soom

See also: Soom and -soom

Afar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːm/ [ˈsoːm]
• Hyphenation: soom

Noun

sóom m 

1. fast, fasting

Declension

Declension of sóom
absolutive	sóom
predicative	sóomu
subjective	sóom
genitive	sóom
Postpositioned forms l-case sóomul k-case sóomuk t-case sóomut h-case sóomuh

References

• Enid M. Parker (2006) English-Afar dictionary, Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page V
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 62

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zoom.

Pronunciation

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Noun

soom (plural some)

1. seam

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sōm, from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz.

Noun

sôom m

1. seam (of fabric)
2. edge, border in general

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: zoom

Further reading

• “soom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “soom (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I