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aum

aum is the alternative form of om.

aum is the alternative form of aam.

Meaning of om

Noun

om (plural oms)

  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.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 800

See all 3 meanings of om

Meaning of aam

Noun

aam (plural aams)

  1. (historical) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36½, and in Hamburg 38¼.

Noun capitalized: AUM

AUM (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of assets under management.

Forms of aum

pluralaums

Phrases with aum

Questions about aum

What is aum the alternative form of?
Aum is the alternative form of om.
What part of speech is aum?
Aum is a noun.
What is the plural of aum?
The plural of aum is aums.

Words near aum in the dictionary

  1. Aultman
  2. Aultmans
  3. Aultmore
  4. Aults
  5. aulæ
  6. aum
  7. Aum Shinrikyo
  8. aumaga
  9. aumagas
  10. aumakua
  11. aumakuas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aum (page history and authors); AUM (page history and authors); om (page history and authors); aam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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