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Definitions and meaning of som

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Translingual

Symbol

som

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Somali.

English

Etymology 1

From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]").

Alternative forms

  • sum, soum

Noun

som (plural soms)

  1. The currency of Uzbekistan.
  2. The currency of Kyrgyzstan.
Translations

Etymology 2

Pronoun

som

  1. Obsolete spelling of some.

Determiner

som

  1. Obsolete spelling of some.

Etymology 3

Noun

som (plural soms)

  1. Alternative form of somm (“sommelier”).

See also

  • som tam / som tum

Anagrams

  • MOS, MOs, OMS, OMs, SMO, mos, mos', oms, osm

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsom]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin summus.

Adjective

som (feminine soma, masculine plural soms, feminine plural somes)

  1. shallow

Etymology 2

Verb

som

  1. first-person plural present indicative of ser
  2. first-person plural present indicative of ésser

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *somъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsom]

Noun

som m anim

  1. archaic form of sumec

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse som, sem (“as, like”), cognate with Norwegian som, Swedish som. Probably a weakened form of Proto-Germanic *samą, *samô (“same, in the same way”), compare Old High German sama, samo, sam (“so, likewise”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔm/, [sʌm]

Conjunction

som

  1. as, like (introduces comparisons, both noun phrases and dependent clauses)
    Synonym: ligesom
    fuld som en allike
    drunk as a jackdaw
  2. as (introduces a noun phrase that is an adjunct, or non-obligatory argument)
    Synonyms: i egenskab af, qua, værende
  3. such as (introduces an example)
    Synonyms: for eksempel, såsom
    pattedyr som hunde og katte
    mammals such as dogs and cats
  4. as (introduces a temporal adverbial clause)
    Synonyms: da, idet
  5. as, because (introduces a causal adverbial clause)
    Synonyms: da, eftersom
  6. how (introduces an exclamative independent clause)
    Synonym: hvor

Pronoun

som

  1. (relative) who, which, that (introduces relative clauses)
    Synonyms: der, hvilken

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch somme, borrowed from Old French somme, from Latin summa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔm/
  • Hyphenation: som
  • Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

som f (plural sommen, diminutive sommetje n)

  1. sum
  2. (mathematics) problem
    Ik moet dertig sommen maken voor de wiskundeles van morgen. ― I have to solve thirty problems for tomorrow's maths class.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: sòm, som

References

  • van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “som1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Anagrams

  • mos

Galician

Verb

som

  1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of ser

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, compare Turkmen çüm (“cornel”), Kumyk чум (çum, “berry”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃom]
  • Hyphenation: som
  • Rhymes: -om

Noun

som (plural somok)

  1. cornel

Declension

Further reading

  • som in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • mos

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zoom (“hem; edge, border”), from Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɔm]
  • Hyphenation: som
  • Rhymes: -sɔm, -ɔm, -m

Noun

som (plural som-som)

  1. (sewing, colloquial) seam (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
    Synonyms: kelim, pelipit

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “som” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔm/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sòmъ; cognate with Russian сом (som), Old Polish som, Old Czech som, Polabian såm.

Noun

som m anim

  1. catfish (fish of the order Siluriformes)
Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “som”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “som”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *esmь.

Verb

som

  1. first-person singular present of byś

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /som/

Determiner

som

  1. some

Inflection

Descendants

  • Dutch: som, saom (dialectal)
  • Limburgish: zóm

Further reading

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • somme, summe
  • zome (Kent)

Etymology

From Old English sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sum/

Pronoun

som

  1. some

Adjective

som

  1. some

Descendants

  • English: some
  • Scots: sum, some
  • Yola: zim, zum

References

  • “sǒm, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “sǒm, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔm/

Conjunction

som

  1. as; similar to, in the same way that

Derived terms

  • ettersom

Pronoun

som

  1. (reflexive pronoun) who, which

Preposition

som

  1. as; to the same extent or degree that

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔmː/

Conjunction

som

  1. as
Derived terms
  • ettersom

Pronoun

som

  1. (reflexive pronoun) who, which, that

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sumr. Akin to English some.

Alternative forms

  • sum (now nonstandard)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʊmː/

Pronoun

som m (feminine som, neuter somt, plural somme)

  1. some

References

  • “som” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sōmu, from Proto-Germanic *sōmō, related to *sōmiz (“seemly”). Related to Old Norse sǿmr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soːm/

Noun

sōm f

  1. agreement, concord
  2. reconciliation, a setting aside of differences
  3. an meeting for agreement, arrangement of dispute

Usage notes

Often found in collocation with sibb (“peace”).

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

Related terms

  • sēman
  • ġesēman

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sóm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese son (probably influenced by or possibly borrowed from Old Occitan son), from Latin sonus. Alternatively, regressively derived from the verb soar. Compare Galician and Spanish son.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -õ
  • Homophone: são (Portugal, dialectal)
  • Hyphenation: som

Noun

som m (plural sons)

  1. sound (sensation perceived by the ear)
  2. (informal) music (melodic and rhythmic sounds made as art)
    Synonym: música
  3. (informal) an audio device, such as a stereo
    Synonym: equipamento de som

Derived terms

  • barreira do som
  • sonzeira
  • sonzinho (diminutive)
  • sonzão (augmentative)

Related terms

See also

  • barulho
  • ruído

Romanian

Noun

som m (plural somi)

  1. obsolete form of sumă

Declension

References

  • som in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sôm/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *somъ.

Noun

sȍm m (Cyrillic spelling со̏м)

  1. catfish
Declension

Etymology 2

The origins of this term are unclear. Possibly because som (catfish) is a big fish. Others believe it is due to the 1000 dinar banknotes of 1955, on which the person depicted appears to have two fish eyes (instead of welding goggles) on his head.

Noun

sȍm m (Cyrillic spelling со̏м)

  1. (colloquial) grand (a thousand of something, especially but not only money)
    dva soma ― two grand

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *esmь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɔm/

Verb

som

  1. first-person singular present of byť

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • (Obsolete typography) ſom

Etymology

From Old Swedish som or sum, in Runic inscriptions also sim, same as Icelandic sem, from Old Norse sem.

Also related to the prefix sam- (“co-, common, together”) and suffix -sam (“-some, -like”). Still in the Poetic Edda, the Icelandic sem is only used as a comparative particle, e.g. Hávamál 23 allt er víl sem var (And his woe is just as it was). With time it has displaced other relative conjunctions (es, er). Its use as a pronoun is of a later date.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔm/

Conjunction

som

  1. as, like; similar to
  2. as; in the same way that

Derived terms

  • lugn som en filbunke
  • som man bäddar får man ligga

Pronoun

som

  1. (relative) who, which, that
  2. as; to the same extent or degree that

References

  • som in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • Mos., mos

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [som]

Verb

som

  1. (stative) to be murky, turbid

Conjugation

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *som (“pure, solid”).

Adjective

som

  1. solid
    Synonym: katı
  2. pure
    Synonyms: salt, arı, katkısız, katışıksız
  3. fine

Derived terms

  • somut

Alternative forms

  • somon

Etymology

From French saumon.

Noun

som (definite accusative somu, plural somlar)

  1. salmon

Declension

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *soom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /som˧˩/

Numeral

sòm

  1. ten

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 48

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