Rum (disambiguation)

Rum may refer to the following:

* Rum, a spirit made from sugar-cane by-products such as molasses or sugar cane juice
* Rûm was the term by which Muslims referred to the Christian Europeans in general, and the Eastern Romans (Byzantines) in particular in the Middle Ages. Deriving from this:
** Sultanate of Rûm, a Seljuk sultanate, established on conquered Byzantine territory from 1077 to 1307; later the Ottoman Rüm Province, in northern Anatolia.
** Rumelia, the "land of the Romans", the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
** Ar-Rum, "the Romans", the 30th sura of the Qur'an.

Places named Rum include:

* Rùm (or Rum or Rhum), Scottish island
* Rum, Austria, Tyrolean market town
* Rum Cay, Bahamas island
* Rum, Hungary, village
* Rum Island (Tasmania), Australian island
* Rum River, waterway near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

As an acronym, RUM stands for:

* University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
* Rigid Unit Modes, phonon modes in which polyhedra are free to move by translation and/or rotation without distortion