# Boom
## Translingual
### Proper noun

Boom
* A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Boudewijn Karel Boom (1903-1980).

### Further reading

* Author query of the International Plant Names Index

## English
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boʊm/
* Rhymes: -oʊm

### Proper noun

Boom
* A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* MOBO, mobo, moob

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* Baum, Boum (Kölsch; Westerwald)
* Baam (southern Moselle Franconian)

### Etymology

From Middle High German boum, from Old High German boum, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, possibly from Proto-Germanic *bagmaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boːm/ (Ripuarian; western Moselle Franconian)
* IPA: /bɔːm/ (eastern Moselle Franconian)

### Noun

Boom m (plural Bööm or Beem or Bääm, diminutive Böömche or Beemche or Bäämche)
* (most dialects) tree
    Met sengem neue Kleedche mot it och op dä Boom klemme!But she simply had to climb on that tree in her new dress!

#### Usage notes

* The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian. The forms with -e- are used in Moselle Franconian dialects that pronounce /oː/ in the singular; those with -ä- are used in dialects that pronounce /ɔː/.

#### Descendants

* Hunsrik: Baam
* Luxembourgish: Bam
* Transylvanian Saxon: bum

## Dutch
### Etymology

The surname is from bom (“tree”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boːm/, (Southern Dutch) [boːm]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Boom
* Rhymes: -oːm

### Proper noun

Boom n
* a Belgian town and municipality in the Flemish province of Antwerp
* a surname

#### Related terms

* Bomenaar (demonym)

### Further reading

* Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Boom”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 193.

## East Central German
### Alternative forms

* Baam

### Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German boum.

### Noun

Boom
* (Upper Saxon) tree

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Boom m (strong, genitive Booms, plural Booms)
* (economics) boom
    Synonym: Aufschwung

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Boom” in Duden online
* “Boom” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## German Low German
### Alternative forms

* Bom
* (Westphalian: Münsterländisch) Baum (plural Bäume)
* (Westphalian: Paderbornisch) Baum (plural Bäme)
* (Westphalian) Baum (plural Bäime)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German bôm, from Old Saxon bōm,from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz. Akin to Dutch boom, Low German Baum, German Baum, West Frisian beam, English beam.

### Noun

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Boom m (plural Bööme or Bööm or Böme)
* tree

#### Hypernyms

* Plant

#### Hyponyms

* Bark
* Böök
* Dann
* Eek
* Esch
* Föhr, Fuhr
* Kastang, Kastange, Kastanje
* Linn
* Palm
* Pinie
* Sülverlinn

#### Derived terms

* Appelboom
* Beerboom
* Boomfarn
* Boomgoorn
* Boomoort
* Dannenboom
* Drakenboom (Dracaena)
* Duvenboom (Cathaya argyrophylla)
* Linnenboom
* Loofboom
* Mammutboom
* Nadelboom
* Nuttboom
* Nöötboom
* Olivenboom
* Salboom
* Öölboom

#### See also

* Farn
* Struuk

### References

* Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

## Limburgish
### Etymology

From Boum, with regular Ripuarian-Limburgish monophthongisation.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboːm/
* Rhymes: -oːm

### Noun

Boom m (plural Bööm, diminutive Böömke) (German-based spelling)
* Southeast Limburgish form of Boum

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* buum (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian bām. Cognates include West Frisian beam, Dutch boom and German Baum.

### Noun

Boom m (plural Boomer)
* (Sylt) tree
    en hoog Boom ― a tall tree

## Plautdietsch
### Etymology

From Middle Low German bôm, from Old Saxon bōm.

### Noun

Boom m (plural Beem)
* tree
** 2003, De Bibel, Matäus (Matthew) 7:17:
    Jrod soo drajcht een gooda Boom goode Frucht un een schlajchta Boom schlajchte Frucht.Likewise, a good tree bears good fruit, and a bad tree bears bad fruit.

#### Derived terms

* Boomstaum (tree trunk, bole)
* Boomwoll (cotton)
* Boomworscht (banana)
* Hoafstboom (autumn tree)
* Bäarenboom (pear tree)
* Kjoaschenboom (cherry tree)
* Wiedenboom (willow)
* Wienachtsboom (Christmas tree)

### See also

* Boon (bean)
* Bloom (flower)
* Holt (wood)
* Woolt (woods, forest)
* Däa (door)
* Hoff
* Hus
* Staul
* Stap
* Wota

### Further reading

* Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words
* Herman Rempel's Plautdietsch Dictionary

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian bām, from Proto-West Germanic *baum. Cognates include West Frisian beam and German Baum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boːm/
* Hyphenation: Boom
* Rhymes: -oːm

### Noun

Boom m (plural Bome)
* tree

#### Derived terms

* Stomboom

### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “Boom”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN