goma

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

goma f (plural gomes)

1. rubber
2. gum
3. eraser

Derived terms

Further reading

• “goma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “goma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “goma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “goma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1350. From Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

goma f (plural gomas)

1. resin, sap, gum
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 197:

     era chẽo de dentro de moytas espeçias et de gomas as mays nobles et as mays virtuosas que ẽno mũdo auya

     it was filled in the inside with many spices and resins, the most noble and virtuous that there were in the world

2. rubber
3. eraser

References

• “goma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “goma” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “goma” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “goma” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “goma” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hausa

Etymology

From Proto-Chadic *gʷam-, likely an old borrowing from Niger-Congo (compare Proto-Bantu *ìkʊ́mì), or from Proto-Afroasiatic with metathesis. If so, cognate with Egyptian mḏw and Proto-Berber *măraw (whence Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵔⴰⵡ (mraw)). Cognate with Ngizim gūmà, Bura kuma, Daba guɓ, Podoko jɨ́ma, Kirya-Konzel gùm, Duwai gū̀mà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡóː.mà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Numeral

gōmà f

1. ten

Derived terms

• gomiya

Japanese

Romanization

goma

1. Rōmaji transcription of ごま
2. Rōmaji transcription of ゴマ

Lombard

Alternative forms

• gomma, guma, gumma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoma/, ,

Noun

goma f (plural gome)

1. rubber
2. gum
3. eraser
4. tyre

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gōmô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoː.mɑ/

Noun

gōma m

1. palate, the roof of the mouth

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: gome, goome, gomme, gumme
  • English: gum, goom (dialectal)
  • Scots: goom, geem, gum

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi).

Pronunciation

Noun

goma f (plural gomas)

1. starch (laundry stiffener)
2. gum (viscous substance exuded by certain plants)
3. (Brazil, slang) home, house

   Cola na minha goma mais tarde pra gente jogar um pouco de videogame.

   Come to my house later so we can play some video games.

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-goma (infinitive kugoma, perfective -gomye)

1. rebel, revolt

Derived terms

• umugome

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Goma (plants substance)

Wikipedia ^es

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Goma (disambiguation)

Wikipedia ^es

Latex being collected from a tapped rubber tree, Cameroon

Gum

A few rubber bands

Two rubbers / erasers

Nitrocellulose adhesive dispensed from a tube

Hair ties in different colors

An unwrapped stick of chewing gum

A rolled-up condom

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoma/
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: go‧ma

Noun

goma f (plural gomas)

1. rubber (substance, material)

   Synonym: caucho

2. gum (substance exuded by certain plants)

   Synonym: resina

3. rubber band

   Synonyms: gomita, (Argentina) bandita, (Argentina, Chile, Colombia) banda

4. eraser (North America), rubber (UK, India), india rubber (UK), bungee (UK)

   Synonyms: goma de borrar, borrador

5. (Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Uruguay) glue

   Synonym: pegamento

6. (Spain) hair tie, ponytail holder, ponytailer, hair elastic, bobble, hair boble

   Synonyms: (Spain) goma del pelo, (Argentina, Colombia) colita, (Chile) colet, (Mexico) liga, colero

7. chewing gum

   Synonyms: goma de mascar, chicle

8. condom

   Synonyms: preservativo, condón

9. (Central America) hangover (illness caused by a previous bout of heavy drinking)

   Synonym: resaca

10. (Spain) drunkenness

    Synonym: borrachera

11. (Argentina, Chile, vulgar, in the plural) women’s breast

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Tagalog: goma

Further reading

• “goma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “goma” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

Etymology 2

Verb

goma

1. inflection of gomar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Portuguese goma.

Noun

goma

1. starch (laundry stiffener)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Verb

-goma (infinitive kugoma)

1. to boycott, strike

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • mgomaji (“striker”)
  • mgomo (“strike”)
  • ugomaji (“striking”)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish goma (“rubber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoma/,
• Hyphenation: go‧ma

Noun

goma (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜋ)

1. rubber; gum

   Synonyms: kola, pangkola

2. rubber band; elastic band

   Synonym: lastiko

3. rubber eraser

   Synonym: pambura

4. rubber tire
5. rubber shoes

Derived terms

• gomahan

Adjective

goma (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜋ)

1. made of rubber