haulm

English

Alternative forms

• halm

Etymology

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame and culm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɒm/, /hɔːm/

Noun

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

1. (uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching.
2. (countable) An individual plant stem.
3. (countable) Part of a harness; a hame.

Synonyms

• (stems of plants, used as animal litter or for thatching): straw, thatch

Translations

stems of cultivated plants left after harvesting

• Bulgarian: слама (bg) f (slama)
• Dutch: stro (nl) n
• Faroese: urt f
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• German: Stroh (de) n
• Persian: کلور (kolur), کلش (fa) (kolaš)
• Russian: соло́ма (ru) f (solóma)

an individual plant stem

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܢܝܐ m

• Bulgarian: сламка f (slamka)
• Danish: halm (da) c
• Dutch: halm (nl) m
• Esperanto: tigo (eo)
• Faroese: urt f
• French: fane (fr) f
• Georgian: ღერო (ɣero)
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• German: Halm (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: αὐλός m (aulós)

• Low German: Halm m
• Luxembourgish: Hallem m
• Norman: vîngne f (Jersey)
• Portuguese: caule (pt) m, haste (pt) f
• Russian: сте́бель (ru) m (stébelʹ), стебелёк (ru) m (stebeljók), соло́минка (ru) f (solóminka)

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Anagrams

• Lahmu, Laḫmu