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• homophone: gome
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• New-England, obsolete: /ɡʊm/
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* As an English and German surname, variant of Gumm. * As a north/Low German surname, from Old Saxon gumo (“man”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 甘 (gān) (Gan).

From Middle English gom, gome, gomme, goome, gum, gume, gumme, from Old English gōma (“palate”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōmō, from Proto-Germanic *gaumô, *gōmô (“palate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵheh2- (“to gape, yawn”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gaumo (“palate”), German Gaum, Gaumen (“palate”), Luxembourgish Gomm, Gumm (“palate”), Yiddish גומען (gumen, “palate”), Danish gumme (“gums”), Icelandic gómur (“gum”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish gom (“palate”); also Latin hio (“to gape, yawn”), Ancient Greek χάσκω (kháskō, “to gape, yawn”), Lithuanian gomurỹs (“palate”), Bulgarian зе́я (zéja, “to gape”), Czech zát, zet (“to gape”), Polish ziać (“to pant”), Russian зия́ть (zijátʹ, “to gape, yawn”), Serbo-Croatian зи́јати, zíjati (“to gape, yawn”), Ukrainian зя́яти (zjájaty, “to gape”), Tocharian A koy- (“mouth”), Tocharian B koyn (“mouth”). More at yawn.

From Middle English gomme, gumme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome, from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”). Cognate with Spanish goma (“rubber”). Doublet of gumma.

231 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: tandvleis — flesh around teeth
• Albanian: nullë — flesh around teeth
• Albanian: nullëz — flesh around teeth
• Albanian: gingivë — flesh around teeth
• Southern Altai: бӱӱле (büüle) — flesh around teeth
• Southern Altai: саҥыс (saŋïs) — flesh around teeth
• Southern Altai: тиш эт (tiš et) — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: لِثَة (liṯa) — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: لَثَة (laṯa) — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: لثة (lesa) — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: لثة (liṯṯa) — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: لثة (liṯṯa) — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: لتة (latta) — flesh around teeth
• Aragonese: cheniva — flesh around teeth
• Aragonese: geniva — flesh around teeth
• Aramaic: ܕܘܼܪܵܐ ܕܫܸܢܢܹܐ (dūrā dəšennēʾ) — flesh around teeth
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: דּוּר שֶׁנֵּי (dur shennē) — flesh around teeth
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: דּרָרָא (dərārā) — flesh around teeth
• Armenian: լինդ (lind) — flesh around teeth
• Aromanian: dzindzie — flesh around teeth
• Aromanian: dzindzii — flesh around teeth
• Asturian: enxiva — flesh around teeth
• Asturian: xenxiva — flesh around teeth
• Azerbaijani: diş əti — flesh around teeth
• West Coast Bajau: isi impon — flesh around teeth
• Basque: oi — flesh around teeth
• Belarusian: дзясна́ (dzjasná) — flesh around teeth
• Bau Bidayuh: dode — flesh around teeth
• Central Bikol: ngaros — flesh around teeth
• Bulgarian: вене́ц (venéc) — flesh around teeth
• Burmese: သွားဖုံး (swa:hpum:) — flesh around teeth
• Catalan: geniva — flesh around teeth
• Cebuano: lagos — flesh around teeth
• Chavacano: encia — flesh around teeth
• Chichewa: nkhama — flesh around teeth
• Chinese Mandarin: 齒齦 /齿龈 (chǐyín) — flesh around teeth
• Chinese Mandarin: 牙齦 /牙龈 (yáyín) — flesh around teeth
• Chinese Mandarin: 齦 /龈 (yín) — flesh around teeth
• Cornish: kig dens — flesh around teeth
• Czech: dáseň — flesh around teeth
• Danish: tandkød — flesh around teeth
• Danish: gumme — flesh around teeth
• Central Dusun: monsis — flesh around teeth
• Dutch: tandvlees — flesh around teeth
• Esperanto: gingivo — flesh around teeth
• Estonian: ige — flesh around teeth
• Faroese: tannhald — flesh around teeth
• Faroese: tannhold — flesh around teeth
• Faroese: tannkjøt — flesh around teeth
• Finnish: ikenet — flesh around teeth
• French: gencive — flesh around teeth
• West-Frisian: toskfleis — flesh around teeth
• Friulian: zenzie — flesh around teeth
• Galician: enxiva — flesh around teeth
• Georgian: სასა (sasa) — flesh around teeth
• Georgian: ღრძილი (ɣrʒili) — flesh around teeth
• German: Zahnfleisch — flesh around teeth
• German: Billere — flesh around teeth
• Greek: ούλο (oúlo) — flesh around teeth
• Ancient Greek: οὖλον (oûlon) — flesh around teeth
