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See also: Appendix:Variations of "som"

Translingual

Symbol

som

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Somali.

English

 Som (currency) on Wikipedia
 Kyrgyzstani som on Wikipedia
 Uzbekistani sum on Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]").

Alternative forms

Noun

som (plural soms)

  1. The currency of Uzbekistan.
  2. The currency of Kyrgyzstan.
Translations

Etymology 2

Pronoun

som

  1. Obsolete spelling of some.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Kimberly Kubus (K.Okkerstrøm), Airport Manager:
      U cared to try som of my snax

Determiner

som

  1. Obsolete spelling of some.

Etymology 3

Noun

som (plural soms)

  1. Alternative form of somm (“sommelier”).
    • 2013, Jay McInerney, The Juice: Vinous Veritas, page 19:
      The som who first introduced me to it leaned in close and whispered the news, as if he were offering me something illegal.

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin summus.

Adjective

som (feminine soma, masculine plural soms, feminine plural somes)

  1. shallow

Etymology 2

Verb

som

  1. first-person plural present indicative of ser
  2. first-person plural present indicative of ésser

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *somъ.

Pronunciation

Noun

som m anim

  1. archaic form of sumec

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse som, sem (“as, like”), cognate with Norwegian som, Swedish som. Probably a weakened form of Proto-Germanic *samą, *samô (“same, in the same way”), compare Old High German sama, samo, sam (“so, likewise”).

Pronunciation

Conjunction

som

  1. as, like (introduces comparisons, both noun phrases and dependent clauses)
    Synonym: ligesom
    fuld som en allike
    drunk as a jackdaw
  2. as (introduces a noun phrase that is an adjunct, or non-obligatory argument)
    • 1991, Benny Andersen, Chagall & skorpiondans‎:
      Han var som kunstner højst original, men solgte aldrig et billede.
      He was most original as an artist, but he never sold a single painting.
    Synonyms: i egenskab af, qua, værende
  3. such as (introduces an example)
    Synonyms: for eksempel, såsom
    pattedyr som hunde og katte
    mammals such as dogs and cats
  4. as (introduces a temporal adverbial clause)
    • 1987, Thøger Birkeland, Jomfrubanden‎:
      ...han tager pigens hånd, netop som hun vender sig for at gå tilbage til bordet.
      ...he takes the hand of the girl just as she turns around in order to go back to the table.
    Synonyms: da, idet
  5. as, because (introduces a causal adverbial clause)
    • 1849, Søren Kierkegaard, Enten-Eller‎, p. vol. 2, p. 228 /:
      Min Kone holder da af Dig, og jeg sympathiserer med hendes Følelse i denne henseende, saa meget mere som jeg troer, at grunden til hendes Velvillie for Dig for en Deel ligger deri, at hun seer Dine Svagheder.
      My wife likes you, and I sympathize with her feeling in this respect, the more so as I think that the reason for her good will towards you is partly based on the fact that she sees your weaknesses.
    Synonyms: da, eftersom
  6. how (introduces an exclamative independent clause)
    • 1987, Jørgen Sonne, Nul:
      Som vi da grinede!
      How we laughed!
    Synonym: hvor

Pronoun

som

  1. (relative) who, which, that (introduces relative clauses)
    Synonyms: der, hvilken
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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch somme, borrowed from Old French somme, from Latin summa.

Pronunciation

Noun

som f (plural sommen, diminutive sommetje n)

  1. sum
  2. (mathematics) problem
    Ik moet dertig sommen maken voor de wiskundeles van morgen. ― I have to solve thirty problems for tomorrow's maths class.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: sòm, som

References

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Galician

Verb

som

  1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of ser

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, compare Turkmen çüm (“cornel”), Kumyk чум (çum, “berry”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃom]
  • Hyphenation: som
  • Rhymes: -om

Noun

som (plural somok)

  1. cornel

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information possessor, single possession ...

Further reading

  • som in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch zoom (“hem; edge, border”), from Middle Dutch sôom, from Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɔm]
  • Hyphenation: som
  • Rhymes: -sɔm, -ɔm, -m

Noun

som (plural som-som)

  1. (sewing, colloquial) seam (folded back and stitched piece of fabric)
    Synonyms: kelim, pelipit

Derived terms

  • mengesom

Further reading

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sòmъ; cognate with Russian сом (som), Old Polish som, Old Czech som, Polabian såm.

Noun

som m anim

  1. catfish (fish of the order Siluriformes)
Declension
Declension of som
More information Singular, Dual ...

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “som”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999), “som”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *esmь.

Verb

som

  1. first-person singular present of byś
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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz.

Pronunciation

Determiner

som

  1. some

Inflection

More information singular, plural ...

Descendants

  • Dutch: som, saom (dialectal)
  • Limburgish: zóm

Further reading

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English sum, from Proto-West Germanic *sum, from Proto-Germanic *sumaz.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

som

  1. some

Adjective

som

  1. some

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Conjunction

som

  1. as; similar to, in the same way that

Derived terms

Pronoun

som

  1. (reflexive pronoun) who, which

Preposition

som

  1. as; to the same extent or degree that

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sem.

Pronunciation

Conjunction

som

  1. as
    Han jobbar som kelner.
    He is working as a waiter.
Derived terms

Pronoun

som

  1. (reflexive pronoun) who, which, that
    Dette er bilen som eg kjøpte.
    This is the car that I bought.
    Det var den mannen som kom.
    That was the man who came.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sumr. Akin to English some.

