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English

Etymology

Abbreviation of promenade.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p??m/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

prom (plural proms)

1. (Britain) a promenade concert
2. (Britain, abbreviation) promenade
3. (US) a formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions, e.g. near the end of the academic year

Derived terms

• high school prom / high-school prom / highschool prom
• prom king / prom queen
• promposal

Translations

Anagrams

• romp

Latvian

Adverb

prom

1. away
2. off

Synonyms

• proj?m

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *porm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?m/

Noun

prom m inan

1. ferry
2. (astronautics) shuttle

Declension

Further reading

• prom in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• prom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Volapük

Noun

prom (nominative plural proms)

1. promise

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prom/

Noun

prom c (plural prommen, diminutive promke)

1. (Clay) plum

Alternative forms

• prûm (Wood)

Further reading

• “prom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Adjective

rom (not comparable)

1. (proofreading) Abbreviation of roman.

Anagrams

• MOR, MRO, Mor, Mor., O/RM, OMR, ORM, RMO

Aghu Tharrnggala

Noun

rom

1. belly

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?rom/

Etymology 1

From Latin rhombus (“flatfish”).

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. brill (Scophthalmus rhombus).

   Synonym: rèmol

Etymology 2

From English rum.

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. rum

Further reading

• “rom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cornish

Noun

rom m (plural romys)

1. room (in a house)

   Synonym: stevel

Derived terms

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/, [??m?]

Noun

rom c (singular definite rommen, not used in plural form)

1. rum

Noun

rom c (singular definite rommen or rom'en, plural indefinite rommer or rom'er)

1. ROM, read-only memory

Inflection

French

Adjective

rom (plural roms)

1. Roma

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from romlik, created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rom]
• Hyphenation: rom
• Rhymes: -om

Noun

rom (plural romok)

1. ruin

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• rom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Kuku-Thaypan

Noun

rom

1. belly

References

• Barry Alpher, Connecting Thaypanic, in Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, edited by Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English rum

Noun

rom m (definite singular rommen)

1. rum (alcoholic beverage)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rúm

Noun

rom n (definite singular rommet, indefinite plural rom, definite plural romma or rommene)

1. room (space, part of a building)
2. space (room)
3. space or outer space (void outside the earth's atmosphere)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

rom

1. imperative of romme

References

• “rom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m?/

Etymology 1

From English rum

Noun

rom m (definite singular rommen)

1. rum (alcoholic beverage)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rúm. Akin to English room.

Noun

rom n (definite singular rommet, indefinite plural rom, definite plural romma)

1. room (space, part of a building)
2. space (room)
3. space or outer space (void outside the earth's atmosphere)

Derived terms

References

• “rom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Adjective

rom (plural rom, comparable)

1. Romani (of or relating to the Roma people)

   Synonyms: cigano, roma

Noun

rom m (plural rons or roms)

1. a member of the Romani people

Romani

Noun

rom m (plural roma)

1. Alternative form of rrom (“Romani man; husband”)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rom]

Etymology 1

From Romani rom.

Noun

rom m (plural romi, feminine equivalent rom?)

1. a Romani person, a Rom

   Synonym: (offensive) ?igan

Declension

Etymology 2

From French rhum, German Rum.

Noun

rom n (plural romuri)

1. rum

Declension

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin r?mus.

Alternative forms

• ram (Puter)

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) branch (of tree, river, etc.)

   Synonym: (Puter) manzina

2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader, education) subject

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• ram (Puter)
• rama (Sursilvan)

Noun

rom m (plural roms)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frame, framework

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• ram (Puter)

Noun

rom f (plural roms)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) knot, gnarl

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish rughn, romn, from Old Norse hrogn, from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“frogspawn”); cognate with Danish and Norwegian rogn, Icelandic hrogn, German Rogen, and English roe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/
• IPA^(key): /r?m/
  • Homophone: Rom
• Rhymes: -?m, -?m

Noun

rom c

1. roe (egg of fish)

   Antonym: mjölke

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

Cognate with Danish rom, Dutch, German, and English rum, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?m/
• IPA^(key): /r?m/
  • Homophone: Rom
• Rhymes: -?m, -?m

Noun

rom c

1. rum (beverage)

   Synonym: sockerrörsbrännvin

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?m/
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

rom c

1. a Romani person

   Synonyms: resande, tattare, zigenare

Declension

Related terms

References

• rom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• mor, orm

Turkish

Noun

rom

1. rum

Volapük

Noun

rom

1. rum

Welsh Romani

Etymology

From Romani rrom.

Noun

rom m

1. husband

   Antonym: romni

Derived terms

References

• “rom” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

West Frisian

Noun

rom n (plural [please provide])

1. pride

   Synonym: grutskens

References

• “rom (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rœ?m?], [róm?], [r??m?]

  Rhymes: -??m?

Etymology

From Old Norse *rumm = rúm. Akin to English room.

Noun

rom n (definite singular rommä, dative rommän, indefinite plural rom, definite plural romma, dative rommom)

1. room, space, place

Derived terms