# gom
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).

#### Alternative forms

* gawm

#### Noun

gom (plural goms)
* (Ireland) A foolish person.
** 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack, Dublin: M.H. Gill, page 139:“ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”
** 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, act II, page 137:Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.
** 2007, John Maher, The Luck Penny, page 145:And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.
** 2013, Outrageous Pride, →ISBN:He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]
** 2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy, →ISBN:"Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"

### Etymology 2

Variant of gum.

#### Noun

gom (plural goms)
* (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
** 1911, “Why moles have hands”, in Marshall Pinckney Wilder, editor, The Wit and Humor of America, page 206:ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.

### Etymology 3

Minced oath.

#### Interjection

gom
* (obsolete, euphemistic) God!
** 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:
    There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,
** 1829, “The Humours of Vauxhall”, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164:O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!
** 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:"l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."
** 1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224:Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."

### Anagrams

* GMO, O. M. G., O.M.G., OMG, mog, omg

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /χɔm/

### Noun

gom (uncountable)
* Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *culumus.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

gom
* Only used in de gom a gom

### Further reading

* “gom” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “gom”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* gum

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣɔm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gom
* Rhymes: -ɔm

#### Noun

gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)
* gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically
* an object made from gum
* (now Belgium) Alternative form of gum (“eraser”)

##### Derived terms

* gomachtig
* gombal
* gomboom
* gomelastiek
* gomhars
* gomlak
* kauwgom
* uitgommen

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: gom
* → Indonesian: gom
* → Japanese: ゴム
* → Makasar: hong (“eraser”)
* → Papiamentu: gòm, gom

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

gom
* inflection of gommen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch gom (“gum”), from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈɡom/ [ˈɡom]
* Rhymes: -om
* Syllabification: gom

### Noun

gom (plural gom-gom)
* gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

### Further reading

* “gom” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

gom
* Alternative form of gome (“man”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gom
* Alternative form of gome (“regard”)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

gom
* Alternative form of gumme

## Northern Kurdish
### Alternative forms

* gov

### Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian գոմ (gom).

### Noun

gom f
* sty, fold, pen; sheepfold

#### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “գոմ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 575a
* Asatrjan, G. (1986) “О ранних арменизмах в курдском [On Early Armenian Loan-Words in Kurdish]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎ (in Russian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 171–172
* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “gom”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume I, London: Transnational Press, page 275ab
* Jaba, Auguste, Justi, Ferdinand (1879) Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 371a

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* gomme (dialectal)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse gómr, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô

### Noun

gom m (definite singular gommen, indefinite plural gommar, definite plural gommane)
* palate
    Synonym: gane
* gum (flesh around the roots of teeth)
    Synonym: tannkjøt(t)

#### Derived terms

* fingergom

## Rohingya
### Verb

gom
* good

## Swedish
### Noun

gom c
* a palate (roof of the mouth)

#### Derived terms

* gomsegel (“soft palate”)
* gomspalt (“cleft palate”)
* gomspene (“uvula”)
* hård gom (“hard palate”)
* läckergom (“gourmet”)
* mjuk gom (“soft palate”)

### References

* gom in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* gom in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* gom in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Svensk MeSH

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Proto-Austroasiatic *kom (“to gather, to associate”). Cognate with Bahnar akŏm/akŭm (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ကောံ (kɒm, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ចង្កោម (cɑngkaom, “bunch”).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ɣɔm˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ɣɔm˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɣɔm˧˧]

### Verb

gom • (搛, 𡗄)
* to gather together

#### Derived terms

* gom giữ
* gom góp
* thu gom

## Yola
### Etymology

Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɔm/

### Noun

gom
* fool, idiot
    Synonyms: stouck, clouk, pomeale, dhonal

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42