drom

See also: dröm and drøm

Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).

Noun

drom ?

1. highway

Synonyms

• xhade

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

drom m (plural drommen)

1. flock (of people).
2. crowd

Synonyms

• meute

Derived terms

• bijendrom

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Irish

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.

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English drum.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [dʁom]

Noun

drom

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

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Old Saxon

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) 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:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum

    Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem

    Westmünsterländisch: Droom

  • Plautdietsch: Droom

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Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).

Noun

drom m (plural droma)

1. road

References

• Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “drom”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 136