Qom
See also: qom
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Iranian Persian قم (qom), from Classical Persian قم (qum).
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Qom
- A city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning.
- A county of Iran, around the city.
- A province of Iran.
Translations
city, county, and province in Iran
See also
provinces of Iranedit
- Alborz
- Ardabil
- Bushehr
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
- East Azerbaijan
- Fars
- Gilan
- Golestan
- Hamadan
- Hormozgan
- Ilam
- Isfahan
- Kerman
- Kermanshah
- Khuzestan
- Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
- Kurdistan
- Lorestan
- Markazi
- Mazandaran
- North Khorasan
- Qazvin
- Qom
- Razavi Khorasan
- Semnan
- Sistan and Baluchestan
- South Khorasan
- Tehran
- West Azerbaijan
- Yazd
- Zanjan
Etymology 2
Noun
Qom pl (plural only)
- Synonym of Toba (“a people of Argentina”).
Anagrams
Toba
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Qom
- the Toba people
References
- María Belén Carpio, Marisa Censabella (2012) “Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba”, in Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, editors, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (in Toba), →ISBN