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Macanese
Etymology
From Portuguese bom.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bôm (adverb bêm)
- good
- bôm-sono ― goodnight
- más bôm ― better (literally, “more good”)
- bôm cara ― good-looking (literally, “good face”)
- bôm coraçám ― kind-hearted, generous person (literally, “good heart”)
Êle têm bôm paga- He has a good salary
Usage notes
- bôm coraçám may be a calque of Cantonese 好心 (hou2 sam1).
- bô is very rarely used standalone,and mostly only in interjections such as bô-tarde.
Derived terms
References
Tày
Etymology
Compare bâm.
Pronunciation
Noun
bôm (𱑼)
- tray
- tọn bôm ― to clean a tray
- bôm chè ― tea tray
- bôm khẩu cẩu cần ― a 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
- (regional) apple
Synonyms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bôm
- a plant-derived tar
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
bôm
- first-person plural present subjunctive of bod
Mutation
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