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{{also|Doom|dom|Dom|DOM|-dom}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/duːm/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-doom.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|uːm|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|doom}}, {{m|enm|dom}}, from {{inh|en|ang|dōm|t=[[judgement]]}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*dōm}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*dōmaz}}, from {{inh|en|ine-pro|*dʰóh₁mos}}.

Compare {{cog|fy|doem}}, {{cog|nl|doem}}, {{cog|da|-}}, {{cog|no|-}}, and {{cog|sv|dom}}, {{cog|is|dómur}}. {{doublet|en|duma}}. See also {{m|en|deem}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# [[destiny|Destiny]], especially [[terrible]].
#* {{RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works|IV|The First Book of Homer's Ilias|415|This, for the night; by day, the web and loom, / And homely houſhold-taſk, ſhall be her '''doom''',}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2007|volume=92|issue=4|page=495|title=Fustian Days: Book One: Sonic Goddam Boom|author=Billy Lee Brammer|journal=Southwest Review|passage="When should I expect him?" Roy said, resigned to his '''doom'''.}}
#* {{quote-video game|en|developer=w:BioWare|title={{w|Mass Effect (video game)|Mass Effect}}|location=Redwood City|publisher=Electronic Arts|year=2008|system=PC|scene=Virmire|isbn=9780784546642|oclc=246633669|text=We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your '''doom'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=December 11, 2009|volume=59|issue=8|page=4|title=Robin Hood|author=Karen Gormandy|passage="After he takes the throne, you will be arrested." / "You lie like your master, Carfax. Your '''doom''' is sealed."}}
# An [[undesirable]] [[fate]]; an [[impending]] [[severe]] [[occurrence]] or [[danger]] that [[seem]]s [[inevitable]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2004|volume=89|issue=4|page=479|title=The Turpentine Still|author=Arthur Miller|journal=Southwest Review|passage=unlike Vincent, he wasn't quite taken in by the outbreak of hopefulness on all sides. After all, nothing about the tanks or the process had been resolved; an air of '''doom''' still hung undisturbed over the project.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2007|month=February| volume=71| issue=773| page=45| title=Tapestries in Oil| author=Bob Bahr| journal=American Artist| passage=Such paintings are inherently moody, and Elliott likes that-even as he carefully avoids dictating a specific mood. "Yesterday I painted the last light of the day-the trees looked pink, and the mountain's shadow was coming over them. It created a feeling of nostalgia... or impending '''doom'''... or still, quiet, peacefulness. It depends on the viewer's feelings about the scene, not just mine."}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=April 27, 2009|section=Sports|page=7C| title=After Lions^ gamble, lots of big men tapped| author=Nate Davis| work=USA Today| passage=Chung was the first of its four picks in Round 2. His arrival might spell '''doom''' for Rodney Harrison.}}
# [[dread|Dread]]; a feeling of [[danger]], [[impending]] danger, [[darkness]]{{,}} or [[despair]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|title=Once upon a wedding night|author=Sophie Jordan| passage=She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. '''Doom''' settled like a heavy stone in her chest.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Year the Lights Came on|page=204|author=Terry Kay|coauthors=William J. Scheick| year=2007| passage=Feeling '''doom''', as we learned in the beautiful folk language of blacks who knew the truth of it, began with a single unexpected oddity — a redbird out of season, hail out of cloudless skies, dogs cowering under the house}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Real Life Freedom|page=25|author=Beverly Fincham| year=2008| passage=I'm taking medications every day; never thinking I would be spiraling into nothing but a nightmare that made me feel '''doom'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2009|month=March|volume=122|issue=3|page=15| title=Forget the rules and make the leap|author=Deanna Roy| journal=Writer| passage=Then the smiling narrator filled me with '''doom''': I was expected to pull my own rip cord. I nearly fainted.