som

See also: Appendix:Variations of "som"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Somali or abbreviation of Afar and Somali Soomaali.

Symbol

som

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Somali terms

English

100 som note (Kyrgyzstan)

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

• sum, soum

Noun

som (plural soms)

1. The currency of Kyrgyzstan. Symbol: ⃀.
2. The currency of Uzbekistan.

Translations

national currency of Uzbekistan — see also sum

• Arabic: سوم
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索姆 (suǒmǔ)

• Estonian: somm
• French: som (fr)
• Georgian: სომი (somi)
• Greek: σομ (som)
• Hungarian: szom (hu)
• Kazakh: сом (som)
• Kyrgyz: сом (ky) (som)
• Lithuanian: somas m
• Portuguese: som (pt)
• Russian: сом (ru) m (som)
• Tajik: сӯм (tg) (süm)
• Ukrainian: сом m (som)
• Uzbek: soʻm (uz)

  Cyrillic: сўм (soʻm)

national currency of Kyrgyzstan — see also sum

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 索姆 (suǒmǔ)

• Estonian: somm
• Kazakh: сом (som)
• Kyrgyz: сом (ky) (som)
• Portuguese: som (pt) m
• Russian: сом (ru) m (som)
• Tajik: сӯм (tg) (süm)
• Uzbek: soʻm (uz)

  Cyrillic: сўм (soʻm)

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.

Derived terms

• somever

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.

See also

• som tam / som tum

Anagrams

• MOS, MOs, OMS, OMs, SMO, mos, mos', oms, osm

Akan

Verb

som (Twi)

1. to worship

Derived terms

• asomfoɔ (“worshipper”)
• ɔsom (“(act of) worship”)

References

• LearnAkan (2018–present), “worship”, in LearnAkanDictionary.com (overall work in English)
• Anane, J. Opoku (2000), “som”, in Advance Akan Dictionary: Akuapim, Asante and Fante with Names and Meanings (overall work in English), Anwomaso – Kusami, Ghana: Prisebs Business Services, →ISBN, page 493

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈsum]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsom]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

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

Usage notes

In older versions of Catalan, this was the first person singular form, rather than the first person plural form, in the present indicative; thus, the first person plural in the present indicative had to keep the final S in Latin's -mus endings for the first person plural for distinguishment, although the other first person plural forms dropped it (future indicative serem, conditional seríem, but present indicative soms).

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *somъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsom]

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

• IPA^(key): /sɔm/, [sʌm]

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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     ...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^[3], 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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: som
• Rhymes: -ɔm

Noun

som f (plural sommen, diminutive sommetje n)

1. sum