psalm
UK/sɑːm//sɑm/
psalm noun: a sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
Noun
psalm (plural psalms)
Verb
psalm (third-person singular simple present psalms, present participle psalming, simple past and past participle psalmed)
- To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing
- to psalm his praises.
- I psalmed like a Moslem high in his mosque. And like a Greek priest, I sang the divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.2012, George D. Manjounes, Good Morning, Morning Glory
psalm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
psalm in Hindi
- sacred song
- भजन bhajan
psalm in Tamil
- psalm, hymn
- சங்கீதம் caṅkītam
psalm in Urdu
- sacred song
- مَزمُور mazmūr
psalm in Bengali
- বাইবেলের স্তোত্র, গীত
More languagesFewer languages
- psalm in Telugu
- కీర్తన
- psalm in Malayalam
- സങ്കീർത്തനം saṅkīṟttanaṁ
- psalm in Kannada
- ಕೀರ್ತನೆ kīrtane
- psalm in Punjabi
- ਜ਼ਬੂਰ
- psalm in Tagalog
- salmo
- psalm in Arabic
- مَزْمُور mazmūr
- psalm in Malay
- mazmur
- psalm in Indonesian
- mazmur, psalm
- psalm in Thai
- เพลงสวด pleeng-sùuat
- psalm in Vietnamese
- thánh ca, thánh thi
Examples of psalm in a sentence
- Psalm pointings sometimes differ between psalters.
- His psalms were sung to the tissing larch, his hymns to the purple heath.
- Not all psalms that claim Davidic authorship were included in the canon, but those that were canonized frequently had this association.
Forms of psalm
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | psalms |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | psalms |
| present participle | psalming |
| past participle | psalmed |
| past | psalmed |
Origin of psalm
From Middle English salm or psalme, from Old English psealm, later reinforced from Old French psalme (modern French psaume), both from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “the sound emanating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”) (from ψάλλω (psállō, “to make a sound by striking, touching, plucking, rubbing, twanging, or vibrating”)), but later in New Testament times the meaning of ψαλμός (psalmós) 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.
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Questions about psalm
- What does psalm mean?
- Psalm means a sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
- What is psalm in Hindi?
- Psalm in Hindi is भजन (bhajan). See Psalm meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is psalm?
- Psalm can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce psalm?
- Psalm is pronounced /sɑːm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of psalm?
- The plural of psalm is psalms.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: psalm (page history and authors); சங்கீதம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); psalm (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psalm (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); psalm (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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