psalm
English
/sɑːm/, /sɑm/
noun
Definitions
- (religion) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
- 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.
Etymology
Derived from Middle English salm derived from Old English psealm derived from Old French psalme derived from Latin psalmus (psalm) derived from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (mostly of musical strings, performance on a stringed instrument, the sound emanating from twitching twanging perhaps with the hands fingers, song sung to a harp, psalm, sound of a harp, song, twitching, the sound emenating from twitching twanging perhaps with the hands fingers).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ψαλμός
Gloss
mostly of musical strings, performance on a stringed instrument, the sound emanating from twitching twanging perhaps with the hands fingers, song sung to a harp, psalm, sound of a harp, song, twitching, the sound emenating from twitching twanging perhaps with the hands fingers
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
歌, 唄
Emoji
🎵
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- book English
- psalmbook English
- psalmic English
- psalmist English
- psalmless English
- psalmwriter English
- writer English
- psalmicen Latin
- psalmus Latin
- salmo Italian
- salmo Spanish, Castilian
- ψάλλω Ancient Greek
- ψαλμός Ancient Greek
- ψαλμῳδός Ancient Greek
- psalm Old English
- psealm Old English
- psalm Middle English
- salm Middle English
- salmr Old Norse
- psalme Old French
- psalmo Old High German
- psalms Latvian
- salm Old Irish
- psalënj Albanian
- 𐍀𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌼𐍉 Gothic
- salmo Old Portuguese
- ფსალმუნი Georgian
- Jaam̧ Marshallese
- ψαλμοί grc-koi
- sálbma Pite Sami