Qom

See also: qom

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Iranian Persian قم (qom), from Classical Persian قم (qum).

Alternative forms

• Ghom, Qum, Q'um

Proper noun

Qom

2. A city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning.
4. A county of Iran, around the city.
6. A province of Iran.

Translations

city, county, and province in Iran

• Armenian: Ղում (Ġum)
• Azerbaijani: Qum
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫姆 / 库姆 (zh) (Kùmǔ)

• Esperanto: Ĥomo
• German: Ghom (de)
• Japanese: ゴム (ja) (Gomu)
• Persian: قم (fa) (qom)
• Russian: Кум (ru) m (Kum)
• Spanish: Qom (es), Qum
• Tajik: Қум (Qum)
• Uzbek: Qum

See also

provinces of Iranedit

• Alborz
• Ardabil
• Bushehr
• Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
• East Azerbaijan
• Fars
• Gilan
• Golestan
• Hamadan
• Hormozgan
• Ilam
• Isfahan
• Kerman
• Kermanshah
• Khuzestan
• Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
• Kurdistan
• Lorestan
• Markazi
• Mazandaran
• North Khorasan
• Qazvin
• Qom
• Razavi Khorasan
• Semnan
• Sistan and Baluchestan
• South Khorasan
• Tehran
• West Azerbaijan
• Yazd
• Zanjan

Etymology 2

Noun

Qom pl (plural only)

1. Synonym of Toba (“a people of Argentina”).

Anagrams

• MOQ

Toba

Alternative forms

• Qum

Proper noun

Qom

1. the Toba people

References

• María Belén Carpio; Marisa Censabella (2012), “Clauses as noun modifiers in Toba”, in Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, editors, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas (in Toba), →ISBN