om

See also Appendix:Variations of "om", and Appendix:ISO 639-1 language codes

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• aum

Etymology

From Sanskrit ॐ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɒm/, /əʊm/

Noun

om (plural oms)

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism) A sacred, mystical syllable used in prayer and meditation.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 800:

     In fact it sounded exactly like the voice of Livia, her vanished sister, and, like her, it was intoning the Aum just as she used once to do at the beginning of her yoga sessions.

   • 2001, Hazel Curry, The Guardian, 20 Oct 2001:

     Om is pronounced "a-a-o-o-u-u-m-m" and is repeated slowly for as long as possible.

Translations

sacred syllable

• Chinese: 吽
• Indonesian: aum (id)

• Malay: ong (ms)
• Sanskrit: ॐ (IAST oṃ)
• Tibetan: ༀ

Anagrams

• mo , Mo, m/o, mo', MO, m.o.

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin homō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [om]

Noun

om m (plural oaminj)

1. man, person

See also

• bãrbat

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ulmus.

Noun

om m (plural oms)

1. elm

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Chickasaw

Adjective

om

1. on

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Danish

Preposition

om

1. about

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ombe, omme, from Old Dutch umbi, umbe, from Proto-Germanic *umbi.

Preposition

om

1. around, about
2. at (a time)

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of om

preposition	om
postpositional adv.	om
+ het (it)	erom
+ dit (this)	hierom
+ dat (that)	daarom
+ wat (what)	waarom
+ iets (something)	ergens om
+ niets (nothing)	nergens om
+ alles (everything)	overal om

Adverb

om

1. around, about
2. around, over (to another state)

   Hij zette de schakelaar om.

   He turned the switch over.

3. over, from an upright to a horizontal position (as in "fall over")

Derived terms

• andersom
• omheen
• omtrek
• omweg

Conjunction

om

1. (om te) in order to

Adjective

om (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. convinced, pursuaded

   De rechter is om.

   The judge has been pursuaded.

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Esperanto

Noun

om (plural om-oj, accusative singular om-on, accusative plural om-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/‎be, co/‎ce, ĉo/‎ĉa, do/‎de, e, fo/‎ef, go/‎ge, ĝo/‎ĝe, ho/‎ha, ĥo/‎ĥi, i, jo/‎je, ĵo/‎ĵi, ko/‎ka, lo/‎el, mo/‎om, no/‎en, o, po/‎pa, ro/‎ar, so/‎es, ŝo/‎eŝ, to/‎ta, u, ŭo/‎eŭ, vo/‎vi, zo/‎ze ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

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Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /om/

Preposition

om

1. Alternative form of omme.

Adverb

om

1. Alternative form of omme.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Preposition

om

1. around
2. in (after a period of time)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse um.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʊm/ (example of pronunciation)

Preposition

om

1. around
2. in (after a period of time)

References

• “om” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Old French

Etymology

Latin homo.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔm/

Noun

om m (oblique plural oms, nominative singular oms, nominative plural om)

1. Alternative form of hom.

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Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• ome
• omne

Etymology

Latin homo

Noun

om m (oblique plural oms, nominative singular oms, nominative plural om)

1. man (male adult human being)

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Polish

Alternative forms

• ohm

Etymology

Named after the German physicist Georg Ohm.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔm/

Noun

om m

1. ohm

Declension

    declension of om

	singular	plural
nominative	om	omy
genitive	oma	omów
dative	omowi	omom
accusative	om	omy
instrumental	omem	omami
locative	omie	omach
vocative	omie	omy

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [om]

Etymology 1

From Latin homō.
Compare Catalan home, Esperanto homo, French homme, Interlingua homine, Italian uomo, Portuguese homem, Sardinian ómine, Spanish hombre.

Noun

om m (plural oameni)

1. man, e.g. male
2. (regardless of gender) human being

Declension

declension of om

	singular		plural
gender m	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un om	omul	niște oameni	oamenii
genitive/dative	unui om	omului	unor oameni	oamenilor

Synonyms

• bărbat
• (o) ființă umană
• persoană

Antonyms

• neom

Derived terms

• omenesc
• omeni
• omenire
• omenie
• omenos

Related terms

• inuman
• neuman
• uman

Etymology 2

Auxiliary verb form

Verb

(noi) om (modal auxiliary; first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

1. (we) might

   om merge mâine undeva

   we might go somewhere tomorrow

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔm/

• audio

  (file)

Conjunction

om

1. if

Preposition

om

1. about

   en bok om tåg

   a book about trains

2. in (when talking about time)

   om tio minuter

   in ten minutes

3. around

   Han har ett rep om sin hals

   He's got a rope around his neck

   De flyttade om möblerna

   They moved the furniture around

   Kocken rörde om i grytan

   The chef stirred (moved around) the pan

4. during, in (with words for seasons or times of the day)

   om våren

   during the spring, in the springtime

   om kvällarna

   in the evenings

5. of

   till vänster om kylskåpet

   to the left of the refrigerator

Related terms

• bry sig om
• året om
• även om

Particle

om

1. specifies that a verb is done again, compare English "re-".

   Hon målade om huset.

   She repainted the house.

   Sara blev tvungen att göra om läxorna.

   Sara had to do her homework again.

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Volapük

Pronoun

om (plural oms)

1. he (third-person masculine)
2. (obsolete) it (third-person neuter)

Declension

    declension of om

	singular	plural
nominative	om	oms
genitive	oma	omas
dative	ome	omes
accusative	omi	omis