sloom

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

sluggish, slow, lifeless

Έννοιες

αργός

αργόστροφος

βραδύς

καθυστερημένος

argós

argá

Συνώνυμα

langzaam

traag

slome

traag van begrip

langzame

dom

dralend

zwak

suf

lijzig

loom

Μεταφράσεις

slow

lenta

lento

lento

tardo

yavaş

langsam

lent

lento

flau

lentus

thick

träge

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/sloːm/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Uncertain; first attested in the late nineteenth century. Ostensibly a variant of loom (“(pleasantly) lazy”), perhaps influenced by words pertaining to slowness and sluggishness with initial sl- such as slungel, slenteren, slak and sloffen.
Note however the fixed expression slome duikelaar, which contains some of the earliest attestations of this word and derives from the pseudonym Sjloume Duikelaar, a late eighteenth-century author from Amsterdam writing in Yiddish. It is uncertain if the adaptation of the name Sjloume to slome is influenced by the prior existence of this word, or if this word in fact derives from the pseudonym.