drom

From Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).

drom ?

1. highway

• xhade

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?)

• IPA^(key): /drɔm/

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• Hyphenation: drom
• Rhymes: -ɔm

drom m (plural drommen, no diminutive)

1. flock (of people), throng, crowd

• meute

• bijendrom

• Afrikaans: drom

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

• (Waterford) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠəumˠ/^[1]
• (Cork) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠoumˠ/^[2]
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠɑumˠ/^[3]

drom m (genitive singular droma, nominative plural dromanna)

1. Munster form of droim

From English drum.

• IPA^(key): [dɰom]

drom

1. a membranophone
2. a large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage

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.

drōm m

1. joy, pleasure, ecstasy

   Drôm drohtines endi dagskīmon

   Joy of the lord and daylight

2. music, song
3. dream

   That he manno drôm ageƀen scolde

   That he should give the men's dream

• Middle Low German: drôm
  • Low German: Droom
    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dräum (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense? (is this Ravensbergisch or another Lippisch term? what's the source? — Lippisch (Korl Biegemann, Wilhelm Oesterhaus, kinder-lippe.de) has "Draum", see below.))

      Lippisch: Draum

      Sauerländisch: Dräom, Draum, Dreyem, Droum, Drōem

      Westmünsterländisch: Droom

  • Plautdietsch: Droom

• IPA^(key): /dɔkˈtɔ.rɔm/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔm

drom m pers

1. dative plural of dr

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek δρόμος (drómos, “road”).^[1][2]

drom m (nominative plural droma)

1. way,^[1][3][4] road^[1][3][4]

• Caló: dron