# بوم
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

Likely of native onomatopoeic origin; Semitic parallels are Classical Syriac ܒܐܘܐ (bawwā, “owl; hoopoe”) and Akkadian 𒁍𒌝𒄷 (/⁠pûm, bûm; pa'û, ba'û⁠/, “type of bird”) attested in the Old Babylonian Era, and more recently the owl name بُوهَة (būha), although resembling Middle Persian 𐭡𐭥𐭯 (bwp /⁠būf⁠/), also only parallelly formed to Latin būbō, Ancient Greek βύας (búas), and Old Armenian բու (bu).

#### Noun

بُوم • (būm) f (collective, singulative بُومة f (būma), plural أَبْوَام (ʔabwām))
* owl, owls

##### Descendants

* → Amharic: ቡም (bum)
* → Classical Mandaic: ࡁࡅࡌ, ࡁࡅࡌࡁ
* → Persian: بوم (bum)
* → Classical Syriac: ܒܘܡܐ (būmā)
* → Ottoman Turkish: بوم (bum)

### Etymology 2

Ships were frequently likened to birds; compare the usage of other birds as ship types: Arabic غُرَاب (ḡurāb, “crow”), Arabic حَمَامَة (ḥamāma, “dove”), Arabic طَيْرَة (ṭayra, “swift bird”), Arabic زُرَّق (zurraq, “falcon”)

#### Noun

بُوم • (būm) m (plural أَبْوَام (ʔabwām))
* a kind of sailing ship for trade in the Gulf (built in Kuwait and India)
** 2014 July 28, “عطر الأجداد البحر والخرافي وأبل والخالد أسسوا شركة «حمّال باشي»”, in An-Nahār Kuwayt‎, archived from the original on 2019-04-30:وقد ضمت كل تشالة عددا من عمال النقل - الحمالين - الذين تخصصوا في تنزيل البضائع من البوم الى التشالة بمساعدة بحاره السفينة، لتتوجه من هناك الى الفرضة لانزالها وعدها وتسجيلها من قبل موظف الجمارك تمهيدا لدفع الضرائب ثم نقلها الى مخازن الفرضة ليتصرف بها التاجر كيفما يشاء وتعود التشاشيل المستخدمة في النقل لعدد من التجار والنواخذة الذين يتفقون مع التنديل للقيام بذلك العمل، ويعمل تحت امرة التنديل اكثر من مئة عامل بشكل دائم، بالاضافة الى اعداد كبيرة من العمال المؤقتين، الذين يقوم التنديل من خلالهم بتنظيم عملية النقل والتنزيل واداراتها وتحديد الزامات الورديات، وتقسيم العمل بين الحمالين.And each taššāla had a number of stevedores – carriers – which were specialized in loading the wares from the būm to the taššāla with the help of the mariners of the ship, heading from there to the port to launch it and make it ready and to sign with the customs officials to arrange the payment of the levies, then moving to the storerooms of the port so the merchants can wield as it lists them, and the taššalas used in the movement belonging to a number of merchants and shipowners who have convened with the chief sailor go on to undertake this work, and under the order of the chief sailor there work more than hundred workers continuously, in addition to large numbers of temporary workers, between whom the chief sailor organizes the process of moving and loading and its managing and determining the needs for shifts, and the division of labor between the carriers.

##### Declension
## Kashmiri
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boːm/

### Noun

بوم • (bōm) m (Devanagari बोम, Sharada 𑆧𑆾𑆩𑇀)
* anger

### Noun

بوم • (bōm) m (Devanagari बोम, Sharada 𑆧𑆾𑆩𑇀)
* (astronomy) the planet Mars

### References

Dictionary PartIII JKCulturalAcademy

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بُوم (būm).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːm/

### Noun

بوم • (būm) m (collective, singulative بومة f (būma), paucal بومات (būmāt))
* owls
    Synonym: موكة (mūka)

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [buːm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [buːm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [buːm]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [buːm]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bum]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [buːm]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bum]

### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭡𐭥𐭬 (būm), from Old Persian 𐏏 (būmiš), from Proto-Iranian *búHmiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰúHmiš (compare Sanskrit भूमि (bhūmi, “earth, soil, land”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be”).

#### Noun

| Dari | بوم |
| Iranian Persian | بوم |
| Tajik | бум |
بوم • (bum)
* land, soil, earth
* field, terrain
* country, realm, region
* (ecology) environment, habitat

##### Derived terms

* مرز و بوم (marz-o-bum)
* بومهین (bumahin)

##### Descendants

* → Urdu: بوم (būm)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic بُوم (būm).

#### Noun

| Dari | بوم |
| Iranian Persian | بوم |
| Tajik | бум |
بوم • (bum)
* owl
    Synonym: جغد (joğd)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

بوم • (bum)
* (colloquial-um) Spoken form of بام (bâm).

##### Related terms

* پشت‌بوم (pošt-e-bum)

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian بوم (būm, “earth, land”), from Middle Persian 𐭡𐭥𐭬 (būm), from Old Persian 𐏏 (būmiš), from Proto-Iranian *búHmiš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰúHmiš.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /buːm/

### Noun

بوم • (būm) ? (Hindi spelling बूम)
* earth, land, soil

#### Derived terms

* زاد بُوم (zād-būm, “birthplace, native land”)
* ریگ بوم (rēg-būm, “desert”)
* سَنگِ بُوم (sang-e-būm, “stony soil”)