bôm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bom"

Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boŋ/

Adjective

bôm (adverb bêm)

  1. good
    bôm-sonogoodnight
    más bômbetter (literally, “more good”)
    bôm caragood-looking (literally, “good face”)
    bôm coraçámkind-hearted, generous person (literally, “good heart”)
    Êle têm bôm paga
    He has a good salary

Usage notes

  • bôm coraçám may be a calque of Cantonese 好心 (hou2 sam1).
  • is very rarely used standalone,and mostly only in interjections such as bô-tarde.

Derived terms

References

Tày

Etymology

Compare bâm.

Pronunciation

Noun

bôm (𱑼)

  1. tray
    tọn bômto clean a tray
    bôm chètea tray
    bôm khẩu cẩu cầna tray with nine eaters
    cáy tốc bôm khẩu slan
    to be unexpectedly lucky
    (literally, “a chicken falls into a rice tray”)

Derived terms

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pomme; the phoneme /p/ is changed into /ɓ/ as it is not a native onset consonant.

Noun

(classifier trái, quả, cây) bôm

  1. (regional) apple
    Synonyms: táo tây, táo, (dated) bom

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bôm

  1. plant-derived tar

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Combining form

bôm

  1. reduplicant of bốp, only used in bôm bốp

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boːm/

Verb

bôm

  1. first-person plural present subjunctive of bod

Mutation

Mutated forms of bôm
radical soft nasal aspirate
bôm fôm môm unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.