rum

Translingual

Symbol

rum

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Romanian.

English

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rum

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹʌm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

In common use since by at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include:

• that it derives from rum (“fine, good”), or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, the first theory is now considered unlikely),
• that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, or
• that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (but these drinks were not originally made with rum)
• that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer

Alternative forms

• rhum (Philippines)

Noun

rum (countable and uncountable, plural rums)

1. (uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.

   The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.

   1. (countable) A serving of rum.

      Jake tossed down three rums.

   2. (countable) A kind or brand of rum.

      Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.

   Coordinate term: grog

2. (obsolete, slang) A strange person or thing.
3. (obsolete, slang) A country parson.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:

     No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.

Synonyms

• (spirit): rumbullion (obsolete)
• (odd person): odd duck, strange fish, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person
• (odd thing): abnormality, deviant, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

Derived terms

Related terms

• baba au rhum

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From the earlier form rome, slang for "good"; possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.

Adjective

rum (comparative rummer, superlative rummest)

1. (obsolete) Fine, excellent, valuable.

   having a rum time

2. (UK, informal, dated) Strange, peculiar.

   a rum idea; a rum fellow

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. , volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC:

     "Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 27, in The History of Pendennis. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     [H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.

   • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎:

     The young men had exchanged few observations; but in crossing Union Square, in front of the monument to Washington—in the very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the pater patriae—one of them remarked to the other, “It seems a rum-looking place.”
     “Ah, very odd, very odd,” said the other, who was the clever man of the two.

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian‎:

     "Can't you see him?"
     "Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light."

   • 1976, James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful, page 346:

     "She's as 'appy as Larry, but she'll neither move nor eat. It's a rum 'un, isn't it?" It was very rum indeed.

Synonyms

• (fine, excellent, valuable): exceptional, pukka, top-notch; see also Thesaurus:excellent
• (strange, peculiar): bizarre, queer, rummy; see also Thesaurus:strange

Derived terms

• rum deal
• rum go

Noun

rum (plural rums)

1. (British, colloquial, dated) Any odd person or thing.

Etymology 3

Shortening of rummy.

Noun

rum

1. (rare) The card game rummy.

Derived terms

References

• “rum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

See also

• rum-tum (probably etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• MRU, Mru, RMU, URM

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English room.

Noun

rum

1. room

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

rum

Wikipedia ^cs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Rum, from English rum, originally rumbullion.

Noun

rum m inan

1. rum

Declension

Etymology 2

Probably from German Rummel (“bustle”).

Noun

rum m inan

1. rubble

   Synonym: suť

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• rum in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• rum in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• rum in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /romˀ/,
• Rhymes: -ɔm

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rúm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room, open space”), cognate with English room, German Raum, Dutch ruim, Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼 (rum).

Noun

rum n (singular definite rummet, plural indefinite rum)

1. room (part of a building)
2. compartment
3. (chiefly definite) space (the universe except Earth and its atmosphere)

   De fravalgte at udforske rummet.

   They chose not to explore space.

   rumfarttøj (“space vehicle”), rumrejse (“space travel”)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rúmr, from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious, open”), cognate with English room (archaic), German raum (archaic), Dutch ruim, Chong 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃. Related to the noun.

Adjective

rum (neuter rumt, plural and definite singular attributive rumme)

2. (archaic) wide, spacious

   in the modern language only in the expressions i rum sø (“in open sea”) and rum tid (“long time”)

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rum

1. imperative of rumme

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English rum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʏm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: rum
• Rhymes: -ʏm

Noun

rum m (uncountable)

1. rum (alcoholic beverage)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Negerhollands: roem, rum

Further reading

• rum (drank) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Fiji Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from English room.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruːm/

Noun

rum

1. room

References

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary

German

Etymology

From dialectal German (e)rum, reduced form of herum and in some dialects darum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁʊm/

• Audio

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Adverb

rum

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of herum (“around”)

Usage notes

• While most or all instances of standard herum can be replaced with rum in the vernacular, compounds that are inherently colloquial will typically sound odd when herum is used in them. These will appear in writing with rum or not at all.

Derived terms

• rumballern
• rumeiern
• rumsitzen
• rumstehen

Gothic

Romanization

rum

1. Romanization of 𐍂𐌿𐌼

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Rum, from English rum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: rum
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

rum (plural rumok)

1. rum (a distilled spirit)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• rum in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English rum.

Noun

rum m (genitive singular rum, nominative plural rumanna)

1. rum

Declension

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rum”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Italian

Alternative forms

• rhum

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrum/
• Rhymes: -um
• Hyphenation: rùm

Noun

rum m (invariable)

1. rum (distilled spirit)

Derived terms

• rum fantasia

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from Low German Ruum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrum/
• Syllabification: rum

Noun

rum m inan

1. room, space

Further reading

• “rum”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Ruum, from Middle Low German rûm, Old Saxon rūm, from Proto-West Germanic *rūm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

rum m inan (diminutive rumk)

1. room, space

Declension

Derived terms

• rumašk
• rumejza
• rumnosć
• rumny
• rumowaŕ
• rumowaś
• rumowy

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruːm/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *rūm. Cognate with Old Saxon rūm, Dutch ruim, Old High German rūm, Old Norse rúmr, Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃 (rums).

Adjective

rūm

1. spacious, roomy
2. long, extended (of time)
3. liberal, extensive, ample, abundant, bountiful, expansive, generous

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *rūm.

Noun

rūm n or m

1. room, space
2. a space of time, an interval
3. opportunity

Declension

Neuter

Masculine

Derived terms

• ġerūm

Descendants

• Middle English: roum, roume
  • English: room

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German herum.

Adverb

rum

1. around

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

rum

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rum/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: rum

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English rum.

Noun

rum m inan

1. rum (distilled spirit)
2. rum (serving)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle High German rūm, roum, from Old High German rūm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą.

Noun

rum m inan

1. (archaic, geology) broken debris, rock crumbs

Declension

Further reading

• rum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: rum

Noun

rum m (plural runs)

1. rum

Romanian

Noun

rum n (plural rumuri)

1. Alternative form of rom

Sumerian

Romanization

rum

1. Romanization of 𒀸 (rum)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rúm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą, from Proto-Indo-European *rowǝ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɵm/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

rum n

1. a room (in a building)

   Jag vill ha en lägenhet med två rum

   I want a flat with two rooms

2. space, room

   Har du rum i din väska så att du kan lägga ner min bok också?

   Do you have room in your bag so that you could put my book in it too?

   det kröka rummet

   curved space

3. (mathematics) a space

   linjärt rum

   linear space

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• plats

References

• rum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• mur

Tarifit

Noun

rum pl (Tifinagh spelling ⵔⵓⵎ)

1. Alternative spelling of řum: straw

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English room.

Noun

rum

1. room

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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Noun

rum

1. safflower