vom

See also: VOM and vòm

English

Etymology

Clipping of vomit.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɒm/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

vom (uncountable)

  1. (informal) vomit

Verb

vom (third-person singular simple present voms, present participle vomming, simple past and past participle vommed)

  1. (informal) vomit
    • 1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 185:
      Bogle the diplomat tried to hide the sound of his gagging as he vommed the night away.
    • 2010, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Rhino What You Did Last Summer:
      Then the waft of puke and stale bourbon reaches my nostrils and I get that shorp[sic] taste in my mouth that you get when you know you're going to vom.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vomō. Compare Romanian voame, vom.

Verb

vom (third-person singular present indicative voami/voame, past participle vumutã)

  1. I vomit.
  • voamiri / voamire, vumeari / vumeare, vumeri
  • vumut

See also

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɔm/, [vʌmˀ]

Noun

vom c (singular definite vommen, plural indefinite vomme)

  1. belly
  2. paunch

Declension
Declension of vom
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vom vommen vomme vommene
genitive voms vommens vommes vommenes

Derived terms
  • vommet

Further reading

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɔm/, [fɔm]
  • Audio(file)

Contraction

vom (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

  1. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse vǫmb,[3] from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly; womb”). Cognates include English womb.

Noun

vom f (definite singular vomma, indefinite plural vommer, definite plural vommene)

  1. (anatomy, in ruminants) rumen
  2. (anatomy, in other animals) stomach
  3. (anatomy, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) a paunch, big belly

Inflection
Historical inflection of vom
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 Vomb Vombi Vember Vemberna
1901 vember (vembar) vemberne (vembane)
1917 vomb, vom vomba, vombi, vomma, vommi vember, vemmer vembene2 vemberne, vemmene
1938 vom vomma [vommi] vemmer vemmene
1962 vemmer, vommer vemmene, vommene
2012 (current) vom vomma vommer vommene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren already in 1910.

References
  1. Ivar Aasen (1850), “Vaamb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  2. Ivar Aasen (1850), “Vomb”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  3. “vom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [vom]

Verb

(noi) vom (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form future indicative tenses)

  1. (we) will
    Vom lua prânzul la ora douăsprezece.
    We will have lunch at 12 o'clock.

Swedish

Alternative forms

Noun

vom c

  1. a rumen, a paunch (the first compartment of the stomach of ruminants)

Declension
Declension of vom 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vom vommen vommar vommarna
Genitive voms vommens vommars vommarnas

See also

References

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English woman (woman (truncated) > wom > vom).

Noun

vom (nominative plural voms)

  1. woman (adult female human)

Declension
declension of vom
singular plural
nominative vom voms
genitive voma vomas
dative vome vomes
accusative vomi vomis
vocative 1 o vom! o voms!
predicative 2 vomu vomus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

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Derived terms
Terms derived from vom
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