different between shalm vs shawm

English

Noun

shalm (plural shalms)

1. Obsolete form of shawm.
   • 1827 Thomas Carlyle, The Fair-Haired Eckbert

     These few words were continually repeated, and to describe the sound, it was as if you heard forest-horns and shalms sounded together from a far distance.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Paris flings up her windows, claps hands, as the Avengers, with their shrilling drums and shalms tramp by....

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “shalm”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• halms

Irish

Noun

shalm m

1. Lenited form of salm.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chalemel (French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kálamos). Doublet of chalumeau and probably caramel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

shawm (plural shawms)

1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked,

     There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.

Synonyms

• zurna

Derived terms

• Catalan shawm
• shawmist, shawmer
• still shawm

Translations

Anagrams

• hawms, whams