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English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.

Noun

soam (plural soams)

1. A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

2. (mining) A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
3. A horse-lead.

Anagrams

• -omas, Amos, MOAS, MOAs, Samo, SoMa, Soma, maos, moas, omas, soma

Portuguese

Verb

soam

1. Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês^?) present indicative of soar

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?so?m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??m?/
• Hyphenation: so?ma

Etymology 1

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma, “body”).

Noun

soma (plural somas or somata)

1. (anatomy) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
2. The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:body

3. (cytology) The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.

Derived terms

Related terms

• prosoma
• somato-
• -some

Translations

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit ??? (sóma), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *sáwmas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas, from *su-. Doublet of haoma.

Noun

soma (uncountable)

1. (hinduism) A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and continuing Hindu culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant.
   • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, p. 82:

     Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.

2. (by extension) Any kind of intoxicating drug.

Alternative forms

• Soma

Related terms

• haoma

Anagrams

• -omas, Amos, MOAS, MOAs, Samo, maos, moas, omas, soam

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of Somaliër.

Noun

soma ? (plural soma's, diminutive somaatje n)

1. (sometimes offensive, slang) a Somalian.

Fijian

Adverb

soma

1. often, frequently

   Synonym: wasoma

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soma, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *s?maz, *s?miz (“suitable”). Related to Karelian šoma, Livvi ?oma, Ludian ?oma and Veps tšoma (with irregular initial consonants due to the affectionate nature of the word).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?som?/, [?s?o?m?]
• Rhymes: -om?
• Syllabification: so?ma

Adjective

soma (comparative somempi, superlative somin)

1. pretty
2. cute, sweet

Declension

Derived terms

• somasti

Anagrams

• Asmo, mosa, osma

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese soma (“top”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin summa (“top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?som?]

Noun

soma f (plural somas)

1. ridge (formed besides a furrow)

   Synonyms: lombeiro, márdea, mesa, sorrello

References

• “soma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “soma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “soma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “soma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “soma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin sauma, from alteration of Latin sagma, from Ancient Greek ????? (ságma). Compare the doublet salma (“corpse”). Cognate to French somme (“packsaddle”).

Noun

soma f (plural some)

1. the load borne by a pack animal
2. the measure of the capacity of a given animal to bear a load
3. (poetic) a weight

Derived terms

• animale da soma
• bestia da soma
• someggiare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma).

Noun

soma m (plural somi)

1. (medicine) soma

Derived terms

• somatico
• somite

Anagrams

• Amos

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (sôma).

Noun

soma n

1. body

Japanese

Romanization

soma

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old East Slavic ???? (suma) (compare Russian ????? (sumá)), itself borrowed (via Polish) from Old High German soum (“burden”) (compare German Saum), from Ancient Greek ????? (ságma) (whence also Latin sagma, sauma (“burden saddle, burden”)). The borrowing happened in the 13th century, when Old East Slavic ? was still pronounced as [o?]. The word soma is first attested in 17th-century dictionaries with meanings such as “bread sack”, “bag”, “travel bag”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s??ma]

Noun

soma f (4th declension)

1. bag, pack (fabric, leather, etc. object with straps or handles, used for carrying small objects, groceries, etc.)

2. (biology, anatomy) pouch (skin fold in marsupials to keep a newborn baby)

Declension

Derived terms

• ce?asoma
• mugursoma
• rokassoma

See also

• maiss

Etymology 2

See soms.

Noun

soma m

1. genitive singular form of soms

References

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese soma, from Latin summa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: so?ma

Noun

soma f (plural somas)

1. (arithmetic) sum (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)
2. sum (quantity of money)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma, “body”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?so.m?/
• Hyphenation: so?ma

Noun

soma m (plural somas)

1. (anatomy, cytology) soma

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??? (sóma), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma, from Proto-Indo-European *sew(h)-.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s?.m?/
• Hyphenation: so?ma

Noun

soma m (plural somas)

1. (religion) soma

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: so?ma

Verb

soma

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of somar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of somar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sommer.

Verb

a soma (third-person singular present someaz?, past participle somat) 1st conj.

1. to summon

Conjugation

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-soma (infinitive gusoma, perfective -somye)

1. to read

Swahili

Etymology

Of Bantu origin.

Pronunciation

Verb

-soma (infinitive kusoma)

1. to read
2. to study

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -somea
  • Causative: -somesha (“make read, educate”)
  • Passive: -somwa
  • Stative: -someka (“be legible”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • msoma (“reader”)
  • msomaji (“reader”)
  • somo (“lesson”)

Swazi

Verb

-sóma

1. to court, to flirt, to date

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Turkish

Noun

soma

1. dative singular of som