prom

See also: Prom and PROM

English

Etymology

Clipping of promenade.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹɑm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹɒm/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒm

Noun

prom (plural proms)

1. (Britain) A promenade concert.
2. (Britain, abbreviation) A promenade.
3. (US) A formal ball held at a high school or college on special occasions; e.g,. near the end of the academic year.

   Would you like to be my prom date?

Derived terms

• high school prom / high-school prom / highschool prom
• prom king / prom queen
• promposal

Translations

promenade — See also translations at promenade

• Finnish: kävelykatu (fi), promenadi (fi)
• Hungarian: sétány (hu)

a promenade concert — See also translations at promenade concert

• Hungarian: sétahangverseny

a formal ball

• Arabic: حَفْلَة مُوسِيقِيَّة‎ f (ḥafla(t) mūsīqiyya)
• Armenian: վերջին զանգ (verǰin zang), վիպուսկնոյ (vipusknoy) (colloquial)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 畢業舞會／毕业舞会 (bìyè wǔhuì), 舞會／舞会 (zh) (wǔhuì)

• Esperanto: balo, abiturienta balo
• Finnish: tanssiaiset (fi) pl
• French: bal de promo (fr), bal des finissants (fr) m (Canadian French), bal du printemps (Swiss French)
• Georgian: ბანკეტი (banḳeṭi), გამოსაშვები საღამო (gamosašvebi saɣamo)
• German: Ball (de) m, Abschlussball (de) m, Prom f, Promenade (de) f, Abiball (de) m
• Hungarian: diákbál, szalagavató, év végi iskolai bál
• Italian: ballo di fine anno
• Japanese: プロム (puromu), プロムナード (puromunādo), 舞踏会 (ぶとうかい, butōkai)
• Korean: 프롬 (peurom), 프롬나드 (peuromnadeu), 무도회 (ko) (mudohoe)
• Portuguese: baile de formatura
• Russian: (студенческий) бал (ru) m (bal), выпускно́й ве́чер (ru) m (vypusknój véčer) (graduation party), (US) пром m (prom)
• Swedish: bal (sv)
• Turkish: balo (tr)

See also

• dance with the one that brought you

Anagrams

• romp

Latvian

Adverb

prom

1. away
2. off

Synonyms

• projām

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pormъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Syllabification: prom

Noun

prom m inan

1. ferry
2. (astronautics) shuttle

   prom kosmiczny ― space shuttle

Declension

Declension of prom

	singular	plural
nominative	prom	promy
genitive	promu	promów
dative	promowi	promom
accusative	prom	promy
instrumental	promem	promami
locative	promie	promach
vocative	promie	promy

Further reading

• prom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• prom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Volapük

Noun

prom (nominative plural proms)

1. promise

Declension

declension of prom

	singular	plural
nominative	prom	proms
genitive	proma	promas
dative	prome	promes
accusative	promi	promis
vocative 1	o prom!	o proms!
predicative 2	promu	promus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prom/

Noun

prom c (plural prommen, diminutive promke)

1. (Clay) plum

Alternative forms

• prûm (Wood)

Further reading

• “prom”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011