Boom

Boom

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Boudewijn Karel Boom (1903-1980).

• Author query of the International Plant Names Index

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• IPA^(key): /boʊm/
• Rhymes: -oʊm

Boom

1. A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.

• MOBO, mobo, moob

• Baum, Boum (Kölsch, Westerwald)
• Baam (southern Moselle Franconian)

Inherited from Middle High German boum.

• IPA^(key): /boːm/ (Ripuarian, northwestern Moselle Franconian)
• IPA^(key): /bɔːm/ (eastern Moselle Franconian)

Boom m (plural Bööm or Beem or Bääm, diminutive Böömche or Beemche or Bäämche)

1. (most dialects) tree

   Met sengem neue Kleedche mot it och op dä Boom klemme!

   But she simply had to climb on that tree in her new dress!

• The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian. The forms with -e- are used in Moselle Franconian dialects that pronounce /oː/ in the singular; those with -ä- are used in dialects that pronounce /ɔː/.

• Hunsrik: Baam
• Luxembourgish: Bam
• Transylvanian Saxon: bum

The surname is from boom (“tree”).

• IPA^(key): /boːm/, (Southern Dutch) [boːm]

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• Hyphenation: Boom
• Rhymes: -oːm

Boom n

2. a Belgian town and municipality in the Flemish province of Antwerp
3. a surname

• Bomenaar (demonym)

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Boom”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 193.

• Baam

From Middle High German and Old High German boum.

Boom

1. (Upper Saxon) tree

Borrowed from English boom.

• IPA^(key): /buːm/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Boom m (strong, genitive Booms, plural Booms)

1. (economics) boom

   Synonym: Aufschwung

• “Boom” in Duden online
• “Boom”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

From Boum, with regular Ripuarian-Limburgish monophthongisation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːm/
• Rhymes: -oːm

Boom m (plural Bööm, diminutive Böömke) (German-based spelling)

1. Southeast Limburgish form of Boum

• Bom (variant spelling)
• Baum (most of Münsterland and eastern Westphalia)
• Bäom, Boum (Sauerland)

From Middle Low German bôm, from Old Saxon bōm, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz. Akin to Dutch boom, Low German Baum, German Baum, West Frisian beam, English beam.

Boom m (plural Bööm or Böme) (chiefly non-Westphalian dialects of German Low German)

1. tree

• Plant

• Farn
• Struuk

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

• buum (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring)

From Old Frisian bām. Cognates include West Frisian beam, Dutch boom and German Baum.

Boom m (plural Boomer)

1. (Sylt) tree

   en hoog Boom ― a tall tree

From Middle Low German bôm, from Old Saxon bōm.

Boom m (plural Beem)

1. tree
   • 2003, De Bibel, Matäus (Matthew) 7:17:

     Jrod soo drajcht een gooda Boom goode Frucht un een schlajchta Boom schlajchte Frucht.

     Likewise, a good tree bears good fruit, and a bad tree bears bad fruit.

• Boon (bean)
• Bloom (flower)
• Holt (wood)
• Woolt (woods, forest)
• Däa (door)
• Hoff
• Hus
• Staul
• Stap
• Wota

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words
• Herman Rempel's Plautdietsch Dictionary

From Old Frisian bām, from Proto-West Germanic *baum. Cognates include West Frisian beam and German Baum.

• IPA^(key): /boːm/
• Hyphenation: Boom
• Rhymes: -oːm

Boom m (plural Bome)

1. tree

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “Boom”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN