soom
See also: Soom and -soom
Afar
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoːm/
- Hyphenation: soom
Noun
sóom m
- fast, fasting
Declension
| Declension of sóom | ||||||||||||||||||
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| absolutive | sóom | |||||||||||||||||
| predicative | sóomu | |||||||||||||||||
| subjective | sóom | |||||||||||||||||
| genitive | sóom | |||||||||||||||||
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References
- Enid M. Parker (2006) English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page V
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 62
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zoom.
Pronunciation
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Noun
soom (plural some)
- seam
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.
Noun
sôom m
- seam (of fabric)
- edge, border in general
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: zoom
Further reading
- “soom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “soom (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I