rum

rum (nominative singular)
rumy (nominative plural)
rumu (genitive singular)
rumů (genitive plural)
rumu (dative singular)
rumům (dative plural)
rum (accusative singular)
rumy (accusative plural)
rume (singular vocative)
rumy (plural vocative)
rumu (locative singular)
rumech (locative plural)
rumem (instrumental singular)
rumy (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from German Rum, from English rum, originally rumbullion.


rum

De fravalgte at udforske rummet.

rumfarttøj (“space vehicle”), rumrejse (“space travel”)

(chiefly definite) space (the universe except Earth and its atmosphere)

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rum n (singular definite rummet, plural indefinite rum)

rummet (definite singular)
rum (indefinite plural)
rum (indefinite nominative singular)
rummet (definite nominative singular)
rum (indefinite nominative plural)
rummene (definite nominative plural)
rums (genitive indefinite singular)
rummets (definite genitive singular)
rums (genitive indefinite plural)
rummenes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse rúm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room, open space”), cognate with English room, German Raum, Dutch ruim, Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼 (rum).


rum

in the modern language only in the expressions i rum sø (“in open sea”) and rum tid (“long time”)

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rum (neuter rumt, plural and definite singular attributive rumme)

rumt (neuter)
rumme (attributive definite singular)
rumme (attributive plural)
rum (positive)
rummere (comparative)
rummest (superlative)
rumt (positive)
rumme (plural positive)
rummere (comparative plural)
rummest (plural superlative)
rumme (positive)
rummeste (superlative)

From Old Norse rúmr, from Proto-Germanic *rūmaz (“roomy, spacious, open”), cognate with English room (archaic), German raum (archaic), Dutch ruim, Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃 (rums). Related to the noun.


rum

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


rum

Negerhollands: roem, rum


rum

Jake tossed down three rums.

(uncountable) A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.

Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.

The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.

Coordinate term: grog

(obsolete, slang) A strange person or thing.

No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.

1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:

en-noun

rum (countable and uncountable, plural rums)

Tok Pisin: ram

→ Asturian: ron

→ Belarusian: ром (rom)

→ Burmese: ရမ် (ram)

→ Catalan: rom

→ Chinese: 萊姆 /莱姆 (láimǔ)

→ Dutch: rum

→ French: rhum

→ Gamilaraay: yurraamu

→ German: Rum

→ Czech: rum

→ Hungarian: rum

→ Irish: rum

→ Hindi: रम (ram)

→ Urdu: رَم (ram)

→ Italian: rhum, rum

→ Japanese: ラム (ramu)

→ Korean: 럼 (reom)

→ Maori: rama

→ Mongolian: ром (rom)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: rom

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: rom

→ Polish: rum

→ Portuguese: rum

→ Romanian: rom (via French and German)

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→ Russian: ром (rom), ромъ (rom) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: ռոմ (ṙom)
→ Bulgarian: ром (rom)
→ Georgian: რომი (romi)

⇒ Spanish: romo; → ron

→ Telugu: రమ్ము (rammu)

→ Thai: รัม (ram)

→ Ukrainian: ром (rom)

→ Zulu: ulwamu

In common use since by at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include:
* that it derives from rum (“fine, good”), or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, the first theory is now considered unlikely),
* that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, or
* that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (but these drinks were not originally made with rum)
* that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer


rum

having a rum time

a rum idea; a rum fellow

"Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

[H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 27, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

The young men had exchanged few observations; but in crossing Union Square, in front of the monument to Washington—in the very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the pater patriae—one of them remarked to the other, “It seems a rum-looking place.”
“Ah, very odd, very odd,” said the other, who was the clever man of the two.

1878, Henry James, An International Episode:

"Can't you see him?"
"Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light."

"She's as 'appy as Larry, but she'll neither move nor eat. It's a rum 'un, isn't it?" It was very rum indeed.

1976, James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful, page 346:

(UK, informal, dated) Strange, peculiar.

en-adj

rum (comparative rummer, superlative rummest)

rummer (comparative)
rummest (superlative)

From the earlier form rome (“good”, slang); possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.


rum

(British, colloquial, dated) Any odd person or thing.


rum

(colloquial) Alternative form of herum (“around”)

From dialectal German (e)rum, reduced form of herum and in some dialects darum.


rum

rumok (plural)
rum (nominative singular)
rumok (nominative plural)
rumot (accusative singular)
rumokat (accusative plural)
rumnak (dative singular)
rumoknak (dative plural)
rummal (instrumental singular)
rumokkal (instrumental plural)
rumért (causal-final singular)
rumokért (causal-final plural)
rummá (singular translative)
rumokká (plural translative)
rumig (singular terminative)
rumokig (plural terminative)
rumként (essive-formal singular)
rumokként (essive-formal plural)
rumban (inessive singular)
rumokban (inessive plural)
rumon (singular superessive)
rumokon (plural superessive)
rumnál (adessive singular)
rumoknál (adessive plural)
rumba (illative singular)
rumokba (illative plural)
rumra (singular sublative)
rumokra (plural sublative)
rumhoz (allative singular)
rumokhoz (allative plural)
rumból (elative singular)
rumokból (elative plural)
rumról (delative singular)
rumokról (delative plural)
rumtól (ablative singular)
rumoktól (ablative plural)
rumé (singular)
rumoké (plural)
ruméi (singular)
rumokéi (plural)
rumom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
rumjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
rumod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
rumjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
rumja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
rumjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
rumunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
rumjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
rumotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
rumjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
rumjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
rumjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Rum, from English rum.


