sôm

• som

• IPA^(key): /soŋ/, /sõ/

Uncertain, but possibly borrowed from Cantonese 餸／𩠌 (sung³, “dish”).

sôm

1. food, dish

   Palangana grándi-grándi di sôm ― large platter of food

   Vai bazar comprâ sôm ― to go to the market to get groceries (literally, “to go to the market to buy food”)

• comprâ sôm is probably a partial calque of Cantonese 買餸／买𩠌 (maai⁵ sung³), which refers generally to buying groceries to be used to prepare food, rather than directly buying food.

• sôm-cachôro (“dish made by using up odds and ends in the kitchen”)
• sôm di susto (“improvised dish or dishes”)

From Portuguese som.

sôm

1. sound

   Corneta nôm têm sôm

   The horn has no sound

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