Qom

or Qum

[ koom ]

noun

1. a city in NW Iran, SW of Teheran, on the Qom river.

Qom

/ kɒm /

noun

1. a city in NW central Iran: a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Muslims. Pop: 1 045 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Influential clerics from the holy city of Qom opposed and blocked the move and Ahmadinejad gave in.

From The Daily Beast

I know that the Green Wave has established contacts with members of the clergy in Qom and Teheran.

From The Daily Beast

He specifically said the power lines from Qom to the Shahid Ali Mohammadi complex at Fordow “were cut using explosives.”

From The Daily Beast

In 2009, the Obama administration exposed such a facility carved into a mountain outside of the Shiite holy city of Qom.

From The Daily Beast

The leader of Al Wefaq, Ali Salman, studied in the Iranian seminaries of Qom in the 1980s.

From The Daily Beast