soom

See also: Soom and -soom

Afar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoːm/ [ˈsoːm]
  • Hyphenation: soom

Noun

sóom m 

  1. fast, fasting

Declension

Declension of sóom
absolutive sóom
predicative sóomu
subjective sóom
genitive sóom
Postpositioned forms
l-case sóomul
k-case sóomuk
t-case sóomut
h-case sóomuh

References

  • Enid M. Parker (2006) English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page V
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 62

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zoom.

Pronunciation

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Noun

soom (plural some)

  1. seam

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.

Noun

sôom m

  1. seam (of fabric)
  2. edge, border in general

Inflection

Strong masculine noun
singular plural
nominative sôom sôme
accusative sôom sôme
genitive sôoms sôme
dative sôme sômen

Descendants

  • Dutch: zoom

Further reading

  • “soom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “soom (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
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