fom

Clipping of English Foma.

fom

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Foma.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Foma terms

Inherited from Latin fūmus.

fom m (plural foms) (ORB, broad)

1. smoke

• fom in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 928: “il fumo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] – map 616 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fūmus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 852

• frum

From English from.

• IPA^(key): /foːm/, /fəm/

fom

1. from
2. of

• De Nyew Testament‎^[2], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025
• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

• IPA^(key): /fôm/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸâŋ]

fôm m

1. form

• fam, fome, foom, foome

From Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̝ːm/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /faːm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːm

fom (plural fomes)

1. foam (layer of bubbles associated with the sea)
   • a. 1333, Alcuin, “Poem 22: Quomodo se habet homo?; Fol. 204v”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎^[3], Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:

     Also þe lanterne in þe wynd þat sone is aqueynt, / Ase sparkle in þe se þat sone is adreynt, / Ase vom in þe strem þat sone is tothwith, / Ase smoke in þe lift þat passet oure sith.

     Like a lantern in the wind that soon gets quenched, / Like a glimmer in the sea that soon gets drenched / Like foam in the water that soon is dispersed, / Like smoke in the sky that passes [in] our sight.

2. Upward-floating detritus; dregs, residue.
3. The ocean (a large, open body of water)
4. (rare) spit, slobber (liquid emitted from the mouth, used in medieval medicine)

• fomen
• fomy
• fomynge

• English: foam
  • → Faroese: fómur
• Scots: fame, faim, faem

• “fōm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

• fam (Puter)

From Latin famēs.

fom f (usually uncountable)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) hunger

Borrowed from French forme.

fom (genitive foma, plural foms)

1. form
2. shape