# drom
## Albanian
### Etymology

From Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).

### Noun

drom ?
* highway

#### Synonyms

* xhade

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch droom, from Proto-Germanic *þrumi, *dramjan, related to *þrumjaz (“disturbance, violence”). See also Old Saxon drom, Old English þrymm. (Can this etymology be sourced?)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɔm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: drom
* Rhymes: -ɔm

### Noun

drom m (plural drommen)
* flock (of people), throng, crowd

#### Synonyms

* meute

#### Derived terms

* bijendrom

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: drom

### Further reading

* van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “drom1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Cork) IPA: /d̪ˠɾˠoumˠ/
* (Waterford) IPA: /d̪ˠɾˠəumˠ/

### Noun

drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)
* Alternative form of droim

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From English drum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dɰom]

### Noun

drom
* a membranophone
* a large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old English drēam (“joy, music, dream”), Old Frisian drām, Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.

### Noun

drōm m
* joy, pleasure, ecstasy
    Drôm drohtines endi dagskîmonJoy of the lord and daylight
* music, song
* dream
    That he manno drôm ageƀen scoldeThat he should give the men's dream

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: drōm
** Low German: Droom
*** Westphalian:
    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum (Can we clean up this sense?)
    Lippisch: Draum
    Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem
    Westmünsterländisch: Droom
** Plautdietsch: Droom

## Romani
### Etymology

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).

### Noun

drom m (nominative plural droma)
* way, road

#### Descendants

* Caló: dron

### References

* 1 2 3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “drom”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 77b
* ↑ Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 101
* 1 2 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o drom, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 132ab
* 1 2 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “drom, ～a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148a