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=What to do when it all goes right|author=Mark Morford| date=July 20, 2010| passage=perhaps you do that most rare of things when reading the news: You grin, exhale, stop feeling '''doom''' in every crevasse and corner of your body.|work=San Francisco Chronicle}}
# {{lb|en|countable|obsolete}} A [[law]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Beatrice Adelaide Lees| title=Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899| page=211| year=1915| passage="What ye will not that other men should do unto you, that do ye not unto other men." "From this one '''doom'''," comments Alfred, "a man may bethink him how he should judge every one rightly: he needs no other doombook."}}
# {{lb|en|countable|obsolete}} A [[judgment]] or [[decision]].
#* {{quote-book|en| tlr=Edward Fairfax|title=w:Jerusalem Delivered| year=1600| original=Gerusalemme Liberata| by=w:Torquato Tasso| passage=And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain '''doom'''.}}
#* {{RQ:KJV|2 Esdras|7|43|passage=But the day of '''doome''' shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=w:Ancient Law|page=22| author=w:Henry Sumner Maine| year=1861| passage=Kings are spoken of as if they had a store of "Themistes" ready to hand for use; but it must be distinctly understood that they are not laws, but judgments, or, to take the exact Teutonic equivalent, "'''dooms'''."}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Beatrice Adelaide Lees|title=Alfred the Great: the truth teller, maker of England, 848-899| page=208| year=1915| passage=when Alfred in turn set himself to the task of stating and interpreting the law of his kingdom, there were already precedents for him to follow, in the written "'''dooms'''" (domas) of his predecessors, — themselves but a small portion of the still unwritten custom}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:J. R. R. Tolkien|title=w:The Silmarillion| page=88| year=1977| passage=Therefore I say that we will go on, and this '''doom''' I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.}}
# {{lb|en|countable|obsolete}} A [[sentence]] or [[penalty]] for [[illegal]] [[behaviour]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1874|author=w:John Richard Green|title=w:A Short History of the English People
|passage=The first '''dooms''' of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=An institute of the law of Scotland|page=989| author=John Erskine|coauthors=Sir George Mackenzie; James Ivory| year=1828| passage=Appeals were by our ancient law styled falsing of '''dooms'''. They were to be entered immediately after '''doom''' or sentence was pronounced,}}
#* {{RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado|song=A More Humane Mikado|page=36|passage=The billiard '''sharp''' whom anyone catches / His '''doom'''’s extremely hard— / He’s made to dwell— / In a dungeon cell / On a spot that’s always barred.}}
# [[death|Death]].
#: {{ux|en|They met an untimely '''doom''' when the mineshaft caved in.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Titus Andronicus|author=w:William Shakespeare |year=1593| passage=This is the day of '''doom''' for Bassianus.}}
#* {{quote-song|en|author={{w|H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society|The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society}}|authorlabel=no|title=Harley Got Devoured by the Undead|album=An Even Scarier Solstice|year=2006|text=Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his '''doom'''}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2009|title=Tangled lies|author=Anne Kristin Stuart| passage=The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her '''doom''' somewhere over the Pacific. At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.}}
# {{lb|en|sometimes capitalized}} The [[Last Judgment]]; ''or'', an [[artistic]] [[representation]] thereof.

