drom

See also: dröm and drøm

Albanian

Etymology

From Greek δρόμος (drómos, road).

Noun

drom ?

  1. highway

Synonyms

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch droom, from Proto-Germanic *þrumi, *dramjan, related to *þrumjaz (disturbance, violence). See also Old Saxon drom, Old English þrymm. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /drɔm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: drom
  • Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

drom m (plural drommen)

  1. flock (of people), throng, crowd

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: drom

Further reading

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Cork) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠoumˠ/
  • (Waterford) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠəumˠ/

Noun

drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)

  1. alternative form of droim

Mutation

Mutated forms of drom
radical lenition eclipsis
drom dhrom ndrom

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English drum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dɰom]

Noun

drom

  1. a membranophone
  2. a large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old English drēam (joy, music, dream), Old Frisian drām, Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.

Noun

drōm m

  1. joy, pleasure, ecstasy
    Drôm drohtines endi dagskīmon
    Joy of the lord and daylight
  2. music, song
  3. dream
    That he manno drôm ageƀen scolde
    That he should give the men's dream

Declension

drōm (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative drōm drōmos
accusative drōm drōmos
genitive drōmes drōmō
dative drōme drōmum
instrumental

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: drôm
    • Low German: Droom
      • Westphalian:
        Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum The template Template:rfc-sense does not use the parameter(s):
        2=is this Ravensbergisch or another Lippisch term? what's the source? — Lippisch (Korl Biegemann, Wilhelm Oesterhaus, [https://www.kinder-lippe.de/lippisch-platt/plattdeutsches-lexikon.html kinder-lippe.de]) has "Draum", see below.
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        (Can we clean up(+) this sense?)
        Lippisch: Draum
        Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem
        Westmünsterländisch: Droom
    • Plautdietsch: Droom

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔkˈtɔ.rɔm/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrɔm

Noun

drom m pers

  1. dative plural of dr

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, road).[1][2]

Noun

drom m (nominative plural droma)

  1. way,[1][3][4] road[1][3][4]

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “drom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 77b
  2. ^ Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 101
  3. 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o drom, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 132ab
  4. 4.0 4.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “drom, ~a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148a