pomme

• pomey

Borrowed from French pomme, ultimately from Latin poma.

pomme (plural pomeis)

1. (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling an apple.

• Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, Frederick Warne and Co., p. 60.

From Old French pomme, pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare English pome.

• IPA^(key): /pɔm/

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pomme f (plural pommes)

1. apple (fruit)
2. Any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size.
3. The fruit part of several vegetables.
4. (colloquial) The head.

• pommeau
• pommer
• pommier

• Antillean Creole: ponm
• Haitian Creole: pòm
• Louisiana Creole French: pòm
• Mauritian Creole: pom
• Seychellois Creole: ponm
• → Amharic: ፖም (pom)
• → East Futuna: pomo
• → English: pomme, pomey
• → Khmer: ប៉ុម (pom)
• → Malagasy: paoma
• → Ngazidja Comorian: pomu
• → Rwanda-Rundi: pome
• → Vietnamese: bôm
• → Wolof: pom

• “pomme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• poumme (Jersey)
• paomme (Guernsey)
• pum (Sark)
• poume (continental Norman)

From Latin pomme, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum (“fruit”).

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pomme f (plural pommes)

1. (Jersey) apple

pomme f (oblique plural pommes, nominative singular pomme, nominative plural pommes)

1. Alternative form of pome