=====Antonyms=====
* {{antsense|undesirable fate}} {{l|en|fortune}}

=====Hyponyms=====
{{col3
|en|entropic doom
|foredoom
|predoom
}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|addoom|doomcore|doomism|doomist|doomposting|doomscroll|doomscroller|doomsman|doomsome|doomsurfing|doomtard|doomward|doomwatch|doomwatcher|misdoom|wisdom|Doom
|doom-and-gloomer
|gloom-and-doomer
|doomer
|doomful
|doomless
|doomlike
|doom metal
|doomsayer
|doomsday
|doomster|day of doom|doom spending
|doomy|death-doom|doom folk|doom loop|doom rock|doom-mongering|epic doom|trump of doom
|gloom and doom|crack of doom|demon duck of doom|doom and gloom|doom palm|doom scrolling|doom-and-gloom|doom-monger|doomscrolling|funeral doom|meet one's doom|prophet of doom|pyramid of doom|room of doom|spell doom
}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|deem}}
* {{l|en|-dom}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|obsolete: law}}
* German: {{t+|de|Bann|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|דִּין|m|tr=din}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|törvény}}, {{t+|hu|rendelet}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|sentenza|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|за́кон|m}}, {{t+|mk|суд|m}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|Стра́шный суд|m}}, {{t+|ru|суд|m}}, {{t+|ru|зако́н|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|obsolete: judgment or decision}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|dom}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tuomio}}
* German: {{t+|de|Urteil|n}}, {{t+|de|Verbannung|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|דִּין|m|tr=din}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ítélet}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|sentenza|f}}, {{t+|it|giudizio|m}}, {{t+|it|decisione|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|宣告|tr=せんこく, senkoku|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|判決|tr=はんけつ, hanketsu|sc=Jpan}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|пре́суда|f}}, {{t|mk|о́длука|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|sąd|m}}, {{t+|pl|osąd|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|пригово́р|m}}, {{t+|ru|реше́ние|n}}, {{t+|ru|декре́т|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|obsolete: sentence or penalty}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|dom}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tuomio}}
* German: {{t+|de|Urteil|n}}, {{t+|de|Strafe|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|ítélet}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|sentenza|f}}, {{t|it|penalità|f}}, {{t+|it|condanna|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|刑罰|tr=けいばつ, keibatsu|sc=Jpan}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|пре́суда|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|wyrok|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|пригово́р|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|death}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|гибел|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|死亡|tr=sǐwáng}}
* Danish: {{t|da|undergang|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|ondergang|c}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|morto}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kohtalo}}
* French: {{t+|fr|mort|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Untergang|m}}, {{t+|de|Tod|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|végzet}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|morte|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|死|tr=[[し]], shi|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|滅亡|tr=めつぼう, metsubō|sc=Jpan}}
* Macedonian: {{t+|mk|смрт|f}}, {{t|mk|ги́бел|f}}, {{t|mk|про́паст|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zguba|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|смерть|f}}, {{t+|ru|ги́бель|f}}, {{t+|ru|кончи́на|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|undergång|c}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|смерть}}, {{t+|uk|загибель}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|destiny, especially terrible}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|نَحْس|m}}, {{t|ar|شُؤْم|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|участ|f}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|osud|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kohtalo}}
* German: {{t+|de|Schicksal|n}}, {{t+|de|Verhängnis|n}}, {{t+|de|Verderben|n}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|דִּין|m|tr=din}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|sorte|f}}, {{t+|it|fato|m}}, {{t+|it|avversità|f}}, {{t+|it|presagio|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|運命|tr=うんめい, unmei|sc=Jpan}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|про́паст|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|fatum|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|рок|m}}, {{t+|ru|судьба́|f}}, {{t+|ru|фа́тум|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|öde|n}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|доля}}, {{t|uk|приреченість}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|undesirable fate}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|орис|f}}, {{t+|bg|участ|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|厄運|tr=èyùn}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|loppu}}
* French: {{t+|fr|ruine|f}}, {{t+|fr|perte|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|אֲבַדּוֹן|tr=avadón|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|végzet}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|rovina|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|凶運|tr=きょううん, kyōun|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|災難|tr=さいなん, sainan|sc=Jpan}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|су́дбина|f}}, {{t|mk|про́паст|f}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zagłada|f}}, {{t+|pl|zguba|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|у́часть|f}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|доля}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|feeling of danger}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kauhu}}
* German: {{t|de|drohendes Unheil|n}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|presagio|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|пре́тчувство|n}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|groza|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|предчу́вствие|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|Last Judgment}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[pronounce]] [[judgment]] or [[sentence#Noun|sentence]] on; to [[condemn]].
#: {{ux|en|a criminal '''doomed''' to death}}
#* {{RQ:Dryden Aeneis|6|passage=Absolves the just, and '''dooms''' the guilty souls.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Alex McLevy|title=''[[w:Game of Thrones|Game Of Thrones]]'' Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531120501/https://www.avclub.com/game-of-thrones-suffers-the-fog-of-war-in-the-battle-ag-1834367999|archivedate=31 May 2021|work=w:The A.V. Club|date=28 April 2019|passage=There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would '''doom''' her.}}
# To [[destine]]; to fix irrevocably the [[ill]] [[fate]] of.
#* {{RQ:Macaulay Goldsmith|passage=A man of genius {{...}} '''doomed''' to struggle with difficulties.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[judge]]; to estimate or determine as a judge.
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|passage=And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not '''doomed''' this place our safe retreat|year=1873}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[ordain]] as a [[penalty]]; hence, to [[mulct]] or [[fine]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3|II|i|passage=Have I tongue to '''doom''' my brother's death?}}
# {{lb|en|archaic|New England}} To [[assess]] a [[tax]] upon, by estimate or at discretion.

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to condemn}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|обричам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|damnar}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|odsoudit}}
* Danish: {{t|da|dømme}}; {{t|da|fordømme}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tuomita}}
* French: {{t+|fr|condamner}}
* German: {{t+|de|verurteilen}}, {{t+|de|verdammen}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|dannare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|断罪|alt=断罪する|tr=だんざいする, danzai suru|sc=Jpan}}
* Latin: {{t|la|sacro}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|о́суди|pf}}, {{t|mk|осу́дува|impf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|condenar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|обрека́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|обре́чь|pf}}, {{t+|ru|осужда́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|осуди́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|condenar}}, {{t+|es|dañar}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|прирікати}}, {{t|uk|приректи́|pf}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====See also====
* {{l|en|doomsday}}
* {{l|en|doomsaying}}
* {{l|en|damn}}

