romo
Hausa
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rōmō m (possessed form rōmon)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Javanese rama (“father”), from Old Javanese rāma (“father”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *amax (“father”), from Proto-Austronesian *ama-h (“father”). Semantic loan from Portuguese padre (“priest”, literally “father”).
Pronunciation
Noun
romo (first-person possessive romoku, second-person possessive romomu, third-person possessive romonya)
- (Catholicism) priest
- Synonym: pastor
Alternative forms
- rama (KBBI standard)
Further reading
- “romo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos).
Adjective
romo (feminine roma, masculine plural romos, feminine plural romas)
- blunt, dull
- Synonyms: desafilado, embotado
Derived terms
- arromar (“to (make) blunt, dull”)
Further reading
- “romo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Etymology 2
A loanblend from the English rum, absorbed into the Spanish lexicon unique to Belize.[1]
Noun
romo m (plural romos)
- (Belize, Dominican Republic) rum
- Synonym: ron
References
- Hausa terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hausa lemmas
- Hausa nouns
- Hausa masculine nouns
- ha:Soups
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Old Javanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Indonesian terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Indonesian semantic loans from Portuguese
- Indonesian terms derived from Portuguese
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Catholicism
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/omo
- Rhymes:Spanish/omo/2 syllables
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Belizean Spanish
- Dominican Spanish