Sloma is a surname. It is derived from Shlomo, the Hebrew name of Solomon.
Sloma is a surname. It is derived from the Polish Slavonic word słoma. "The word słoma in the sense ‘dry cereal stalks’, recorded in Polish since the 15th c., is a Slavic form (cf. Czech sláma, Russian solóma, Serbo-Croatian slama etc.) and is related to the German Halm ‘stalk’, Lat. culmus ‘stalk, blade of grass’, Greek kalamos, Old Indic calakas ‘stalk’."
Notable people with the surname include:
- Michał Słoma (born 1982), Polish rower
- Sam Sloma (born 1982), English football player
- Ulrich Sloma (born 1942), German field hockey player
References
- "SLOMA Origin of surname". dbs.anumuseum.org.il.
- "The linguacultural view of Polish słoma 'straw': An ethnolinguistic account" (PDF). cejsh.icm.edu.pl.
- "Sloma". en.wiktionary.org.
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