bôm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bom"
Macanese
Alternative forms
- bóm, bô
Etymology
From Portuguese bom.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boŋ/
Adjective
bôm (adverb bêm)
- good
- bôm-sono ― goodnight
- más bôm ― better (literally, “more good”)
- bôm cara ― good-looking (literally, “good face”)
- bôm coraçám ― kind-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).
- bô is very rarely used standalone,and mostly only in interjections such as bô-tarde.
Derived terms
References
Tày
Etymology
Compare bâm.
Pronunciation
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ɓom˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [ɓom˦]
Noun
bôm (𱑼)
- tray
- tọn bôm ― to clean a tray
- bôm chè ― tea tray
- bôm khẩu cẩu cần ― a tray with nine eaters
- cáy tốc bôm khẩu slan
- to be unexpectedly lucky
- (literally, “a chicken falls into a rice tray”)
Derived terms
- bôm toòng
- củ bôm
- lọt bôm
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
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bôm
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Combining form
bôm
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boːm/
Verb
bôm
- first-person plural present subjunctive of bod