godfather of one's child · father of one's godchild · a friend in high places, one's benefactor
çekim: çoğul кумовья́ · tamlayan ку́ма
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kumъ, back-formation from *kuma (“godmother”), from Balkan Vulgar Latin *cómmater, from Latin compater (“godfather”).
Qom (a city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning) · Qom (a county of Iran, around the city) · Qom (a province of Iran)
köken: Immediately from Arabic, since the city was founded by Arabs in 685 and because ق (q) does not occur in native Persian words. The 988 book History of Qum offers several etymologies: * An Arabic corruption of Classical Persian کُومَه (kūma, “shed; hut”), since the site of the city was previously used by shepherds for shelter. This may be the most plausible. * An Arabic corruption of the nearby…
rubber (pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree) · short for 消しゴム (keshi-gomu, “rubber (eraser)”) · short for ヘアゴム (hea-gomu, “hair tie, scrunchie”)