# pom
## English
### Alternative forms

* (Briton or Englishman): Pom

### Etymology

A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912 as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /pɒm/
* (US) IPA: /pɑm/
* (General Australian) IPA: /pɔm/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒm

### Noun

pom (plural poms)
* (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
** 1987, Linda Christmas, The Ribbon and the Ragged Square: An Australian Journey, page 27:I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.
** 1989, Tony Wheeler, Australia: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet, page 10:The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook.
** 2008, Lawrence Booth, Cricket, Lovely Cricket?, page 214:At one stage a group called British People Against Racial Discrimination complained to the Advertising Standards Board in Australia about an advert for Tooheys beer that claimed it was ‘cold enough to scare a Pom’.
* (cocktail) A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.

#### Usage notes

The term pom, pommy, etc. is sometimes considered an ethnic or racial slur within the Commonwealth, largely by British expatriates; however the advertising boards of both Australia and New Zealand reject this.

#### Synonyms

* (An Englishman or Briton): See Briton and Englishman

#### Derived terms

* pommy
* ten pound pom

#### See also

* kiwi, pompom, Yank

### See also

* pompom
* pom-pom
* pom-pom-pull-away
* tiddly-om-pom-pom

### References

* ↑ 1998, Roger Robinson, Nelson Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, page 445.
* ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22378819

### Anagrams

* MOP, MPO, OPM, PMO, mop

## Akatek
### Noun

pom
* copal

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* pomu

### Etymology

From Latin pōmus. Compare Daco-Romanian pom.

### Noun

pom m (plural ponj)
* fruit tree
* fruit

#### Related terms

* poamã
* pumet
* pumãrii

### See also

* arburi
* fructu

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pōmum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpom]

### Noun

pom m (plural poms)
* bunch, bouquet
    Synonym: ramell
* pommel, knob, doorknob
* a scent-bottle with a rounded shape
* (botany) pome
* (historical) orb (golden ball symbolising royal power)
    Synonyms: globus, món

#### Derived terms

* pom de dalt
* pomejat
* pomell

#### Related terms

* poma
* pòmul

### Further reading

* “pom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Chuj
### Noun

pom
* copal

## Galician
### Verb

pom
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of pôr:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Ladino
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

pom
* apple
    Synonym: mansana

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French pomme, from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”).

### Noun

pom
* apple

### References

* Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin pōmus. Compare Aromanian, Romanian pom.

### Noun

pom m
* fruit tree

#### See also

* arbur

## Rade
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pompe.

### Verb

pom
* to pump

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pōmus, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”), from *h₂epo (“off”) + *h₁em- (“take”). See pōmum.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pom m (plural pomi)
* fruit tree

#### Related terms

* poamă
* pomar
* pomet

### See also

* arbore
* copac

## Tzotzil
### Noun

pom
* copal

## White Hmong
### Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *bu̯ət (“to see”). Cognate with Iu Mien buatc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɒ˩̰/

### Verb

pom
* to see
* to tattle

### References

* Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land →ISBN, 2004)

## Yucatec Maya
### Noun

pom
* copal