salm

salm (plural salms)

1. Obsolete form of psalm.

• “salm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AMLs, masl, Alms, M.L.A.s, ALMS, alms, MSAL, SLAM, SAML, AMSL, MLAs, MASL, amsl, ALMs, mals, lams, slam, LAMs, Lams

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [salm]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [sɒlm]

salm m

1. A psalm

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠɑl̪ˠəmˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠal̪ˠəmˠ/

salm m (genitive singular sailm, nominative plural sailm)

1. psalm

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “salm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “salm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “salm”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “salm”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• psalm, psalme, psame, salme, saulm, saume, spalme
• sallme, sealm, selm (Early Middle English)

Inherited from Old English psealm, from Late Latin psalmus. Some forms are influenced by Old French salme, saume.

• IPA^(key): /salm/, (after French) /ˈsalm(ə)/, /ˈsau̯m(ə)/

salm (plural salmes)

1. A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)

   Hypernym: ymne

2. (by extension) A Christian hymn or creed.

• English: psalm
• Scots: saum, sawm
• → Middle Welsh: salm
  • Welsh: salm

• “Psalm(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• IPA^(key): /salm/

salm m

1. psalm

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal̪ˠam/

salm f (genitive singular sailm, plural sailm)

1. psalm

• IPA^(key): [salm]

salm (nominative plural salms)

1. (male or female) salmon (fish)

Inherited from Middle Welsh salm, from Middle English salm, from Latin psalmus.

• IPA^(key): /salm/
• Rhymes: -alm

salm f (plural salmau, not mutable)

1. psalm

• Salmau (“Book of Psalms”)
• salmydd (“psalmist”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “salm”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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salm c (plural salm’m)

1. salmom

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