bom

Abbreviation of English Berom.

bom

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Berom.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Berom terms

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ɔmˀ]

bom c (singular definite bommen, plural indefinite bomme)

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

“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)

   Er werd een bom ontdekt in het treinstation. ― A bomb was discovered in the train station.

   De bommen vielen op de stad tijdens de luchtaanval. ― The bombs fell on the city during the air raid.

2. (Suriname) gas cylinder (cylindrical vessel for compressed gas)

   Synonyms: gasbom, gascylinder, gasfles

• 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

Initialism of bewust ongehuwde moeder (“deliberately unmarried mother”). First attested in 1978.^[2]

bom f (plural bommen, diminutive bommetje n)

1. single mother

• BOM

Borrowed from English bomb.

• 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 (plural bom-bom)

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 (plural bom-bom)

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 (plural bom-bom)

1. boom barrier, boom gate
2. (figuratively) harbor, harbour

   Synonym: pelabuhan

3. (figuratively) customs

   Synonym: pabean

• bum

• “bom”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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 inan (diminutive bomk)

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

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos).

bom (Jawi spelling بوم, plural bom-bom or bom²)

1. bomb

• "bom" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), 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.

Imitative.

bom

1. boom

• boum

From Proto-West Germanic *baum.

bōm m

1. tree

• Middle Dutch: bôom
  • Dutch: boom
    • Afrikaans: boom
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: bom
    • Jersey Dutch: bôm
    • Negerhollands: bom, boom
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: bom (archaic)
    • Musi: bum (“dock”)
    • 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
  • Low German: Boom
    • German Low German: Boom
  • Plautdietsch: Boom
  • → Danish: bom
  • → Finnish: puomi
  • → Gutnish: bom
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: bom
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: bom
  • → Swedish: bom

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Syllabification: bom

Borrowed from Dutch boom.^[1][2]

• bum

bom m inan

1. (gymnastics) boom (a gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits)

   Synonym: tram

2. (sailing) boom (a spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour)
3. boom (a wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment)

Onomatopoeic.

bom

1. dong (sound of a bell, clock, etc.)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bom

1. Combined form of bo + -m

• “bom”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bom”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “bom”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “bom”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bom”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 189

• bão (Caipira)
• bô (northern and central Portugal)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bõo, inherited from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonos, earlier duenos, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bónus / bônus, a later borrowing. Compare Fala and Galician bo, Spanish bueno.

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bo/

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• Rhymes: -õ
• Hyphenation: bom

bom (feminine boa, masculine plural bons, feminine plural boas, comparable, comparative melhor, superlative o melhor or ótimo or boníssimo, diminutive bonzinho, augmentative bonzão)

1. good
   1. desirable, positive, advantageous
   2. (in reference to senses) pleasant, enjoyable, (of food) tasty

      Synonyms: agradável, aprazível

      Antonyms: ruim, desagradável

      Esta brisa é boa. ― This breeze is pleasant.

   3. (of a person) kind, generous, acting morally

      Synonyms: gentil, generoso

      Antonyms: mau, mesquinho, amargo

      Ele é um homem bom. ― He is a good man.

   4. (of quantity or time) sizeable, reasonable, significant

      Synonyms: razoável, significante

      Antonyms: pequeno, insignificante

      boa parte ― significant part

bom

1. well, very well

   Bom, já é hora de ir. ― Well, it's time to go.

• “bom”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bom”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• 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/lowered or opened/closed)
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

• “bom”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “bom”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• bom in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• bom in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓɔm˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓɔm˦]

bom

1. to encourage; to provoke

   bom đếch pin mạy ― to nudge the children into climbing trees

   bom cần tò fật ― to encourage wrestling

• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[3][4] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

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

Borrowed from French bombe.

(classifier quả, trái) bom

1. bomb

   Synonym: trái phá (obsolete)

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 (genitive boma, plural boms)

1. bone

• bäkabom (“backbone”)
• bomem
• fitabom

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

• “bom”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

Borrowed from English bomb.

bom m or f (plural bomiau)

1. bomb
2. (slang) bomb, mint, killing (large amount of money)

• bom amser (“time bomb”)
• bomio (“bomb”, verb)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bom”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Borrowed from English bomb.

• IPA^(key): [bóm]
• Hyphenation: bom

bóm

1. bomb

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 66