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hom

hom is the alternative form of haoma.

Meaning of haoma

Noun

haoma (uncountable)

  1. A plant associated with the divinity Haoma.
    • The offering of haoma was a common practice among Achaemenids; the Haumavarga Scythians probably owe their name to the fact that they did not press the plant but strewed it ritually (HOFFMANN 1975).1999, Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst, Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible: DDD, page 384

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: HOM

HOM

  1. The station code of Ho Man Tin in Hong Kong.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hom

Hom

  1. A surname

Origin of hom

From Taishanese 譚 /谭 (ham⁴).

Phrases with hom

Questions about hom

What does hom mean?
Hom means the station code of Ho Man Tin in Hong Kong.
What is hom the alternative form of?
Hom is the alternative form of haoma.
What part of speech is hom?
Hom is a proper noun.

Words near hom in the dictionary

  1. Holzmans
  2. Holzwarth
  3. Holzwarths
  4. Holzworth
  5. Holzworths
  6. hom
  7. hom class
  8. hom classes
  9. hom mali rice
  10. hom mali rices
  11. hom-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hom (page history and authors); HOM (page history and authors); Hom (page history and authors); haoma (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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