōn, bām, poum, pām
  • Alemannic German: Baaum, Bum, Baim, Baum, Boum
    • Swabian: Boum, Boom
    • Walser: böim, baum, bem
  • Bavarian: Bam, paam, pame
    • Cimbrian: póom, puam, pome
    • Mòcheno: pa'm
  • Central Franconian: Boom, Baum, Boum, Baam
    • Hunsrik: Baam
    • Luxembourgish: Bam
    • Transylvanian Saxon: bum
  • East Central German:
    • Erzgebirgisch: Baam
    • Upper Saxon German: Boom, Baam
    • Vilamovian: baojm, boum
  • East Franconian: Baam, Bääm
  • German: Baum
  • Rhine Franconian: Baam
    • Pennsylvania German: Baam
    • Palatine German: Baam
  • Yiddish: בוים (boym)

• "boum" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

• IPA^(key): /boˈum/

boum (nominative plural boums)

1. bomb