Om (disambiguation)

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

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

Arts and entertainment

Fiction

Music

People

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

Businesses and organizations

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

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

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

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
  • Olympique de Marseille, a French football club in Marseille
  • 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