Sodom

See also: sodom

English

Etymology

Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).

(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒ.dəm/
• (US) enPR: sädʹəm, IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.dəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɒdəm, (US) -ɑdəm
• Hyphenation: So‧dom

Proper noun

Sodom

1. (biblical, Quranic) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.
2. (Oxford University slang, obsolete) Wadham College, Oxford.

Derived terms

• apple of Sodom
• Sea of Sodom
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Sodom apple
• Sodom egg-plant
• Sodom-fruit
• Sodomic
• vine of Sodom

 

Related terms

• sodomise
• sodomist
• sodomite
• sodomy

 

Translations

city in the Middle East

• Arabic: سَدُوم f (sadūm), صَدِيم f (ṣadīm)
• Armenian: Սոդոմ (Sodom)
• Belarusian: Садо́м m (Sadóm)
• Burmese: သောဒုံမြို့ (sau:dummrui.)
• Catalan: Sodoma f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 所多瑪／所多玛 (so² do¹ maa⁵), 索多瑪／索多玛 (sok³ do¹ maa⁵) (Catholic)

  Hakka: 所多瑪／所多玛 (Só-tô-mâ)

  Hokkien: 所多瑪／所多玛 (Só͘-to-má)

  Mandarin: 所多瑪／所多玛 (zh) (Suǒduōmǎ), 索多瑪／索多玛 (zh) (Suǒduōmǎ) (Catholic)

• Estonian: Soodom
• Finnish: Sodoma
• French: Sodome (fr) m
• Galician: Sodoma (gl) f
• Georgian: სოდომი (sodomi)
• German: Sodom (de) n
• Greek: Σόδομα f (Sódoma)

  Ancient: Σόδομα n pl (Sódoma), Σόδομα f (Sódoma)

• Hebrew: סְדוֹם (he) (s'dóm)
• Hindi: सदोम (sadom), सदूम (sadūm)
• Hungarian: Szodoma (hu)
• Italian: Sodoma f
• Japanese: ソドム (Sodomu)
• Kazakh: Содом (Sodom)
• Korean: 소돔 (Sodom)
• Latin: Sodoma f
• Maore Comorian: Suduma
• Persian: سدوم (fa) (sadum)
• Polish: Sodoma (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sodoma f
• Russian: Содо́м (ru) m (Sodóm)
• Spanish: Sodoma (es) f
• Turkish: Sodom
• Ukrainian: Содо́м m (Sodóm)

Noun

Sodom (plural Sodoms)

1. A city or place full of sin and vice.
   • 1890, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Trumpet Peals, page 92:

     Take all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not be long before Brooklyn and New York and Boston and Charleston and Chicago became Sodoms.

See also

• Admah
• Gomorrah
• Zeboim

References

• (Wadham College): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• dooms, moods