Bloom

English and Jewish surname converged from several origins:

• Middle English blom (“ingot”), from Old English blōma (“lump of iron”)
• Swedish Blom
• Dutch Bloem, see bloem (“flower”)
• Spelling variant of Blum

• IPA^(key): /bluːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Bloom

1. A surname.
   • 2023 June 24, Chris Lau and Sara Smart, “‘That could’ve been us,’ say father and son who pulled out of doomed Titan trip out of safety concerns”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”.

2. A place in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado.
   2. An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas.
   3. A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
   4. A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Kansas (2 or 3), Minnesota, Ohio (5), and Pennsylvania, listed under Bloom Township.

• Bloomsday

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bloom”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 175.

From Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō. Akin to German Blume, Dutch bloem, Dutch Low Saxon bloom, English bloom, Danish blomme, Swedish blomma; also compare Latin flōs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbloʊm/

Bloom f (plural Blomen or Blööm)

1. (botany) flower; blossom; bloom

   Insekten hölpt Blomen bi de Reprodukschoon.

   Insects help blooms with reproduction.

   De brede Varietät an Blomensoorten faszineer de Minschen al lang.

   The broad variety of flowersorts has long fascinated Man.

2. (chemistry) efflorescence
3. (heraldry) flower

   Blomen sind faken en Bestanddeel vun Symbolen op Flaggen un Wapens.

   Flowers are often a building block of symbols on flags and coats of arms.

   De Bloom, wölke England symboliseert, is de rode Roos.

   The flower that symbolizes England is the red rose.

4. (hunting) tail, scut (of a hare)
5. nose, bouquet (of a wine)

• Blomenstruuß
• Blomenstrüüschen
• Blöömken

• Blatt n
• blöhen
• Blööt f

• bluum (Föhr-Amrum)
• blööm (Mooring)

From Old Frisian blōma, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō. Cognates include West Frisian blom.

Bloom m (plural blööme)

1. (Sylt) flower

From Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō.

Bloom f (plural Bloomen)

1. flower, bloom

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words