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drom

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See also: dröm, drøm, and DROM

Albanian

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Etymology

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From Greek δρόμος (drómos, road).

Noun

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drom ?

  1. highway

Synonyms

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Dutch

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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drom m (plural drommen, no diminutive)

  1. flock (of people), throng, crowd

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: drom

Further reading

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)

  1. Munster form of droim

Mutation

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Mutated forms of drom
radical lenition eclipsis
drom dhrom ndrom

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Breatnach, Risteard B. (1947), The Irish of Ring, Co. Waterford: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 145, page 31
  2. ^ Dillon, Myles; Donncha Ó Cróinín (1961), Teach Yourself Irish, Sevenoaks, England: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 224
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938), Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Description of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 7, page 8

Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From English drum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drom

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

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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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

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drōm m

  1. joy, pleasure, ecstasy
    Drôm drohtines endi dagskīmon
    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

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

Descendants

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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drom m pers

  1. dative plural of dr

Romani

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Etymology

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

Noun

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drom m (nominative plural droma)

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

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. 3.0 3.1 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] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 132ab
  4. 4.0 4.1 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, page 148a