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Korean
Etymology 1
Of native Korean origin. Probably cognate with Korean 움 (um, “bud”).
Noun
옴 • (om)
- scab, scabies, (of a mammal) mange
옴 덕에 보지 긁는다. 사타구니 긁다 보지 긁는다.- Om deog-e boji geungneunda. Sataguni geukda boji geungneunda.
- Scabies justify her to scratch her pubes. She scratches her pubes as well as her itchy thigh.
- small bulges or goose pimples on the areola around the nipple
- Short for 옴쌀 (omssal, “the grains that remain unmashed in Korean glutinous rice dough”)..
- Synonyms: 찰떡 (chaltteok), 인절미 (injeolmi)
Synonyms
See also
- 버짐 (beojim, “ringworm”)
- 백선(白癬) (baekseon)
- 생선(生癬) (saengseon)
- 윤선(輪) (yunseon)
- 선창(癬瘡) (seonchang)
- 가렵다 (garyeopda, “to be itchy”)
- 긁다 (geukda, “to scratch, scrape, gripe, carp, rake”)
Etymology 2
From German Ohm.
Noun
옴 • (om)
- ohm
- Synonym: 오옴 (oom)
Proper noun
옴 • (Om)
- Ohm (the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1789~1854), who discovered Ohm's Law in 1826)
- Synonym: 오옴 (Oom)
Etymology 3
Of native Korean origin. Verb form of 오다 (oda, “to go”).
Noun
옴 • (om)
- (the substantive form of 오다 (oda, “to go”), i.e., "the act of going")