bôm

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Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Pronunciation

Adjective

bôm (adverb bêm)

  1. good
    bôm-sonogoodnight
    más bômbetter (literally, “more good”)
    bôm caragood-looking (literally, “good face”)
    bôm coraçámkind-hearted, generous person (literally, “good heart”)
    Êle têm bôm paga
    He has a good salary

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Tày

Etymology

Compare bâm.

Pronunciation

Noun

bôm (𱑼)

  1. tray
    tọn bômto clean a tray
    bôm chètea tray
    bôm khẩu cẩu cầna tray with nine eaters
    cáy tốc bôm khẩu slan
    to be unexpectedly lucky
    (literally, “a chicken falls into a rice tray”)

Derived terms

References

  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pomme; the phoneme /p/ is changed into /ɓ/ as it is not a native onset consonant.

Noun

(classifier trái, quả, cây) bôm

  1. (regional) apple
Synonyms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bôm

  1. a plant-derived tar

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

bôm

  1. first-person plural present subjunctive of bod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bôm fôm môm unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.