stroom

• IPA^(key): /stroːm/

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• Hyphenation: stroom
• Rhymes: -oːm

From Middle Dutch strôom, from Old Dutch *strōm, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Cognate with stream.

stroom m (plural stromen, diminutive stroompje n)

1. a flow, current or flush, as of moving water or other liquid
2. a major river, especially one leading to the sea or ocean

   Antwerpen, stad aan de stroom — Antwerp, city on the river Scheldt

3. a smaller stream

   Synonym: beek

4. an electrical current
5. (by extension, used absolutely) electricity

   Synonym: elektriciteit

• Berbice Creole Dutch: strom
• Negerhollands: stroom, strom
• → Aukan: sitolomu
• → Caribbean Javanese: setrum
• → Indonesian: setrum
• → Indonesian: arus (semantic loan)
• → Papiamentu: strom, stroom
• → Sranan Tongo: strowm

• spanning

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stroom

1. inflection of stromen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• smoort

From Old Dutch *strōm, from Proto-West Germanic *straum.

strôom m or n

1. A stream.

• strômen

• Dutch: stroom
  • Afrikaans: stroom
• Limburgish: stroum

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