carom

English

Alternative forms

• carrom

Etymology 1

Probably corrupted from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹəm/
• Rhymes: -æɹəm

Noun

carom (countable and uncountable, plural caroms)

1. (countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

   Synonym: (UK) cannon

2. (uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

Derived terms

• carom billiards
• carom plug

 

Translations

shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls

• Catalan: carambola (ca)
• Esperanto: karambolo
• Finnish: kara (fi)
• Greek: καραμπόλα (el) f (karampóla)
• Macedonian: ка́рамбол m (kárambol)
• Russian: карамбо́ль (ru) (karambólʹ)
• Spanish: carambola (es) f
• Tagalog: karambola

board game

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: كيرم m (kēram)

• Finnish: korona (fi)
• Hindi: कैरम m (kairam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: couronne m, kurong m

  Nynorsk: couronne m, kurong m

Verb

carom (third-person singular simple present caroms, present participle caroming, simple past and past participle caromed)

1. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[1]:

     Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.

   • 1922, John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World:

     [T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America […] while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs.

References

“carom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

carom (uncountable)

1. (spices) ajwain

References

• “carom”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• AMORC, Armco, Comar, Coram, Marco, croma, macro, macro-

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.rɔm/
• Rhymes: -arɔm
• Syllabification: ca‧rom

Noun

carom m

1. dative plural of car

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkarɔm/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːrɔm/, /ˈkarɔm/

Verb

carom

1. (literary) first-person plural present subjunctive of caru

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
carom	garom	ngharom	charom
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.