psalm
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a hymn, a church song
- a psalm of David, one of the chapters of the book of Psalms
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse salmr 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
- psalmicen Latin
- psalmus Latin
- salmo Italian
- salmo Spanish, Castilian
- ψάλλω Ancient Greek
- ψαλμός Ancient Greek
- ψαλμῳδός Ancient Greek
- salme Norwegian Bokmål
- salme Norwegian Nynorsk
- psalm Old English
- psealm Old English
- salmr Old Norse
- salme Danish
- psalme Old French
- sálmur Icelandic
- psalmo Old High German
- psalms Latvian
- salm Old Irish
- sálmur Faroese
- psalënj Albanian
- 𐍀𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌼𐍉 Gothic
- salmo Old Portuguese
- ფსალმუნი Georgian
- ψαλμοί grc-koi
- sálbma Pite Sami