different between salm vs psalm

English

Noun

salm (plural salms)

1. Obsolete form of psalm.

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Anagrams

• AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, SLAM, alms, lams, mals, masl, slam

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [salm]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [s?lm]

Noun

salm m

1. A psalm

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish salm, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /?s??l???m?/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?s?al???m?/

Noun

salm m (genitive singular sailm, nominative plural sailm)

1. psalm

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “salm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "salm" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “salm” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “salm” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salm/

Noun

salm m

1. psalm

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal??am/

Noun

salm f (genitive singular sailm, plural sailm)

1. psalm

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [salm]

Noun

salm (nominative plural salms)

1. (male or female) salmon (fish)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salm/

Noun

salm f (plural salmau, not mutable)

1. A psalm

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

salm c (plural salmen, diminutive salmke)

1. salmon

Further reading

• “salm”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

From Middle English salm or psalme, from Old English psealm, later reinforced from Old French psalme (modern French psaume), both from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós, “the sound emanating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”) (from ????? (psáll?, “to make a sound by striking, touching, plucking, rubbing, twanging, or vibrating”)), but later in New Testament times the meaning of ?????? (psalmós) evolved from its Classical meaning of "a tune played to the harp" to a more general tune that could be played with any instrument; even a song sung with or without musical accompaniment. By the Byzantine Period, it lost all of its instrumental nuances.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s?m/, /s?lm/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

psalm (plural psalms)

1. (religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
2. One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

Derived terms

• psalmist
• psalmodic
• psalmody
• Psalms (name of the book of the Bible in which the psalms are collected)

Related terms

• psalter

Translations

Verb

psalm (third-person singular simple present psalms, present participle psalming, simple past and past participle psalmed)

1. To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing

   to psalm his praises.

   • 2012, George D. Manjounes, Good Morning, Morning Glory

     I psalmed like a Moslem high in his mosque. And like a Greek priest, I sang the divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lamps, Palms, lamps, palms, plasm

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

psalm m (plural psalmen, diminutive psalmpje n)

1. (music) psalm

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /psalm/

Noun

psalm m inan

1. (music) psalm

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic ?????? (psal?m?), from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós)

Noun

psalm m (plural psalmi)

1. psalm

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse salmr, psalmr, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós, “the sound emenating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”).

Noun

psalm c

1. a hymn, a church song
2. a psalm of David, one of the chapters of the book of Psalms

Usage notes

• Denominations in Sweden outside of the Church of Sweden (e.g. baptists) have traditionally not used the word psalm, but rather visa, sång (song). Recent integrated hymnbooks are titled Psalmer och visor (1976) and Psalmer och Sånger (1987) to indicated that they cover both the Church of Sweden and other denominations.

Declension

Anagrams

• Palms, palms