Om (disambiguation)

Om is a sacred syllable of Hinduism. The syllable Om is also referred to as Omkara.

OM, om, and variations may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fiction

• Om (1995 film), a 1995 Indian Kannada film
• Om (2003 film), a 2003 Bollywood film
• Omkara (2004 film), a 2004 Indian Kannada film
• Omkara (2006 film), a 2006 Indian Bollywood film
• Great God Om, a fictional deity in the Discworld universe
• Om, the lead character in the 2007 Bollywood film Om Shanti Om

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), a 1969 song
• 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

• Akshay Kumar, is Indian-Canadian actor also known as Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia
• Om Puri, an Indian actor

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
• Olympique de Marseille, a French football club
• Operation Mobilisation, a Christian non-profit missions organization
• Orlando Magic, a basketball team in the NBA
• 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 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 code "om")
• Oto-Manguean languages
• Om (properly Umm) means Mother in the Arabic language.

Places

• Øm Abbey, a Cistercian abbey which was in Søhøjlandet, in Denmark
• Om River, a river in Siberia, Russia
• Oman (ISO 3166 country code OM)
  • .om, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Oman
• Omu Peak (2507 m) 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

• 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

Sport

• Olympique de Marseille, a French football club in Marseille

Other uses

• Minim (religious order), 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
• Old Marlburians, alumni of Marlborough College
• Old Millfieldians, alumni of Millfield School
• Om (actor), Bengali actor
• 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

See also

• Aum (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