bom

bom

1. earth

From Dutch bom, from French bombe.

• IPA^(key): /bɔm/

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bom (plural bomme, diminutive bommetjie)

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

• atoombom
• kernbom
• tydbom

 

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Wikipedia ^da

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

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ɔmˀ]

bom c (singular definite bommen, plural indefinite bomme)

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

“bom” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /bɔm/

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• Hyphenation: bom
• Rhymes: -ɔm

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

bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

1. bomb (explosive)
2. (Suriname) gas cylinder (cylindrical vessel for compressed gas)

   Synonyms: gasbom, gascylinder, gasfles

• atoombom
• bermbom
• bombrief
• brandbom
• clusterbom
• fotobom
• kernbom
• tijdbom

• Afrikaans: bom
• → Caribbean Javanese: bom
• → Indonesian: bom
• → Sranan Tongo: bom
• → West Frisian: bom

Clipping of bomschuit.

bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

1. (historical) flat-bottomed marine fishing vessel

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

bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

1. (archaic) bung, stopper (for barrels)

   Synonyms: spon, stop

Borrowed from English bom.

• IPA^(key): /bom/

bom

1. bomb

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. boom, tree, pole.

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”).

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

• bum

• “bom” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔm/

bom m ? (diminutive bomk)

1. tree
   • 2011 September 27, I. Neumannojc, "Sadowe bomy za derjeměśe luźa a natury", 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.

• 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 Wikipedia has an article on:

bom

Wikipedia ^ms

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos).

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

1. bomb

• “bom” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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”).

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)

• bompenger
• bomvei

• “bom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German bom.

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)

• “bom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *baum.

bōm m

1. tree

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: bôom
  • Dutch: boom
    • Afrikaans: boom
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: bom
    • Jersey Dutch: bôm
    • Negerhollands: bom, boom
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: bom (archaic)
    • Polish: bom, bum
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: bom, boom
    • Sranan Tongo: bon
      • Aukan: bon
    • → English: boom
    • → Indonesian: bom (“tree, pole”), bum
  • Limburgish: boum

• “bōm”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

bōm m

1. tree

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

• bô (dialectal)
• bão (Eye dialect)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonos, earlier duenos, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

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

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• Rhymes: -õ
• Hyphenation: bom

bom (feminine boa, masculine plural bons, feminine plural boas)

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bom.

(all senses):

• mau
• ruim

bom

1. well, very well

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bom.

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

• bem
• bondade

• (adverb, noun) bem
• (comparative) melhor
• (superlative) ótimo, boníssimo
• ("diminutive") bonzinho
• mau

• IPA^(key): /bóːm/

bọ̑m

1. first-person singular future of bíti

From Dutch boom.

bom c

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

• (miss): miss

• bakom lås och bom

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

Borrowed from French bombe.

(classifier quả, trái) bom

1. bomb

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

(classifier quả, trái) bom

1. (dialectal) apple

• táo tây, táo, bôm (regional)

Borrowed from English bone.

• IPA^(key): /bom/

bom (nominative plural boms)

1. bone

• bäkabom (“backbone”)
• bomem
• fitabom

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

• IPA^(key): /bom˧/

bom

1. (transitive) to bind

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