• Hebrew: חניכיים — flesh around teeth
• Hebrew: חֲנִיכַיִם (khanikháyim) — flesh around teeth
• Hiligaynon: lasi — flesh around teeth
• Hindi: मसूड़ा (masūṛā) — flesh around teeth
• Hungarian: íny — flesh around teeth
• Hungarian: fogíny — flesh around teeth
• Icelandic: tannhold — flesh around teeth
• Ido: jenjivo — flesh around teeth
• Indonesian: gusi — flesh around teeth
• Ingrian: ien — flesh around teeth
• Interlingua: gingiva — flesh around teeth
• Inuktitut: ᐃᒃᑭᖅ (ikkiq) — flesh around teeth
• Irish: drandal — flesh around teeth
• Irish: carball — flesh around teeth
• Irish: mant — flesh around teeth
• Italian: gengiva — flesh around teeth
• Japanese: 齦 (haguki) — flesh around teeth
• Japanese: 歯茎 (haguki) — flesh around teeth
• Japanese: 歯齦 (shigin) — flesh around teeth
• Japanese: 歯肉 — flesh around teeth
• Javanese: ꦒꦸꦱꦶ (gusi) — flesh around teeth
• Kazakh: қызыл иек (qyzyl iek) — flesh around teeth
• Kazakh: тістің ет (tıstıñ et) — flesh around teeth
• Khmer: ជើងធ្មេញ (cəəng thmɨñ) — flesh around teeth
• Kimaragang: ngonsis — flesh around teeth
• Korean: 잇몸 (inmom) — flesh around teeth
• Central Kurdish: پووک (pûk) — flesh around teeth
• Northern Kurdish: pidû — flesh around teeth
• Northern Kurdish: pidî — flesh around teeth
• Kyrgyz: бүйлө (büylö) — flesh around teeth
• Lao: ເຫງືອກ (ngư̄ak) — flesh around teeth
• Lao: ຟັນ (fan) — flesh around teeth
• Latgalian: muzlys — flesh around teeth
• Latin: gingīva — flesh around teeth
• Latvian: smaganas — flesh around teeth
• Lithuanian: dantenos — flesh around teeth
• Lombard: zenziva — flesh around teeth
• Lotud: monsis — flesh around teeth
• Lü: ᦵᦄᦲᧅ (ṅgoek) — flesh around teeth
• Luxembourgish: Zännfleesch — flesh around teeth
• Macedonian: десни (desni) — flesh around teeth
• Malay: gusi — flesh around teeth
• Manchu: ᡠᠮᠠᠨ (uman) — flesh around teeth
• Mansaka: goos — flesh around teeth
• Central Melanau: nyip — flesh around teeth
• Central Melanau: dadan — flesh around teeth
• Mongolian: буйл (bujl) — flesh around teeth
• Tagal Murut: sinsilon — flesh around teeth
• Timugon Murut: sinsilon — flesh around teeth
• Navajo: awótsíín — flesh around teeth
• Nepali: गिजा (gijā) — flesh around teeth
• Norman: denchive — flesh around teeth
• Norwegian Bokmål: tannkjøtt — flesh around teeth
• Occitan: gengiva — flesh around teeth
• Persian: لثه (lase) — flesh around teeth
• Persian: اروک (aruk) — flesh around teeth
• Persian: آروک (âruk) — flesh around teeth
• Persian: زیه (ziye) — flesh around teeth
• Persian: ارک — flesh around teeth
• Polish: dziąsło — flesh around teeth
• Polish: dziąsła — flesh around teeth
• Portuguese: gengiva — flesh around teeth
• Romanian: gingie — flesh around teeth
• Romansh: schunschiva — flesh around teeth
• Rungus: ngonsis — flesh around teeth
• Russian: десна́ (desná) — flesh around teeth
• Sabah Bisaya: sinsilon — flesh around teeth
• Sardinian: ghinghía — flesh around teeth
• Sardinian: benzía — flesh around teeth
• Sardinian: sénsia — flesh around teeth
• Serbo-Croatian: де̑сни — flesh around teeth
• Serbo-Croatian: dȇsni — flesh around teeth
• Sicilian: gingili — flesh around teeth
• Sicilian: cincili — flesh around teeth
• Sicilian: zinzìa — flesh around teeth
• Slovak: ďasno — flesh around teeth
• Slovene: dlésen — flesh around teeth
• Lower Sorbian: źěsna — flesh around teeth
• Upper Sorbian: dźasna — flesh around teeth
• Spanish: encía — flesh around teeth
• Swahili: ufizi — flesh around teeth
• Swedish: tandkött — flesh around teeth
• Tagalog: gilagid — flesh around teeth
• Tajik: вора (vora) — flesh around teeth
• Tajik: милки дандон (milk-i dandon) — flesh around teeth
• Thai: เหงือก (ngʉ̀ʉak) — flesh around teeth
• Turkish: diş eti — flesh around teeth
• Ottoman Turkish: دیش اتی (diş eti) — flesh around teeth
• Turkmen: diş eti — flesh around teeth
• Ukrainian: я́сна (jásna) — flesh around teeth
• Urdu: مَسُوڑھا (masūṛhā) — flesh around teeth
• Uzbek: milk — flesh around teeth
• Venetan: zinzìva — flesh around teeth
• Venetan: zenzìva — flesh around teeth
• Venetan: xenxìva — flesh around teeth
• Vietnamese: nướu — flesh around teeth
• Vietnamese: lợi — flesh around teeth
• Volapük: gingif — flesh around teeth
• Waray-Waray: lagos — flesh around teeth
• Welsh: deintgig — flesh around teeth
• Welsh: gorcharfan — flesh around teeth
