tom

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• Received-Pronunciation: /tɒm/
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• General-American: /tɑm/
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• rhymes with -ɒm
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Etymology tree Aramaic תאמא Aramaic תאומאbor. Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor. Latin Thōmāsbor. Middle English Thomas Middle English Thomme English Tom From Middle English Thomme. Hypocorism of Thomas. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Thomas Jefferson featured on it.

Possibly onomatopoeia, conflated with the given name, given the practice of giving objects such as Big Ben human names. Alternatively, it may derive from an inscription on the old bell used as metal to make the Great Tom of Oxford in 1680: In Thomæ laude resono bim bom sine fraude.

Etymology tree Aramaic תאמא Aramaic תאומאbor. Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor. Latin Thōmāsbor. Middle English Thomas Middle English Thomme English Tom English tom From generic use of the proper name Tom.

Shortened from tomato

Rhyming slang from tomfoolery.

Variant of TOM (“time of the month”) influenced by the name.

From Uncle Tom.

108 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 湯姆 /汤姆 (tāngmǔ) — male diminutive
• Latvian: Toms — male diminutive
• Māori: Tame — male diminutive
• Arabic: قِطّ (qiṭṭ) — male cat
• Arabic: قطو (gaṭu) — male cat
• Arabic: عتوي (ʕitwi) — male cat
• Assamese: বোন্দা (bünda) — male cat
• Asturian: gatu — male cat
• Belarusian: кот (kot) — male cat
• Breton: targazh — male cat
• Bulgarian: котара́к (kotarák) — male cat
• Burmese: ကြောင်ထီး (kraunghti:) — male cat
• Catalan: gat — male cat
• Chinese Mandarin: 郎貓 /郎猫 (lángmāo) — male cat
• Crimean Tatar: pardoş — male cat
• Czech: kocour — male cat
• Danish: hankat — male cat
• Dutch: kater — male cat
• Dutch: mannetjeskat — male cat
• Esperanto: virkato — male cat
• Esperanto: katiĉo — male cat
• Fijian: pusi — male cat
• Finnish: kolli — male cat
• Finnish: uroskissa — male cat
• French: matou — male cat
• French: chat — male cat
• West-Frisian: boarre — male cat
• German: Kater — male cat
• German: Katzenmännchen — male cat
• German: männliche Katze — male cat
• German: Kätzerich — male cat
• Greek: γάτος (gátos) — male cat
• Greek: κεραμιδόγατος (keramidógatos) — male cat
• Greek: αλητόγατος (alitógatos) — male cat
• Hausa: mùzūrū — male cat
• Hindi: बिल्ला (billā) — male cat
• Hungarian: kandúr — male cat
• Icelandic: högni — male cat
• Ido: katulo — male cat
• Ingrian: kullikasi — male cat
• Interlingua: catto — male cat
• Irish: fearchat — male cat
• Italian: gatto — male cat
• Jamaican Creole: ram puss — male cat
• Jamaican Creole: man puss — male cat
• Japanese: 雄猫 — male cat
• Kashmiri: برٛور (brōr) — male cat
• Kashmiri: بیٛور (byōr) — male cat
• Khmer: សត្វឆ្មាបា (sat cmaa baa) — male cat
• Khmer: ឆ្មាបា (cmaa baa) — male cat
• Korean: 수고양이 (sugoyang'i) — male cat
• Lao: ແມວຜູ້ (mǣu phū) — male cat
• Latvian: runcis — male cat
• Macedonian: мачор (mačor) — male cat
• Malay: kucing jantan — male cat
• Malayalam: കണ്ടൻപൂച്ച (kaṇṭaṉpūcca) — male cat
• Māori: tame — male cat
• Navajo: mósíkąʼ — male cat
• Navajo: gídíkąʼ — male cat
• Norwegian Bokmål: hannkatt — male cat
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hannkatt — male cat
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fross — male cat
• Polish: kocur — male cat
• Polish: kot — male cat
• Portuguese: gato — male cat
• Romanian: cotoi — male cat
• Romanian: motan — male cat
• Russian: кот (kot) — male cat
• Serbo-Croatian: мачор — male cat
• Serbo-Croatian: мачак — male cat
• Serbo-Croatian: mačor — male cat
• Serbo-Croatian: mačak — male cat
• Sindhi: ٽامڪ (ṭāmk) — male cat
• Slovak: kocúr — male cat
• Lower Sorbian: kócor — male cat
• Upper Sorbian: kocor — male cat
• Spanish: gato — male cat
• Swedish: hankatt — male cat
• Tatar: ата мәче (ata mäçe) — male cat
• Telugu: పోతుపిల్లి (pōtupilli) — male cat
• Turkish: kotak — male cat
• Ukrainian: кіт (kit) — male cat
• Urdu: بلّا (billā) — male cat
• Volapük: hikat — male cat
• Walloon: marou — male cat
• Walloon: marcåd — male cat
• Welsh: gwrcath — male cat
• Welsh: cath wryw — male cat
• Yiddish: קאָטער (koter) — male cat
• Bulgarian: самец (samec) — male of other animals
• Catalan: mascle — male of other animals
• Danish: han — male of other animals
• Dutch: mannetje — male of other animals
• Finnish: koiras — male of other animals
• French: mâle — male of other animals
• German: Männchen — male of other animals
• Italian: maschio — male of other animals
• Latvian: tēviņš — male of other animals
• Portuguese: macho — male of other animals
• Romanian: mascul — male of other animals
• Russian: саме́ц (saméc) — male of other animals
• Spanish: macho — male of other animals
• Swedish: hane — male of other animals
• Finnish: tom — drum type
• Finnish: tomi — drum type
• Spanish: tamtan — drum type
• Swedish: hängpuka — drum type
• Swedish: tom — drum type