Om (disambiguation) explained

Om is a sacred syllable in Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.

OM, om, and variations, may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fiction

• Om (1995 film), an Indian Kannada film
• Om (2003 film), a Bollywood film
• Om (2018 film), a Kollywood film
• Om, the lead character in the 2007 Bollywood film Om Shanti Om
• Om, any one of the humans in the 1973 animated film Fantastic Planet

Music

• Om (band), a doom metal band
• Om (Ibarra album), a 1996 album
• Om (John Coltrane album), a 1965 album
• OM (Negură Bunget album), a 2006 album
• Om (Soulfly album), a 2002 album also known as 3
• "Om" (The Moody Blues song), 1968
• Om (Niklas Strömstedt song), 1990
• OM Festival, a Canadian electronic music festival
• Om Records, a San Francisco-based dance music record label, home to artist like J Boogie, Kaskade, and King Kooba
• Of Machines, a post-hardcore band
• Orchestra Model, an acoustic guitar by Martin Guitars

People

• Om Bhatia, Indian actor better known as Akshay Kumar
• Om Puri, Indian actor
• Om Sahani, Indian actor

Sport

• Olympique de Marseille (OM), a French football club

Businesses and organizations

• MIAT-Mongolian Airlines (IATA code OM)
• Odyssey of the Mind, an international problem-solving competition for students
• Officine Meccaniche, a former Italian motor vehicle manufacturer
• Operation Mobilisation, a Christian non-profit missions organization
• OM AB, a Swedish exchange which merged with Finnish HEX plc to become OMX

Honors and orders

• Order of Manitoba, the post-nominal letters indicating membership in an honour of the Crown in Right of Manitoba
• Order of Merit, post-nominal letters indicating membership in a high honour from the monarch of the Commonwealth realms
• Order of Merit (Jamaica), post-nominal letters indicating membership of the Order of Merit in the Jamaican honours system
• Order of the Minims, the post-nominal letters indicating membership in a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Francis of Paola in the fifteenth century in Italy

Language

• Oromo language (ISO 639-1: "om")
• Oto-Manguean languages (abbreviated as "OM")

Places

• Øm Abbey, a Cistercian abbey which was in Søhøjlandet, in Denmark
• Om (river), a tributary of the Irtysh in Siberia, Russia
• Oman (ISO 3166 country code OM)
  • .om, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Oman
• Omu Peak, in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Occupational medicine, a medical specialty
• Osteomyelitis, a bone marrow infection
• Otitis media, an infection of the middle ear
• Bacterial outer membrane, a layer found in gram-negative bacteria

Computing and telecommunications

• .om, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Oman
• Openmoko Linux, a mobile operating system developed by the Openmoko project

Other uses in science and technology

• Builder's Old Measurement (abbr. OM or om) - a method of calculating tonnage (i.e. cargo capacity) for merchant ships in the age of sail
• Olympus OM system, a family of Olympus SLR cameras made between 1972 and 2002
• Organic matter
• Osipkov–Merritt models, mathematical representations of spherical stellar systems

Other uses

• Minim (religious order) (O.M.), is a member of the Roman Catholic religious order of friars
• Offering memorandum, in finance, "the OM", prospectus for a bond offering
• Old Man, meaning a male amateur radio operator
• List of Old Marlburians, alumni of Marlborough College
• Old Millfieldians, alumni of Millfield School
• Om family, eastern Bengali family
• Operating margin, in business
• Operation Mindfuck, a practice within Discordianism
• Orgasmic meditation, a meditational practice in which the object of meditation is finger to genital (usually clitoris) contact
• Pakpilai Thavisin (born 1960), nicknamed Om, Thai physician, businesswoman and wife of Srettha Thavisin, Prime Minister of Thailand

See also

• Aum (disambiguation)
• Omkara (disambiguation)
• O&M (disambiguation)
• OAM (disambiguation)
• Ohm (disambiguation)
• OMS (disambiguation)
• Omu (disambiguation)
• Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese new religious movement, known for carrying out the Sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo subways