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English
Noun
larum (plural larums)
- Obsolete form of alarum.
Derived terms
Verb
larum (third-person singular simple present larums, present participle laruming, simple past and past participle larumed)
- Obsolete form of alarum.
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
larum
- accusative singular of larus
Old English
Noun
lārum
- dative plural of lār
Polish
Etymology
From Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armōrum (“weapons”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -arum
- Syllabification: la‧rum
Noun
larum n (indeclinable)
- (derogatory) uproar, especially misguided or dishonest
- Synonyms: wrzawa, wrzask, zamieszanie, zgiełk
- (archaic) alarum, call to arms
- (dated) alarm signal
Further reading
- larum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- larum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Leon Rzeszowski (1891) “larum”, in “Spis wyrazów ludowych z okolic Żywca”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 357