haulm

English

Alternative forms

halm, hame, hawm

Etymology

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, culm, and helm (Etymology 4).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɒm/, /hɔːm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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Rhymes: -ɒm, -ɔːm

Noun

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
Synonyms: helm, straw, thatch
(countable) An individual plant stem.
(countable) Part of a harness; a hame.

Derived terms

Translations

stems of cultivated plants left after harvesting

Bulgarian: слама (bg) f (slama)
Dutch: stro (nl) n
Faroese: urt f
German: Stroh (de) n
Persian: کلور (kolur), کلش (fa) (kolaš)
Russian: соло́ма (ru) f (solóma)
Turkmen: sypal

an individual plant stem

Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܩܢܝܐ m
Bulgarian: сламка f (slamka)
Danish: halm (da) c
Dutch: halm (nl) m
Esperanto: tigo (eo)
Faroese: urt f
French: fane (fr) f
Georgian: ღერო (ka) (ɣero)
German: Halm (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: αὐλός m (aulós)
Low German: Halm m
Luxembourgish: Hallem m
Norman: vîngne f (Jersey)
Ottoman Turkish: صاپ (sap), اوزدك (özdek)
Portuguese: caule (pt) m, haste (pt) f
Russian: сте́бель (ru) m (stébelʹ), стебелёк (ru) m (stebeljók), соло́минка (ru) f (solóminka)
Turkmen: baldak (tk)

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Anagrams

Lahmu, Laḫmu