oma

Borrowed from German Oma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊmə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -oʊmə

oma (plural omas)

1. (among people of German ancestry) Grandmother, grandma.

• baba

• MoA, Amo., MAO, moa, MOA, Amo, AMO, mao, AOM, Mao

From om +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈo.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈo.ma]

oma f (plural omes)

1. wych elm, Scots elm

• “oma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Likely stemming from grootma, a word that young children often mispronounce. Cognate to German Oma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.maː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: oma

oma f (plural oma's, diminutive omaatje n)

1. grandma, granny, nan

   Synonym: grootmoeder

2. (colloquial) any old woman

• → Indonesian: oma, omah
• → Papiamentu: oma
• → Sranan Tongo: oma

From Proto-Finnic *oma. Cognate to Finnish oma, Livonian umm, Votic õma and Northern Sami oapmi. Compare also Udmurt умой (umoj, “good, fitting, right”) and Komi-Zyrian эм (em, “exists”). Possibly an old derivation from the copula - olema.

oma (indeclinable)

1. own
2. (military) friendly

Indeclinable.

oma (genitive oma, partitive oma)

1. (military, usually in the plural) a friendly

Declension of oma (ÕS type 17i/pesa, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		oma	omad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	oma
genitive			omade
partitive		oma	omi omasid
illative		omma omasse	omadesse omisse
inessive		omas	omades omis
elative		omast	omadest omist
allative		omale	omadele omile
adessive		omal	omadel omil
ablative		omalt	omadelt omilt
translative		omaks	omadeks omiks
terminative		omani	omadeni
essive		omana	omadena
abessive		omata	omadeta
comitative		omaga	omadega

From Proto-Finnic *oma. Cognate to Estonian oma, Livonian umm, Votic õma and Northern Sami oapmi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈomɑ/, [ˈo̞mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -omɑ
• Syllabification^(key): o‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): oma

oma (comparative omempi, superlative omin)

1. own (that belongs to one)
2. (military) friendly (on one's own side)

oma

1. (military, usually in the plural) friendly (someone on the same side)

   Älä ammu, ne ovat omia.

   Don't shoot, they are friendlies.

• ystävyysottelu

• “oma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• moa

• IPA^(key): /oma/

oma

1. lobster

From Proto-Finnic *oma. Cognates include Finnish oma and Estonian oma.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈomɑ/, [ˈo̞mɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈomɑ/, [ˈo̞mɑ]
• Rhymes: -omɑ
• Hyphenation: o‧ma

oma (not comparable)

1. own
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Territorialisest, oman elopaikan poolest, iƶorat ollaa soomalaisiin, venäläisiin, virolaisiin ja vadjalaisiin naapurinna.

     Territorially, according to [their] own place of residence, Ingrians are neighbours to Finns, Russians, Estonians and Votes.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “Omal maal”, performed by Arvo Survo:

     Omal maal, omal maal, omal kotimaal. Kual rauhan saan syämehein miä sinne kaihoon ain!

     In [my] own country, in [my] own country, in [my] own homeland. Where I'll get peace in my heart I will always long [to be] there!

   • 2021, Kati Kallio, Riho Grünthal, Lasi Saressalo, quoting Olga Filatova, Inkerikot, setot ja vatjalaiset (overall work in Finnish), →ISBN, page 40:

     Ennee sottaa mittää sitä vennään keeltä meil ei olt - kaik oli oma keeli!

     Before the war we didn't have any Russian language - everything was our own language!

Declension of oma (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	oma	omat
genitive	oman	ommiin
partitive	ommaa	ommia
illative	ommaa	ommii
inessive	omas	omis
elative	omast	omist
allative	omalle	omille
adessive	omal	omil
ablative	omalt	omilt
translative	omaks	omiks
essive	omanna, ommaan	ominna, ommiin
exessive1)	omant	omint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 362

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma.

oma

1. mountainside garden

oma

1. own

From Proto-Cariban *ôtema; compare Apalaí osema, Trió ëema, Wayana ësema, Waiwai esama, Akawaio e'ma, Macushi ema, Pemon ema, Ye'kwana ööma.

• IPA^(key): [oːma]

óma (possessed omary)

1. road, path
2. line

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[4], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 328
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “oma”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 335; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[5], Paris, 1956, page 328

oma

1. (Faia) tongue

• abla (Kirikiri)

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma.

oma

1. garden

• Rina, A. Dj., Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) “oma”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 75

oma f (plural omans)

1. mother

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

-óma

1. to become dry

Borrowed from Old East Slavic умъ (umŭ, “mind, intellect”) (cf. Russian ум (um, “mind, intellect, wit”)), cognate with Lithuanian aumuõ (“understanding, notion, intellect”), genitive aumeñs. This word was borrowed into Latvian before the 13th century, while Old East Slavic у was still close to [o] in pronunciation. It conserved its original meaning (“mind,” “understanding”) well into the 19th century; the modern sense was an innovation introduced by by Atis Kronvalds.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [uōma]

oma f (4th declension)

1. mood (mental or emotional state)

   būt labā omā ― to be in a good mood

   būt priecīgā omā ― to be in a cheerful mood

   viņš šodien ir sliktā omā ― he is in a bad mood today

• omulīgs, omulīgums
• omulība

oma

1. own

oma

1. run, race, flee, escape, move quickly, run away

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quma.

oma

1. farm

From Western Bukidnon Manobo uma.

oma

1. to arrive

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔma]
• Hyphenation: o‧ma

Cognates include Minica Huitoto oma and Nüpode Huitoto oma.

oma

1. brother-in-law (to a female)

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

oma

1. tail

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[6] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 53
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[7], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 41

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

-óma

1. to become dry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

oma

1. to be dry

From German Oma (“grandma”).

• Hyphenation: o‧ma

oma f (plural omas)

1. (South Brazil, familiar) grandma

   Synonym: avó

   Antonym: opa

• “oma”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025

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

oma

1. field

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

oma

1. to be dry

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

-ôma

1. to become dry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Dutch oma.

oma

1. grandmother

• SIL International, Sranan Tongo – English Dictionary

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

-oma

1. to become dry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

oma

1. to be dry

oma

1. (genitive singular of om) "his"
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 21:

     Ma lesag oma, üdunom ädelo atosi.

     According to his statement, he would have done it yesterday.

• omik

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.ma/

oma

1. a child

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[8], Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

-ôma

1. to become dry

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-jʊ́ma.

-ôma

1. to become dry
2. to become thirsty

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “oma”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “oma (6.3)”