drom

See also: dröm and drøm

Albanian

Etymology

From Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).

Noun

drom ?

  1. highway

Synonyms
  • xhade

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch droom, from Proto-Germanic *þrumi, *dramjan, related to *þrumjaz (“disturbance, violence”). See also Old Saxon drom, Old English þrymm. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /drɔm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: drom
  • Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

drom m (plural drommen)

  1. flock (of people), throng, crowd

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Pronunciation
  • (Cork) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠoumˠ/
  • (Waterford) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠəumˠ/

Noun

drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)

  1. Alternative form of droim

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
drom dhrom ndrom
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English drum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [dʁom]

Noun

drom

  1. a membranophone
  2. a large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old English drēam (“joy, music, dream”), Old Frisian drām, Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.

Noun

drōm m

  1. joy, pleasure, ecstasy
    Drôm drohtines endi dagskîmon: Joy of the lord and daylight.
  2. music, song
  3. dream
    That he manno drôm ageƀen scolde: That he should give the men's dream.

Declension
Declension of drōm (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative drōm drōmos
accusative drōm drōmos
genitive drōmes drōmō
dative drōme drōmum
instrumental — —


Descendants
  • Middle Low German: drōm
    • Westphalian:
      (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum
      Lippisch: Draum
      Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem
      Westmünsterländisch: Droom
    • Plautdietsch: Droom

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).[1][2]

Noun

drom m (nominative plural droma)

  1. way,[1][3][4] road[1][3][4]

Descendants

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “drom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 77b
  2. Andrea Scala (2020), “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras; Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 101
  3. Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o drom, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 132ab
  4. Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “drom, ～a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, OCLC 1267332830, page 148a
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