Gollum

Translingual

Etymology

From English Gollum, the character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, "to whom this shark bears some resemblance in form and habits." See more on Wikipedia: Slender smooth-hound § Taxonomy and phylogeny.

Proper noun

Gollum m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Pseudotriakidae – the slender smooth-hound and gollumsharks.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Chondrichthyes - superclass; Elasmobranchii - class; Selachimorpha - superorder; Carcharhiniformes - order; Pseudotriakidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Gollum attenuatus (slender smooth-hound), Gollum suluensis (Sulu gollumshark) - described species; white-marked gollumshark - undescribed species

References

• Gollum (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gollum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gollum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

A fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. In the story, he was originally known as Sméagol and later named Gollum after his habit of making "a horrible swallowing noise in his throat".

The name, Sméagol, comes from Old English smeagan (“to burrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) /ˈɡɒl.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒləm
• (US) enPR: gäl'əm, IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑləm/

Noun

Gollum (plural Gollums)

1. A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Translations

fictional character

• Bengali: গলম (golom)
• Catalan: Gòl·lum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咕嚕／咕噜 (zh) (gūlu)

• Czech: Glum m
• Dutch: Gollem, Sméagol
• Finnish: Klonkku
• German: Gollum
• Hebrew: גולום
• Japanese: ゴクリ
• Marathi: गोल्लम m (gollam)
• Russian: Горлум (Gorlum), Голлум (Gollum)
• Serbo-Croatian: Голум m, Golum m
• Swedish: Gollum
• Thai: กอลลัม (gɔn-lâm)

Verb

Gollum (third-person singular simple present Gollums, present participle Golluming, simple past and past participle Gollumed)

1. To act like Gollum, the fictional character.
   • 2005 April 28, Julian Love God, “X-Roasting”, in alt.zen‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <1114704034.462969.53660@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>:

     Mike Biggins Gollumed...
     "After a few years it still amazes me that there are so many egocentric 'facilitators' trying to pass 'enlightenment' to the uneducated via Apz... but... APZ is MINE, it's MY PRECIOUS!"
     And it came to pass that he spent his life festering in the cayons and caves of his own poisoned min(es)d!

Further reading

• Gollum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Noun

Gollum m (strong, genitive Gollums, plural Gollums)

1. Gollum

Swedish

Noun

Gollum

1. Gollum