Join free

om

English · Français · Tiếng Việt · Română · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

om¹

  • /ɒm/ UK
  • /əʊm/ UK
  • /oʊm/ US

Rhymes with -əʊm, -ɒm

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit ओम् (om) (symbol ॐ (oṃ) (ॐ)). The former (om) is used in both Buddhist and Hindu settings, while the latter (aum) is usually used only in Jain and Hindu settings.

noun oms · aum

  1. Hinduism A sacred, mystical syllable used in prayer and meditation. In fact it sounded exactly like the voice of Livia, her vanished sister, and, like her, it was intoning the Aum just as she used once to do at the beginning of her yoga sessions.

verb oms · omming · ommed · aum

  1. intransitive To chant the sacred syllable om. Allen Ginsberg omming like a death rattle, his voice ravaged by the days of Hindu chants and gas.

OM²

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Occupy movement
  2. Commonwealth, UK, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Order of Merit, a dynastic order of the Royal House of Windsor.

noun OMs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of outer marker
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of otitis media
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of old measurement
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of old man (term of address for a male). Games for the harmonics, (children), YL's and XYL's and the OM's, plus free soda for all.

    Similar: OB

  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of operations manager

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Olympique de Marseille

Om³

proper noun the Om · Om'

  1. A river in the south of the Western Siberian plains in Russia, a right tributary of the Irtysh.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: prakash, obeisance, aum, omkara, udgitha, taraka, pranav, omkaar, mantra, bogometer, nom, omphalopsychite, oms, omsk, ac, ab

Translations

Every language

noun sacred syllable

한국어옴 om
日本語唵 on, オーム ōmu
中文唵 ǎn
हिन्दीॐ om, ओम om
Ελληνικάωμ om
Tiếng Việtúm

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"om." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/om. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

om. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/om

Chicago

"om." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/om.

BibTeX
@misc{om_2026,
  title = {om},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/om},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}