psalm

Etymology
From or, from , later reinforced from  (modern French ), both from , from  (from ), but later in New Testament times the meaning of  evolved from its Classical meaning of "a tune played to the harp" to a more general tune that could be played with any instrument; even a song sung with or without musical accompaniment. By the Byzantine Period, it lost all of its instrumental nuances.

Noun

 * 1)  A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
 * 2) 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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: psalm
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَزْمُور
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: məzmur
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: псало́м, пса́льма
 * Breton: salm
 * Bulgarian: псало́м, псалм
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 詩篇
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: salm
 * Czech:
 * Danish: salme
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: psalm
 * Faroese: sálmur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: salmo
 * Georgian: ფსალმუნი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍀𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌼𐍉
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sálmur
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kirkkovers, jumalanlaulu
 * Irish: salm
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: psalmus
 * Latvian: psalms
 * Lithuanian: psalmė
 * Macedonian: псалм
 * Malay: mazmur
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: salm, salmi
 * Manx: saum, sawm
 * Middle English: salm
 * Norman: sieaume
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: salme
 * Nynorsk: salme
 * Occitan: salme
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: ѱалъмъ
 * Old East Slavic: псалъмъ
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Psalm
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: psalm
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: salm
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: псалм
 * Roman: psalm
 * Slovak: žalm
 * Slovene:
 * Sogdian: ܡܙܡܘܪ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salmo
 * Tajik: забур
 * Thai: เพลงสวด
 * Turkish:, mezmur, zebur
 * Ukrainian: псало́м
 * Urdu: مَزمُور
 * Uzbek:, psalom
 * Vietnamese:, thánh thi
 * Welsh: salm
 * West Frisian: psalm


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: zəbur
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎧᏃᎩᏛ
 * Cornish: salm
 * Czech:
 * Danish: salme
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: psalmi
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფსალმუნი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍀𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌼𐍉
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: salm
 * Italian:
 * Kannada:
 * Latin: psalmus
 * Maori:
 * Middle English: salm, sauter
 * Ngazidja Comorian: zaɓura
 * Norman: sieaume
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: salme
 * Nynorsk: salme
 * Plautdietsch: Psalm
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: salm
 * Sogdian: ܡܙܡܘܪ
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: salmo
 * Turkish:, zebur, mezmur
 * Vilamovian: psolm
 * Welsh: salm

Verb

 * 1) To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing
 * to psalm his praises.

Translations

 * Albanian:, psalmój
 * Catalan:, psalmejar
 * Finnish:

Noun

 * 1)  psalm

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology
From, , from , , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a hymn, a church song
 * 2) a  of David, one of the chapters of the book of Psalms

Usage notes

 * Denominations in Sweden outside of the Church of Sweden (e.g. baptists) have traditionally not used the word psalm, but rather visa, sång (song). Recent integrated hymnbooks are titled Psalmer och visor (1976) and Psalmer och Sånger (1987) to indicated that they cover both the Church of Sweden and other denominations.