different between charm vs jynx

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: chärm, IPA^(key): /t???m/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chäm, IPA^(key): /t???m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Etymology 1

From Middle English charme, from Old French charme (“chant, magic spell”), from Latin carmen (“song, incantation”).

Alternative forms

• charme (obsolete)

Noun

charm (countable and uncountable, plural charms)

1. An object, act or words believed to have magic power (usually carries a positive connotation).

   Synonyms: incantation, spell, talisman

2. (often in the plural) The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration.

   Synonyms: appeal, attraction, charisma

   Antonyms: boredom, dryness
3. A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.

   Synonyms: amulet, dangle, ornament

4. (particle physics) A quantum number of hadrons determined by the number of charm quarks and antiquarks.

   Coordinate term: strangeness
5. (finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the instantaneous rate of change of delta with respect to time.

   Synonyms: delta decay, DdeltaDtime

   Hypernym: Greeks

Translations

Verb

charm (third-person singular simple present charms, present participle charming, simple past and past participle charmed)

2. To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.

   Synonyms: delight, enchant, entrance
3. (transitive) To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.

   Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspell
4. To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
5. (obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
6. To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Variant of chirm, from Middle English chirme, from Old English ?ierm (“cry, alarm”), from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.

Noun

charm (plural charms)

1. The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:

     The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.

2. A flock, group (especially of finches).

Further reading

• charm (quantum number) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• charm quark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• March, march

Chinese

Etymology

Shortened from English charming.

Pronunciation

Adjective

charm

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, usually of a male) charming (clarification of this definition is needed)

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English charm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t???m]

Noun

charm c (singular definite charmen, plural indefinite charms)

1. charm (jewelry)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See charme (“to charm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????m]

Verb

charm

1. imperative of charme

Palauan

Noun

charm

1. animal

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?arm/

Noun

charm c

1. charm; the ability to persuade, delight, or arouse admiration

Declension

Related terms

• charma
• charmant
• charmera
• charmig
• charmerande
• charmör

English

Alternative forms

• (adaptations of the Latin nominative singular, iynx) iynx [in the 19th century], jynx [from the 17th century onwards]
• (adaptations of the Latin stem, iyng-) iyng, jyng [both disused after the 17th century]

Etymology

An adaptation of the Latin iynx (“wryneck”), itself an adaptation of the Ancient Greek ???? (íunx, “Eurasian wryneck”, “Jynx torquilla”; figuratively “a spell or charm”, “passionate yearning”), which see for an explanation of the development of its senses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????ks/
• Homophone: jinx
• Rhymes: -??ks

Noun

jynx (plural jynges)

1. A bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
   • 1649, George Daniel, Trinarchodia: Henry V, line ccxcv:

     Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman.

   • 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of Words, “Jynx”:

     Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.

   • 1708, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London XXVI, page 123:

     The Jynx or Wryneck…I first heard this year on March 29.

   • 1845, The Zoologist: A Miscellany of Natural History III, page 1,107:

     Its sharp and harsh cry, resembling a repetition of Jynx, Jynx, Jynx.

   • 1857, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery (1858), volume I, page 297:

     A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands.

2. (transferred sense) A charm or spell.

   Synonym: jinx

   • ante 1693, Sir Thomas Urquhart (translator), François Rabelais (author), The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, chapter i, page 23:

     These are the Philtres, Allurements, Jynges, Inveiglements [les philtres, iynges, et attraictz], Baits, and Enticements of Love.

3. The name of an order of spiritual intelligences in ancient “Chaldaic” philosophy.
   • 1655, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy (1701), page 17/2:

     Then is the Intelligible Jynx; next which are the Synoches, the Empyreal, the Ætherial and the Material; after the Synoches are the Teletarchs…Intelligent Jynges do themselves also understand from the Father By unspeakable Counsels being moved so as to understand.

Derived terms

• jinx

Related terms

• jyngine

Translations

References

• NED V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 3 (J), page 646/3, “Jynx”