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Qum

Qum is the alternative form of Qom.

Meaning of Qom

Proper noun

Qom

  1. A city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning.
  2. A county of Iran, around the city.
  3. A province of Iran.

See all 4 meanings of Qom

Origin of Qum

Borrowed from Classical Persian قم (qum).

Questions about Qum

What is Qum the alternative form of?
Qum is the alternative form of Qom.

Words near Qum in the dictionary

  1. qullqa
  2. qullqas
  3. Qult
  4. Qultist
  5. Qultists
  6. Qum
  7. Qumarlêb
  8. Qumis
  9. qumix
  10. qumixes
  11. qumode

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Qum (page history and authors); Qom (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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