===Etymology 2===

====Phrase====
{{head|en|phrase}}

# {{senseid|en|initialism}} {{lb|en|Internet slang}} {{init of|en|[[didn't#Verb|didn't]] [[organize#Verb|organize]], [[only#Adverb|only]] [[move#Verb|moved]]|nodot=1}}; {{n-g|used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.}}
#: {{alti|en|DOOM}}
#: {{ux|en|I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big '''doom''' pile.}}
#* {{RQ:WaPo|title='Body doubling,' an ADHD productivity tool, is flourishing online|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/06/01/virtual-body-doubling-productivity-tiktok/|archiveurl=https://archive.ph/I7oxJ|archivedate=2 June 2023|date=1 June 2022|passage=One day in April of 2021, Lindsey Bee decided it was time to deal with the laundry "'''doom''' piles" that had formed around her house. So she did what many people do when faced with a boring task. She turned to TikTok.}}
#* {{RQ:NYT|author=w:Jancee Dunn|quotee=Kerry Lakey|title=How to Clear Out Digital Clutter|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510190906/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/well/live/digital-clutter.html|date=24 February 2023|passage=While digital clutter may not be physical, like the "'''doom''' piles" and junk drawers in your home, the anxiety and distress it induces is real, said Kerry Lakey, a lecturer in psychology at Northumbria University in England, who studies behavior around digital data.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Alexandrea Cantwell|title="My Doom Piles Screamed 'Undiagnosed ADHD'"|work=w:ADDitude|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609003142/https://www.additudemag.com/doom-piling-adhd-sign-clutter/|date=28 April 2023|passage=The doom in {{'}}'''doom''' pile' is actually an acronym. It stands for "Didn't Organize, Only Moved" – an experience many people with ADHD can apparently relate to when they try to organize their spaces, whether physical or virtual. Instead of sorting things in their rightful places, they end up stacking them along with other random, unsorted things to be organized later – or never. That's how people end up with '''doom''' piles, '''doom''' boxes, '''doom''' bags, '''doom''' folders and drives, '''doom''' rooms and closets, and other kinds of '''doom''' arrangements.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Kristin Wilcox|title=Is Your ADHD Making You a DOOM Piler?|work=w:Psychology Today|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/mythbusting-adhd/202306/is-your-adhd-making-you-a-doom-piler|archiveurl=https://archive.ph/kYPN0|archivedate=30 August 2023|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Sussex Publishers|date=20 June 2023|issn=0033-3107|oclc=1081160|passage='''DOOM''' piles are a cleaning tactic and a way of reducing visual clutter. Essentially, it's stashing random items that need to be organized in one place, to be dealt with later. We all have '''DOOM''' piles — a junk drawer or a place where we put piles of clutter before guests visit. There can be '''DOOM''' piles, '''DOOM''' bags, '''DOOM''' boxes, or one of my son's favorites, a '''DOOM''' desk.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Allie Cantwell|work=w:CBC News|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828012917/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-cbc-adhd-first-person-cantwell-1.6738537|date=9 February 2023|passage=The term "'''doom''' pile" or "'''doom''' box" stands for "Didn't Organize, Only Moved" and is usually a failed attempt by adults with ADHD to organize paperwork.|brackets=on}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=dmoo|Odom|mood}}

{{C|en|Death}}

==Kemi Sami==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|sjk|ru|дом}}. Compare {{cog|sms|dom}} and {{cog|sjd|до̄ма}}.

===Noun===
{{head|sjk|noun}}

# [[house]], [[building]]

====Further reading====
* {{R:Álgu|64294|'''dōm'''}}

{{C|sjk|Buildings}}

==Middle English==

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|enm|doim|dom|dome}}

===Etymology===
{{inh+|enm|ang|dōm}}, from {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*dōm}}, from {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*dōmaz}}, from {{inh|enm|ine-pro|*dʰóh₁mos}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|enm|/doːm/}}

===Noun===
{{head|enm|noun}}

# a [[judgement]], (legal) [[decision]] or sentence
# a decision or [[order]]
# a court or trial issuing judgement
# final judgement after death
# justice, rulership, authority

====Descendants====
* {{desc|en|doom}}
* {{desc|gmw-msc|dome|dume}}

===References===
* {{R:MED Online|entry=dọ̄m|pos=n|id=MED12338|accessdate=2018-03-15}}

{{C|enm|Afterlife|Death|Law}}

==Wolof==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|wo|Wo-doom.ogg}}

===Noun===
{{wo-noun|ji}}

# [[child]], [[offspring]]

===Noun===
{{wo-noun|bi}}

# [[fruit]], [[seed]]
# [[tablet]], [[pill]]

===References===
* {{cite-book
|author=Jean-Léopold Diouf
|title=Dictionnaire wolof-français et français-wolof
|publisher=Éditions KARTHALA
|year=2003
|page=109
|isbn=2-84586-454-X}}

{{top|wo|Family}}