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shalm

shalm is the obsolete form of shawm.

Meaning of shawm

Noun

shawm (plural shawms)

  1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
    • And all the field is thick with companies
      Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes
      And gather honey of the yellow fruits
      Between the branches waxen soft and wide1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “St. Dorothy”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 288
    Synonyms:
    zurna

Forms of shalm

pluralshalms

Questions about shalm

What is shalm the obsolete form of?
Shalm is the obsolete form of shawm.

Words near shalm in the dictionary

  1. shallowness
  2. shallownesses
  3. shallowpate
  4. shallowpates
  5. shallows
  6. shalm
  7. shalmali
  8. shalms
  9. shalom
  10. shalom aleichem
  11. shalomed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shalm (page history and authors); shawm (page history and authors). 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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