Kum or KUM may refer to:

Geography

Kum (mountain) Kum (; Geum River The Geum River is a major river of South Korea that originates in Jangsu-eup, North Jeolla Province. It flows northward through North Jeolla and North Chungcheong Provinces and then changes direction in the vicinity of Greater Daejeon and fl ...

(a.k.a. Kum), a river in South Korea

West Asia

* Kum, Mazandaran, Iran * Kum, West Azerbaijan, Iran *

Qom Qom (; ) is a city in the Central District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. The city is ...

, a city in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

* Qom province, Iran, whose seat is Qom *

Qum, Azerbaijan Qum (also Kum, pronounced Gum) is a village and municipality in the Qakh Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,954. See also * Basilica in Qum village External links References

* Populated places in Qakh District {{Qakh-geo ...

Culture

* Kum, a Slavic form of a godfather or a

groomsman A groomsman or usher is one of the male attendants to the groom in a wedding ceremony. Usually, the groom selects close friends and relatives to serve as groomsmen, and it is considered an honor to be selected. From his groomsmen, the groom usuall ...

, similar to a

blood brother Blood brother can refer to two or more people not related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other. This is in modern times usually done in a ceremony, known as a blood oath, where each person makes a small cut, usually on a finger, han ...

* Kum., an abbreviation of the Indian honorific ''

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i'', used for unmarried women *

Guqin The ''guqin'' (; ) is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument. It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally been favoured by scholars and literati as an instrument of great subtlety and refinement, as highlighted b ...

(a.k.a. Kum or Qin), a Cantonese musical instrument (琴)

People

* Kum, Cantonese form of

Qin (surname) Qín () (秦) is a common Chinese surname. "Qin" is the hanyu pinyin romanization of the surname for Mandarin, the common dialect of China; other romanizations of the surname include Chin and Jin in Mandarin, Ceon and Cheun in Cantonese, and T� ...

(琴) and

Jin (Chinese surname) Jin is the Hanyu pinyin transliteration of a number of Chinese surnames. The most common one, Jīn , literally means "gold" and is 29th in the list of " Hundred Family Surnames". As of 2006, it is ranked the 64th most common Chinese surname and ...

(金) *

Christian Kum Christian Kum (; born 13 September 1985) is a Dutch former professional footballer. He formerly played eight years for ADO Den Haag and two seasons for SC Heerenveen. Club career Kum was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, but moved to the Nether ...

, Dutch footballer *

Kumkum (actress) Kumkum, (born Zaibunnisa Khan; 22 April 1934 – 28 July 2020), was an Indian actress. She is best known for her roles in ''Mr. X in Bombay'' (1964), ''Mother India'' (1957), ''Son of India'' (1962), ''Kohinoor'' (1960), ''Ujala'', ''Naya Daur ...

(a.k.a. Kum Kum), Bollywood actress of 1950s–1970s

Other uses

* ''

Kum-Kum is a Japanese animated television series, consisting of 26 episodes. The plot and characters were created by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and it was directed by Rintaro and first broadcast on TBS between 3 October 1975 and 26 March 1976. The name wa ...

'', an anime *

Yakushima Airport is an airport located on the island of Yakushima in Kumage District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordere ...

, whose IATA airport code is "KUM" *

Kumyk language Kumyk (,L. S. Levitskaya, "Kumyk language", in ''Languages of the world. Turkic languages'' (1997). , ) is a Turkic language spoken by about 520,000 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the ...

(ISO code kum), a Turkic language spoken by the Kumyks