Baum

Baum

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Hugo Baum (1866-1950).

• Author query of the International Plant Names Index

Borrowed from German Baum.

Baum (plural Baums)

1. A surname.

• -umab

• Boum (variant spelling, at least in Kölsch uncommon)
• Boom (most dialects)
• Baam (southern Moselle Franconian)

Inherited from Middle High German boum.

• IPA^(key): /bɔu̯m/

Baum m (plural (Kölsch) Bäum or (Westerwald) Baim, diminutive Bäumche or Baimche)

1. (Kölsch, Westerwald) tree

   Nää, su ne schöne Baum krije mer niemols mih!

   No, we’ll never get such a beautiful tree again!

   • 2003, “Rut sin de Ruse”‎^[1]performed by De Boore:

     Och unsre Baum, dä steiht noch do, wo ich dat Hätz erenjemaht.
     Dä Baum, dä hät uns beiden Jlöck jebraht.

     Our tree is still standing there too, the one in which I carved a heart.
     That tree has brought the two of us luck/happiness.

From Middle High German boum, from Old High German boum, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz. Akin to Dutch boom, Low German Boom, West Frisian beam, English beam.

• IPA^(key): /baʊ̯m/, [baʊ̯m]

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯m

Baum m (strong, genitive Baumes or Baums, plural Bäume, diminutive Bäumchen n or Bäumlein n)

1. tree

   Vögel nisten gerne in Bäumen. ― Birds like to nest in trees.

   Bäume zählen zu den größten Lebensformen.

   Trees are one of the biggest life forms.

   Baum fällt! ― Timber! (literally, “Tree falling!”)

2. (nautical) boom

• In German, one generally says: Er sitzt auf dem Baum (literally “He’s sitting on the tree”), and accordingly: Sie klettert auf den Baum (literally “She’s climbing onto the tree”). The construction with in (as in English) is not entirely impossible, but it is rare. There is a chance that it may be misunderstood as “inside a hollow tree trunk”.

• (tree): Pflanze

• (tree): Eiche, Kastanie

Baum m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Baums or (with an article) Baum, plural Baums or Baum)

1. a surname
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) a German Jewish surname

• “Baum”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Baum” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Baum” in Duden online
• Baum on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Baum” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• Bäom, Boum (Sauerland)
• Boom (chiefly non-Westphalian)

From Middle Low German bôm.

Baum m (plural Baime or Bäme or Boime) (most of Münsterland and eastern Westphalia)

1. tree