Alternative forms

  • sum (now nonstandard)

Pronunciation

Pronoun

som m (feminine som, neuter somt, plural somme)

  1. some
    Somt av det er nytt, resten er gamalt.
    Some of it is new, the rest is old.

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sōmu, from Proto-Germanic *sōmō, related to *sōmiz (“seemly”). Related to Old Norse sǿmr.

Pronunciation

Noun

sōm f

  1. agreement, concord
    • 11th century, Institutes of Polity:
      Hē sċeal bēon symle ymbe sōme and ymbe sibbe
      he shall ever be engaged in promoting concord and peace
  2. reconciliation, a setting aside of differences
    • 11th century, Institutes of Polity:
      Bisċeopum ġebȳraþ, gyf ǣniġ ōðrum ābelge, ðæt man geþyldiġe ōð gefērena sōme
      It behoves bishops, if any should anger others, that they be patient until the reconciliation of the companions
  3. an meeting for agreement, arrangement of dispute
    • early 10th century, Letter to King Edward explaining the history of land at Fonthill‎:
      Ðā ðūhte ūs eallan ðe æt ðǣre sōme wǣran,
      Then it seemed to all of us that were at the agreement,

Usage notes

Often found in collocation with sibb (“peace”).

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

References

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese son (probably influenced by or possibly borrowed from Old Occitan son), from Latin sonus. Alternatively, regressively derived from the verb soar. Compare Galician and Spanish son.

Pronunciation

Noun

som m (plural sons)

  1. sound (sensation perceived by the ear)
  2. (informal) music (melodic and rhythmic sounds made as art)
    Synonym: música
  3. (informal) an audio device, such as a stereo
    Synonym: equipamento de som

Derived terms

  • barreira do som
  • sonzeira
  • sonzinho (diminutive)
  • sonzão (augmentative)

See also

Romanian

Noun

som m (plural somi)

  1. obsolete form of sumă

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

References

  • som in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *somъ.

Noun

sȍm m anim (Cyrillic spelling со̏м)

  1. catfish
Declension
More information singular, plural ...

Etymology 2

The origins of this term are unclear. Possibly because som (catfish) is a big fish. Others believe it is due to the 1000 dinar banknotes of 1955, on which the person depicted appears to have two fish eyes (instead of welding goggles) on his head.

Noun

sȍm m inan (Cyrillic spelling со̏м)

  1. (colloquial) grand (a thousand of something, especially but not only money)
    dva soma ― two grand

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *esmь.

Pronunciation

Verb

som

  1. first-person singular present of byť

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • (Obsolete typography) ſom

Etymology

From Old Swedish som or sum, in Runic inscriptions also sim, same as Icelandic sem, from Old Norse sem.

Also related to the prefix sam- (“co-, common, together”) and suffix -sam (“-some, -like”). Still in the Poetic Edda, the Icelandic sem is only used as a comparative particle, e.g. Hávamál 23 allt er víl sem var (And his woe is just as it was). With time it has displaced other relative conjunctions (es, er). Its use as a pronoun is of a later date.

Pronunciation

Adverb

som (not comparable)

  2. (followed by a superlative adjective) at its/his/hers
    • 1999, Johan Halleröd, Fredde Granberg, Tomas Claesson, Marko Lehtosalo, “Sola och bada i Piña Colada [Sunbathing and Swimming in Piña Colada]”‎performed by Markoolio [portmanteau of his first name Marko and the stage name of American rapper Coolio]; Jemma Myrberg:
      Sola och bada i Piña Colada. På sommaren är livet som bäst. Alla blir glada av Piña Colada. Man röjer och hånglar på fest.
      Sunbathing and swimming in Piña Colada [[To] sunbathe and swim in Piña Colada]. In the summer, life is at its best. Piña Colada makes everyone happy [Everyone becomes happy from Piña Colada]. You go wild and make out at parties ["at party" – while at a party].
    när vintern är som kallast
    when winter is at its coldest
    (literally, “when the winter is as coldest”)
    när solen står som högst
    when the sun is at its highest
    (literally, “when the sun stands as highest”)
    Hon är oslagbar när hon är som bäst
    She is unbeatable when she is at her best
    (literally, “She is unbeatable when she is as best”)
    1. the
      där backen är som brantast
      where the hill is the [at its] steepest
      (literally, “where the hill is as steepest”)

Conjunction

som

  1. as, like
    flitig som ett bi
    busy [diligent] as a bee
    Hon lät som en häst
    She sounded like a horse
  2. as (in the role of)
    Som president är det jag som bestämmer
    As president, I am the one in charge
  3. as (the way)
    Som du önskar!
    As you wish!

Derived terms

(and many other similes)

Pronoun

som

  1. (relative) who, which, that
    Det var hon som gjorde det.
    She is the one who did it.
    Det där är stenen som kraschade rutan.
    That’s the stone that broke the window.
  2. as; to the same extent or degree that
    Du är inte lika lång som jag är.
    You are not as tall as I am.
    Du är inte lika lång som jag.
    You are not as tall as me.

Derived terms

(and many others)

References

Anagrams

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Pronunciation

Verb

som

  1. (stative) to be murky, turbid

Conjugation

More information singular, plural ...

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *som (“pure, solid”).

Adjective

som

  1. solid
    Synonym: katı
  2. pure
    Synonyms: salt, arı, katkısız, katışıksız
  3. fine

Derived terms

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French saumon.

Noun

som (definite accusative somu, plural somlar)

  1. salmon

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Zou

Zou cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 11  > 
    Cardinal : som

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *soom.

Pronunciation

Numeral

sòm

  1. ten

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 48

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