ohm

See also: Ohm

English

Etymology

Named after Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm. (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German surname, first recorded 12th century, from German Ohm (“uncle”), from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic word. Compare Dutch oom (“uncle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əʊm/
• IPA^(key): /oʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm

Noun

ohm (plural ohms)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical resistance; the electrical resistance of a device across which a potential difference of one volt causes a current of one ampere. Symbol: Ω

Translations

the derived unit of electrical resistance

• Arabic: أُوم m (ʾōm)
• Armenian: օհմ (ōhm)
• Belarusian: ом m (om)
• Bulgarian: ом m (om)
• Catalan: ohm m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歐姆／欧姆 (zh) (ōumǔ), 欧姆 (zh) (ōumǔ)

• Czech: ohm (cs) m
• Dutch: ohm (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: omo
• Finnish: ohmi (fi)
• French: ohm (fr) m
• Georgian: ომი (omi)
• German: Ohm (de) n
• Greek: ωμ n (om)
• Hebrew: אוהם (he) m (ohm), אוֹם (he) m (om)
• Icelandic: óm
• Indonesian: ohm (id)
• Interlingua: ohm
• Irish: óm m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ohm (it)
• Japanese: オーム (ja) (ōmu)
• Korean: 옴 (om)
• Latvian: oms
• Macedonian: ом m (om)
• Malay: ohm
• Maori: wae parehiko
• Polish: om (pl) m, ohm (pl) m
• Portuguese: ohm (pt) m
• Russian: ом (ru) m (om)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ом m

  Roman: om (sh) m

• Spanish: ohmio (es) m
• Swedish: ohm (sv) c
• Tagalog: omyo, om (tl)
• Thai: โอห์ม (oom)
• Turkish: om (tr)
• Ukrainian: ом (uk) m (om)

Anagrams

• HMO, MOH, mho, moh

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Czech

Noun

1. ohm (unit of electrical resistance)

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ohm m (plural ohms, diminutive ohmpje n)

1. ohm

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /om/

• audio:

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• Homophone: heaume (but aspirated h)

Noun

ohm m (plural ohms)

1. ohm

Further reading

• “ohm”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Noun

ohm m (plural ohms)

1. ohm

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Polish

Alternative forms

• om

Etymology

Named after the German physicist Georg Ohm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ɔm//

Noun

ohm m inan

1. (uncommon) ohm

Declension

Declension of ohm

	singular	plural
nominative	ohm	ohmy
genitive	ohma	ohmów
dative	ohmowi	ohmom
accusative	ohm	ohmy
instrumental	ohmem	ohmami
locative	ohmie	ohmach
vocative	ohmie	ohmy

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Portuguese

Noun

ohm m (plural s)

1. ohm (the derived unit of electrical resistance)

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Spanish

Noun

ohm m (plural ohms)

1. Alternative form of ohmio