| Word form | purum |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Czech translation | cibule |
| Hungarian translation | hagyma |
| Grammatical info | noun, feminine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *purúm F ‘onion’ |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 228: “ohne Etymologie” |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 106: < Dravidian: Tamil pūṇḍu ‘onion, garlic’ |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 138: < Serbian purjan |
| Other etymologies | – Manuš (1994: 34): Dravidian: Tamil pūṇḍu, cf. also Sanskrit palāṇḍu M ‘onion’; some authors have thought of Latin porrum, Russian por’éj, Italian porro |