vom

See also: VOM and vòm

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɒm/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

vom (uncountable)

1. (informal) vomit

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

1. (informal) vomit
   • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle (page 185)

     Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.

   • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer

     Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp^[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

Anagrams

• MOV, OMV, mov.

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vomu, zvom, zvomu

Etymology

From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom (third-person singular present indicative voami/voame, past participle vumutã)

1. I vomit.

Related terms

• voamiri / voamire, vumeari / vumeare, vumeri
• vumut

See also

• versu

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔm/, [vʌmˀ]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

1. belly
2. paunch

Declension

Declension of vom

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vom	vommen	vomme	vommene
genitive	voms	vommens	vommes	vommenes

Derived terms

• vommet

Further reading

• “vom” in Den Danske Ordbog

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔm/, [fɔm]

• Audio

  (file)

Contraction

vom (+ adjective ending with -em + masculine or neuter noun)

1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Vaamb, Vomb, vomb

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

Inflection

Historical inflection of vom indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural Aasen1 Vomb Vombi Vember Vemberna 1901 vember (vembar) vemberne (vembane) 1917 vomb, vom vomba, vombi, vomma, vommi vember, vemmer vembene2 vemberne, vemmene 1938 vom vomma [vommi] vemmer vemmene 1962 vemmer, vommer vemmene, vommene 2012 (current) vom vomma vommer vommene Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren already in 1910.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vom]

Verb

(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

1. (we) will

   Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.

   We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• våm

Noun

vom c

1. a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)

Declension

Declension of vom
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	vom	vommen	vommar	vommarna
Genitive	voms	vommens	vommars	vommarnas

See also

• nätmage (“reticulum, bonnet”)
• bladmage (“omasum, psalterium, manyplies”)
• löpmage (“abomasum, reed”)

References

• vom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).

Noun

vom (nominative plural voms)

1. woman (adult female human)

Declension

declension of vom

	singular	plural
nominative	vom	voms
genitive	voma	vomas
dative	vome	vomes
accusative	vomi	vomis
vocative 1	o vom!	o voms!
predicative 2	vomu	vomus

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

Hypernyms

• men
• nim

Coordinate terms

• man

Derived terms

Terms derived from vom

• vomajit
• vomakleud
• vomef
• vomidek
• vomik

• vomil
• vomöf
• vomöfik
• vomül