trom

trom

1. imperative of tromme

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trom f or m (plural trommen, diminutive trommetje n)

1. drum

• drum
• trommel

• Berbice Creole Dutch: trom

• mort

• IPA^(key): /tʰɾoːm/

trom f (genitive singular tramar, plural tremur)

1. edge (of a board)
2. edge (of a cliff)
3. margin (of a lake)
4. rim (of spectacles)

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠoumˠ/, /t̪ˠɾˠɑumˠ/^[1]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠuːmˠ/
• (Mayo) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠʊmˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɾˠʌmˠ/^[2]

From Old Irish trom (“heavy”),^[3] from Proto-Celtic *trummos (compare Welsh trwm).

trom (genitive singular masculine trom, genitive singular feminine troime, plural troma, comparative troime)

1. heavy
2. sad, oppressive
3. severe, grave, serious
4. sultry (of weather)

• éadrom

trom m (genitive singular trom, nominative plural troma)

1. weight
   1. a weight; burden, oppression
   2. (abstract) weight
2. bulk, preponderance
3. importance
4. blame, censure

From Old Irish trom (“elder-tree”).^[4]

trom m (genitive singular troim, nominative plural troim)

1. elder (tree, bush)

• tromán

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “trom”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

trom

1. alternative form of trome

• tromm

From Proto-Celtic *trummos (compare Welsh trwm).

• IPA^(key): /trom/

trom

1. heavy (weight)
2. heavy, severe, grievous, difficult
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^d17

     coní árim-se peccad libsi uili, ꝉ ara·tart-sa fortacht dúibsi, arnap trom fuirib for n‑oínur

     so that I may not count sin with you all, or so that I may give aid to you lest it be heavy on you by yourselves

3. (by extension) sad, sorrowful
4. great, vast, powerful, mighty

• étrum
• tromchride

• Middle Irish: trom
  • Irish: trom
  • Manx: trome
  • Scottish Gaelic: trom
• ⇒ Middle Irish: tromaigid
  • Irish: tromaigh

trom n

1. weight, heaviness, burden
2. greater part, bulk
3. severity, distress, difficulty, sorrow
4. blame, censure

• tromda

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 trom”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Galician-Portuguese trõo, from trõar, or alternatively from Latin tonus (“thunderclap; sound, tone”), probably through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin form *tronus, influenced by *tronitus < tonitrus. Compare Galician trono, Spanish trueno, Catalan tro, Occitan tron. See also tom, a possible doublet.

trom m (plural trons)

1. boom (loud, resonant sound)

   Synonym: ribombo

From Old Irish trom, from Proto-Celtic *trummos (compare Welsh trwm).

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɾɔ̃ũm/^[1]
• (North Uist) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɾoum/^[2]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰɾɔ̝um]^[3]

trom (comparative truime)

1. heavy
2. hard, difficult
3. weighty, serious
4. depressed, melancholy
5. addicted

   Tha e trom air òl. / Tha e trom air an deoch. ― He's a heavy drinker.

   Tha mi trom air an tombaca. ― I'm a heavy smoker.

6. (typography) bold

   clò trom ― bold type

7. pregnant (with child)

• In connection with "love" can precede (and lenite) the noun:

  Ghabh e trom ghaol oirre. ― He fell madly in love with her.

• (pregnant): torrach

• aotrom

• trom-laighe

• IPA^(key): /trôm/

trȍm (Cyrillic spelling тро̏м, definite trȍmī, comparative tromiji)

1. sluggish, slow

• IPA^(key): /trɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔm

trom

1. feminine singular of trwm