different between shawm vs sawm

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

English

Alternative forms

• saum

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?awm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), probably borrowed from Classical Syriac ????? (?awm??).

Noun

sawm (uncountable)

1. (Islam) fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam

Translations

See also

• Lent
• Yom Kippur

Further reading

• Fasting in the Quraan

Anagrams

• MAWs, MSAW, Maws, WMAs, awms, maws, swam, wasm