psalm

FREQ #30293

n. 圣诗, 圣歌, 诗篇 vt. 唱(圣歌)

发音

UK /sɑːm/
US /sɑm/
US /sɑlm/
US /sɔm/
US /sɔlm/
US /sæm/

词形变化

psalms 复数 psalms psalmed psalming psalms 三单 psalming 现在分词 psalmed 过去式 psalmed 过去分词

别名

psalme salm

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    诗篇

    音乐 宗教
  2. 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.

v.
  1. 1.

    To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing

    to psalm his praises.

词汇关系

动词

上位词 1

词源

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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