• Arabic: صَمْغ (ṣamḡ) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Armenian: խեժ (xež) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Bulgarian: смола (smola) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Bulgarian: клей (klej) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Choctaw: hika — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Danish: gummi — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Esperanto: gumo — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Estonian: vaik — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Estonian: kummi — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• French: gomme — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Galician: goma — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Galician: resina — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• German: Kautschuk — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ancient Greek: κόμμι (kómmi) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ancient Greek: γλοιός (gloiós) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Irish: guma — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Khmer: ជ័រឈើ (coa chəə) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Malay: getah — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Māori: pia — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Māori: ware — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Old English: teoru — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Old English: trēowteoru — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Persian: انگم (angom) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Portuguese: resina — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Russian: камедь (kamedʹ) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Russian: смола (smola) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Sanskrit: निर्यास (niryāsa) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Sanskrit: द्रव्य (dravya) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Spanish: goma — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Swedish: gummi — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Tagalog: kalamak — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Thai: ยาง (yaang) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Turkish: kauçuk — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Turkish: zamk — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ottoman Turkish: ساقز (sakız) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ottoman Turkish: رچینه (reçine) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ottoman Turkish: راتینج (ratinec) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ukrainian: камедь (kamedʹ) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Ukrainian: ґлей (glej) — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Welsh: gwm — sticky substance exuded by certain plants
• Armenian: խեժ (xež) — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Danish: syntetgummi — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Esperanto: gumo — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• French: gomme — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Irish: guma — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Thai: ยาง (yaang) — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Thai: กาว (gaao) — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Turkish: kauçuk — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Welsh: gwm — sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants
• Arabic: عِلْكَة (ʕilka) — single piece of chewing gum
• Arabic: لُبَانة (lubāna) — single piece of chewing gum
• Armenian: ծամոն (camon) — single piece of chewing gum
• Bulgarian: дъвка (dǎvka) — single piece of chewing gum
• Chinese Mandarin: 口香糖 (kǒuxiāngtáng) — single piece of chewing gum
• Danish: tyggegummi — single piece of chewing gum
• Estonian: näts — single piece of chewing gum
• French: chewing-gum — single piece of chewing gum
• Galician: goma de mascar — single piece of chewing gum
• German: Kaugummi — single piece of chewing gum
• Portuguese: chiclete — single piece of chewing gum
• Portuguese: goma de mascar — single piece of chewing gum
• Russian: жвачка (žvačka) — single piece of chewing gum
• Slovak: žuvačka — single piece of chewing gum
• Spanish: chicle — single piece of chewing gum
• Swedish: tuggummi — single piece of chewing gum
• Thai: หมากฝรั่ง (màak-fà-ràng) — single piece of chewing gum
• Ukrainian: жуйка (žujka) — single piece of chewing gum
• Ukrainian: гумка (humka) — single piece of chewing gum
• Norwegian Nynorsk: mumpa — to chew by using gums
• Russian: жамкать (žamkatʹ) — to chew by using gums