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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans oom. Doublet of eam.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /??m/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m/

Noun

oom (plural ooms)

1. (South Africa) An older man, especially an uncle. (Frequently as a respectful form of address.) [from 19th c.]
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 73:

     He raised his glass. ‘Here's to you, Oom Ben,’ he said. ‘Give them hell.’

Anagrams

• MOO, Moo, moo, omo-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch oom, from Middle Dutch oom, from Old Dutch *?m, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?m/

Noun

oom (plural ooms, diminutive oompie)

1. uncle

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch oom, from Old Dutch *?m, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?m/
• Hyphenation: oom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

oom m (plural ooms, diminutive oompje n)

1. uncle

   Synonym: nonkel

Alternative forms

• noom
• ome

Derived terms

• heeroom
• oomschap
• oomzegger
• oudoom
• peetoom
• suikeroom

Descendants

• Afrikaans: oom
• ? Indonesian: om
• ? West Frisian: omme, omke
• ? Sranan Tongo: omu

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *?m, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”).

Noun

ôom m

1. uncle, brother of one's parent (originally specifically one's mother)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: oom
  • Afrikaans: oom
  • ? Indonesian: om
  • ? West Frisian: omme, omke
  • ? Sranan Tongo: omu
• Limburgish: oeam

Further reading

• “oom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “oom”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Wolof

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/

Noun

oom

1. knee

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English t?m (“empty”), from Proto-Germanic *t?maz (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

Adjective

toom (comparative more toom, superlative most toom)

1. (rare or dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Empty; bare.

Derived terms

• toomly

Noun

toom (plural tooms)

1. (chiefly Scottish) A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.

Verb

toom (third-person singular simple present tooms, present participle tooming, simple past and past participle toomed)

1. (rare or dialectal) To empty; teem.

Etymology 2

From Middle English toom, tome, tom, from Old Norse tóm (“vacant time, leisure”), from Proto-Germanic *t?m? (“vacant time, leisure”). Related to Old Norse tómr (“vacant, empty”).

Noun

toom (usually uncountable, plural tooms)

1. Vacant time, leisure.

References

• “toom” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• MOTO, moot, moto, moto-, tomo-

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *t?m, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz.Doublet with Dutch team, from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

toom m or n (plural tomen, diminutive toompje n)

1. bridle, rein

   Je moet die jongens echt even in toom houden - You really need to keep those boys in check

2. a flock of birds (especially ducks, geese and swans)
3. frenulum

Anagrams

• moot

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *toomi, from Proto-Uralic *?ëme.

Noun

toom (genitive toome, partitive toome)

1. bird cherry

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• toomingas