saloma

Borrowed from Spanish saloma.

• Hyphenation: sa‧lo‧ma

saloma

1. a sea shanty; a work song that sailors sang in rhythm to their movement

Inherited from Latin celeusma (“call to keep time while rowing”), from Ancient Greek κέλευσμα (kéleusma, “call, order”). Doublet of chusma.

• IPA^(key): /saˈloma/ [saˈlo.ma]
• Rhymes: -oma
• Syllabification: sa‧lo‧ma

saloma f (plural salomas)

1. shanty, work song

• “saloma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024