rum

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rum m (genitive singular rum, nominative plural rumanna)

rum (genitive singular)
rumanna (nominative plural)
rum (indefinite nominative singular)
rumanna (indefinite nominative plural)
a rum (indefinite singular vocative)
a rumanna (indefinite plural vocative)
rum (genitive indefinite singular)
rumanna (genitive indefinite plural)
rum (dative indefinite singular)
rumanna (dative indefinite plural)
an rum (definite nominative singular)
na rumanna (definite nominative plural)
an rum (definite genitive singular)
na rumanna (definite genitive plural)
leis an rum (dative definite singular)
don rum (dative definite singular)
leis na rumanna (dative definite plural)


rum

Etymology tree
German Low German Ruumbor.
Kashubian rum
Borrowed from German Low German Ruum.


rum

rumk (diminutive)
rum (nominative singular)
ruma (dual nominative)
rumy (nominative plural)
ruma (genitive singular)
rumowu (dual genitive)
rumow (genitive plural)
rumoju (dative singular)
rumoma (dative dual)
rumam (dative plural)
rum (accusative singular)
ruma (accusative dual)
rumy (accusative plural)
rumom (instrumental singular)
rumoma (dual instrumental)
rumami (instrumental plural)
rumje (locative singular)
rumoma (dual locative)
rumach (locative plural)

Borrowed from German Low German Ruum, from Middle Low German rûm, Old Saxon rūm, from Proto-West Germanic *rūm.


rum

liberal, extensive, ample, abundant, bountiful, expansive, generous

rūm (canonical)
rūm (masculine nominative singular)
rūm (feminine nominative singular)
rūm (neuter nominative singular)
rūmne (accusative masculine singular)
rūme (accusative feminine singular)
rūm (accusative neuter singular)
rūmes (genitive masculine singular)
rūmre (feminine genitive singular)
rūmes (genitive neuter singular)
rūmum (dative masculine singular)
rūmre (dative feminine singular)
rūmum (dative neuter singular)
rūme (instrumental masculine singular)
rūmre (feminine instrumental singular)
rūme (instrumental neuter singular)
rūme (masculine nominative plural)
rūma (feminine nominative plural)
rūme (feminine nominative plural)
rūm (neuter nominative plural)
rūme (accusative masculine plural)
rūma (accusative feminine plural)
rūme (accusative feminine plural)
rūm (accusative neuter plural)
rūmra (genitive masculine plural)
rūmra (feminine genitive plural)
rūmra (genitive neuter plural)
rūmum (dative masculine plural)
rūmum (dative feminine plural)
rūmum (dative neuter plural)
rūmum (instrumental masculine plural)
rūmum (feminine instrumental plural)
rūmum (instrumental neuter plural)
rūma (masculine nominative singular)
rūme (feminine nominative singular)
rūme (neuter nominative singular)
rūman (accusative masculine singular)
rūman (accusative feminine singular)
rūme (accusative neuter singular)
rūman (genitive masculine singular)
rūman (feminine genitive singular)
rūman (genitive neuter singular)
rūman (dative masculine singular)
rūman (dative feminine singular)
rūman (dative neuter singular)
rūman (instrumental masculine singular)
rūman (feminine instrumental singular)
rūman (instrumental neuter singular)
rūman (masculine nominative plural)
rūman (feminine nominative plural)
rūman (neuter nominative plural)
rūman (accusative masculine plural)
rūman (accusative feminine plural)
rūman (accusative neuter plural)
rūmra (genitive masculine plural)
rūmena (genitive masculine plural)
rūmra (feminine genitive plural)
rūmena (feminine genitive plural)
rūmra (genitive neuter plural)
rūmena (genitive neuter plural)
rūmum (dative masculine plural)
rūmum (dative feminine plural)
rūmum (dative neuter plural)
rūmum (instrumental masculine plural)
rūmum (feminine instrumental plural)
rūmum (instrumental neuter plural)

From Proto-West Germanic *rūm. Cognate with Old Saxon rūm, Dutch ruim, Old High German rūm, Old Norse rúmr, Gothic 𐍂𐌿𐌼𐍃 (rums).


rum

rūm (canonical masculine neuter)
rūm (nominative singular)
rūm (nominative plural)
rūm (accusative singular)
rūm (accusative plural)
rūmes (genitive singular)
rūma (genitive plural)
rūme (dative singular)
rūmum (dative plural)
rūm (nominative singular)
rūmas (nominative plural)
rūm (accusative singular)
rūmas (accusative plural)
rūmes (genitive singular)
rūma (genitive plural)
rūme (dative singular)
rūmum (dative plural)

Middle English: roum, roume

English: room


rum

(archaic, geology) broken debris, rock crumbs

rum (nominative singular)
rumy (nominative plural)
rumu (genitive singular)
rumów (genitive plural)
rumowi (dative singular)
rumom (dative plural)
rum (accusative singular)
rumy (accusative plural)
rumem (instrumental singular)
rumami (instrumental plural)
rumie (locative singular)
rumach (locative plural)
rumie (singular vocative)
rumy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Middle High German rūm, roum, from Old High German rūm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą.


rum

Jag vill ha en lägenhet med två rum

Har du rum i din väska så att du kan lägga ner min bok också?

Do you have room in your bag so that you could put my book in it too?

det kröka rummet

vektorrum

rum (indefinite nominative singular)
rums (genitive indefinite singular)
rummet (definite nominative singular)
rummets (definite genitive singular)
rum (indefinite nominative plural)
rums (genitive indefinite plural)
rummen (definite nominative plural)
rummens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse rúm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą, from Proto-Indo-European *rowǝ-.


rum

(international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Romanian.