Bloom

See also: bloom, blööm, and Blööm

English

Etymology

English and Jewish surname converged from several origins:

• Middle English blom (“ingot”), from Old English blōma (“lump of iron”)
• Swedish Blom
• Dutch Bloem, see bloem (“flower”)
• Spelling variant of Blum

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bluːm/
• Rhymes: -uːm

Proper noun

Bloom

1. A surname.
   • 2023 June 24, Chris Lau and Sara Smart, “‘That could’ve been us,’ say father and son who pulled out of doomed Titan trip out of safety concerns”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”.

2. A place in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado.
   2. An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas.
   3. A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
   4. A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Kansas (2 or 3), Minnesota, Ohio (5), and Pennsylvania, listed under Bloom Township.

Derived terms

• Bloomsday

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bloom”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 175.

Low German

En witte Roos — A white rose

Etymology

From Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō. Akin to German Blume, Dutch bloem, Dutch Low Saxon bloom, English bloom, Danish blomme, Swedish blomma; also compare Latin flōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbloʊm/

Noun

Bloom f (plural Blomen or Blööm) (German Low German)

1. (botany) flower; blossom; bloom

   Insekten hölpt Blomen bi de Reprodukschoon.

   Insects help blooms with reproduction.

   De brede Varietät an Blomensoorten faszineer de Minschen al lang.

   The broad variety of flowersorts has long fascinated Man.

2. (chemistry) efflorescence
3. (heraldry) flower

   Blomen sind faken en Bestanddeel vun Symbolen op Flaggen un Wapens.

   Flowers are often a building block of symbols on flags and coats of arms.

   De Bloom, wölke England symboliseert, is de rode Roos.

   The flower that symbolizes England is the red rose.

4. (hunting) tail, scut (of a hare)
5. nose, bouquet (of a wine)

Derived terms

• Blomenstruuß
• Blomenstrüüschen
• Blöömken

Related terms

• Blatt n
• blöhen
• Blööt f

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• bluum (Föhr-Amrum)
• blööm (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian blōma, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō. Cognates include West Frisian blom.

Noun

Bloom m (plural blööme)

1. (Sylt) flower

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German blôme, from Old Saxon blōmo, from Proto-West Germanic *blōmō.

Noun

Bloom f (plural Bloomen)

1. flower, bloom

Derived terms

• Bloomenbeet
• Bloomenfensta (“bay window”)
• Bloomengoaden
• Bloomenknoppen
• Bloomenkomst
• Bloomenkrauns
• bloomenoatich (“floral”)
• Bloomensauft
• Bloomenstoff
• Bloomentopp
• bloomich (“flowery”)
• Fenstabloom (“indoor plant”)
• Gaunsebloom (“daisy”)
• Glockenbloom (“garden flower”)
• Goadenbloom (“gladiola”)
• Katrienkjebloom (“asters”)
• Koobloom (“cowslip”)
• Monbloom (“poppies”)
• Pelzbloom (“crocus”)
• Schlangenbloom (“dandelion”)
• Schlätelbloom (“cowslip”)
• Sonnenbloom (“sunflower”)
• Stroobloom (“everlasting flower”)

See also

• Beet (“bed of flowers”)
• Boom (“tree”)
• Däa
• Goaden (“garden”)
• Hoff (“yard”)
• Hus (“house”)
• Plaunt (“plant”)
• Stap
• Staul
• Stow
• Wota (“water”)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words