Adjective: frum
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | frummer |
| Superlative | frummest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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I learned all about the role of the kibbutz in Israeli life. Not to mention the role of the Arab, the artist, the woman, the socialist and the frum Jew. [1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 45:]
Adjectives inflected like frum
dim,
mim,
bum,
rum,
frum,
grum,
grim,
glam,
glum,
clam,
trim,
prim,
slim,
Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish פֿרום (frum, “pious”). Related to German fromm and Dutch vroom. See: German Adjectives '
fromm', Dutch Adjectives '
vroom'.