goma

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

goma f (plural gomes)

1. rubber
2. gum
3. eraser

• “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.

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

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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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “goma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “goma”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “goma”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “goma”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “goma”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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.

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

gōmà f

1. ten

• gomiya

goma

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

• gomma, guma, gumma

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoma/, ,

goma f (plural gome)

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

From Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoː.mɑ/

gōma m

1. palate, the roof of the mouth

Weak:

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

• Rhymes: -omɐ

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

goma f (plural gomas)

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

• → Sranan Tongo: goma

Borrowed from Nyungwe ngoma.

goma f (plural gomas)

1. (Mozambique) Synonym of cudo (“kudu”).

Borrowed from Kimbundu ngoma.

goma f (plural gomas)

1. (Angola) a type of long drum

• “goma”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “goma”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

-goma (infinitive kugoma, perfective -gomye)

1. rebel, revolt

• umugome

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

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

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

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

• → Cebuano: goma
• → Ilocano: goma
• → Maguindanao: guma
• → Tagalog: goma
• → Tausug: guma

• “goma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “goma” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.

goma

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

From Portuguese goma.

goma

1. starch (laundry stiffener)

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-goma (infinitive kugoma)

1. to boycott, strike

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

Borrowed from Spanish goma (“rubber”).

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

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

• gomahan

goma (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜋ)

1. made of rubber

• mago, Mago