rum

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɹʌm/
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• Northern-England: /ɹʊm/
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• Scotland, Wales: /ɾʌm/
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From the earlier form rome (“good”, slang); possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.

From Middle English and Old English, from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu, from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō under influence from Late Latin Rōma (“Rome; Constantinople; Roman Empire”), from Latin Rōma (“Rome”).

From Seljuk Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish روم (Rum, “Rome; Byzantine Empire; central Anatolia”), from Arabic رُوم (Rūm, “Rome; Byzantine Empire”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (Hrom), from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía, “Byzantine Empire”), from Latin Romani (“Romans”), from Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Roma and Rome.

In common use since at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include: * that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, names for rum also attested in the Caribbean during the mid-17th century, * that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer, * that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (however, these drinks were not originally made with rum), * that it derives from rum ("fine, good") or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, this origin is now considered unlikely)

Shortening of rummy.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rum — distilled spirit
• Arabic: رَم (ram) — distilled spirit
• Armenian: ռոմ (ṙom) — distilled spirit
• Asturian: ron — distilled spirit
• Azerbaijani: rom — distilled spirit
• Belarusian: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Bengali: রাম (ram) — distilled spirit
• Bulgarian: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Burmese: ရမ် (ram) — distilled spirit
• Catalan: rom — distilled spirit
• Chinese Cantonese: 冧酒 (lam1 zau2) — distilled spirit
• Chinese Mandarin: 蘭姆酒 /兰姆酒 (lánmǔjiǔ) — distilled spirit
• Chinese Mandarin: 萊姆酒 /莱姆酒 (láimǔjiǔ) — distilled spirit
• Chinese Mandarin: 朗姆酒 (lǎngmǔjiǔ) — distilled spirit
• Cornish: romm — distilled spirit
• Czech: rum — distilled spirit
• Danish: rom — distilled spirit
• Dutch: rum — distilled spirit
• Esperanto: rumo — distilled spirit
• Estonian: rumm — distilled spirit
• Faroese: romm — distilled spirit
• Finnish: rommi — distilled spirit
• French: rhum — distilled spirit
• Galician: ron — distilled spirit
• Georgian: რომი (romi) — distilled spirit
• German: Rum — distilled spirit
• Greek: ρούμι (roúmi) — distilled spirit
• Hebrew: רום (rom) — distilled spirit
• Hindi: रम (ram) — distilled spirit
• Hungarian: rum — distilled spirit
• Icelandic: romm — distilled spirit
• Irish: rum — distilled spirit
• Italian: rum — distilled spirit
• Japanese: ラム (ramu) — distilled spirit
• Japanese: ラム酒 (ramu-shu) — distilled spirit
• Kazakh: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Khmer: ស្រាអំពៅ (sraaʼɑmpɨw) — distilled spirit
• Khmer: ស្រារ៉ូម (sraa roum) — distilled spirit
• Korean: 럼 (reom) — distilled spirit
• Korean: 럼주 (reomju) — distilled spirit
• Kyrgyz: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Lao: ເຫລົ້າອ້ອຍ (lao ʼǭi) — distilled spirit
• Latvian: rums — distilled spirit
• Lithuanian: romas — distilled spirit
• Macedonian: рум (rum) — distilled spirit
• Malay: rum — distilled spirit
• Manx: rum — distilled spirit
• Māori: rama — distilled spirit
• Neapolitan: rùmma — distilled spirit
• Norman: rhunme — distilled spirit
• Norwegian Bokmål: rom — distilled spirit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rom — distilled spirit
• Occitan: ròm — distilled spirit
• Persian: رم (rom) — distilled spirit
• Polish: rum — distilled spirit
• Portuguese: rum — distilled spirit
• Réunion Creole French: rim — distilled spirit
• Romanian: rom — distilled spirit
• Russian: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Serbo-Croatian: рум — distilled spirit
• Serbo-Croatian: rum — distilled spirit
• Sicilian: rummu — distilled spirit
• Slovak: rum — distilled spirit
• Slovene: rum — distilled spirit
• Spanish: ron — distilled spirit
• Spanish: romo — distilled spirit
• Swedish: rom — distilled spirit
• Tagalog: ron — distilled spirit
• Tajik: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Telugu: రమ్ము (rammu) — distilled spirit
• Thai: เหล้ารัม (lâo ram) — distilled spirit
• Thai: รัม (ram) — distilled spirit
• Thai: เหล้า (lâo) — distilled spirit
• Turkish: rom — distilled spirit
• Ukrainian: ром (rom) — distilled spirit
• Urdu: رم (ram) — distilled spirit
• Uzbek: rom — distilled spirit
• Vietnamese: rượu rum — distilled spirit
• Vietnamese: rum — distilled spirit
• Welsh: rym — distilled spirit
• Zulu: ulwamu class 1a/2a — distilled spirit
• Finnish: rommi — serving
• Romanian: rom — serving
• Bulgarian: ром (rom) — kind or brand
• Finnish: rommi — kind or brand
• Romanian: rom — kind or brand