zum

zum

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kumzari terms

A contraction of zu + dem or zu + einem. Compare Dutch ten.

• IPA^(key): /tsuːm/, /tsʊm/

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zum (+ optional adjective(s) ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

1. contraction of zu +‎ dem, literally “to the; for the”
2. contraction of zu +‎ einem, literally “to a; for a”

Compare German zum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡suːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm
• Syllabification: zum

zum

1. contraction of zu +‎ dem, literally “to the”

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “zum”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 182

From English zoom.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈzum/ [ˈzum]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: zum

zum

1. to zoom

   Synonyms: perbesar, keker

• “zum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *yum (“sharp”).

zum

1. sharp

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *yum (“shy”).

zum

1. shy

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “zum”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

• IPA^(key): /tsʊm/

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zum (+ optional adjective(s) ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

1. to or for the (contraction of zu + dem)
2. to or for a (contraction of zu + einem)

zum

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of something rushing by

zum m (plural zuns)

1. rare spelling of zoom

• “zum”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “zum”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Onomatopoeic.

zum

1. zoom; a humming sound made by an insect's flight

zum m (plural zums)

1. rare spelling of zoom

• “zum”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

zum (Sundanese script ᮐᮥᮙ᮪)

1. zoom

zum

1. alternative form of zim
   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX:

     Fad didn'st thou cum t' ouz on zum other dey?

     [Why didn't you come to us on some other day?]

• 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 131