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

OM, om, ॐ, 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
  • Rashtra Kavach Om, or Om: The Battle Within, 2022 film by Kapil Verma
  • Om, one of the interpreted titles of Super (2010 Indian 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 Bhutkar, Indian actor
  • 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
  • Rede OM Brasil, a defunct Brazilian television network

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 female masturbation activity promoted by OneTaste
  • 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