Bochum

== English == === Proper noun === Bochum A city in western Germany. ==== Translations ==== == German == === Etymology === From Middle Low German bôchêm, bôkhêm, equivalent to bôke, bö̂ke (“beech”) + hêm (“home”). Compare -um (placename suffix). The [x] may go back to spelling pronunciation or influence by a Central German dialect. (It could also be a native development [kh] → [x] as in Dutch lichaam, but the popular form in Westphalian Low German is Baukem.) Doublet of Buchheim. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈboːxʊm/ === Proper noun === Bochum n (proper noun, strong, genitive Bochums) Bochum (an independent city in Ruhrgebiet, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)