cơm

See also: com, COM, cớm, .com, com', com-, Com., and Appendix:Variations of "com"

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *kəːm (“cooked rice”); cognate with Arem /kʌːm/. According to Ferlus, a loan from Chinese 泔 (OC *kaːm, “water from washing rice; kitchen slops”) (SV: cam).[1]

Semantically, compare Chinese 飯 (“rice; meal”), Japanese ご飯 (gohan, “rice; meal”).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kəːm˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [kəːm˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kəːm˧˧]

Noun

cơm (粓, 𩚵)

cooked non-glutinous rice
a rice meal
ăn cơm
to eat rice; to have a rice meal, optionally with meat, fish, soup, among other foods
(of fruit, especially coconuts) meat; flesh

Derived terms

cơm chiên (“fried rice”)
cơm hộp
cơm niêu (“rice cooked in an earthenware pot”)
cơm tấm
nồi cơm điện (“rice cooker”)
trống cơm

Adjective

cơm

(of fruit) tasteless (not sour, or only slightly sweet)

Verb

cơm

(slang) to walk away with; to steal

References

Ferlus, Michel. “The Austroasiatic Vocabulary for Rice: its Origin and Expansion.” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 3.2 (2010), 61-76.

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[1] Ferlus, Michel. “The Austroasiatic Vocabulary for Rice: its Origin and Expansion.” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 3.2 (2010), 61-76.