hymn

EnglishEdit

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hymn

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English ymne, borrowed from Old French ymne, from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).

PronunciationEdit

enPR: hĭm, IPA^(key): /hɪm/
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Rhymes: -ɪm
Homophone: him

NounEdit

hymn (plural hymns)

A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
  
  But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

a song of praise or worship

Afrikaans: himne
Albanian: himn (sq)
Amharic: ማሕሌት (maḥlet), ሐልዮ (ḥälyo)
Arabic: تَرْتِيلَة‎ f (tartīla), تَرْنِيمَة‎ f (tarnīma), تَسْبِيحَة‎ f (tasbīḥa)
Egyptian Arabic: ترتيل‎ m (tartīl)
Armenian: ձոն (hy) (jon), գովերգ (hy) (goverg), ներբող (hy) (nerboł), օրհներգ (hy) (ōrhnerg)
Asturian: himnu m
Azerbaijani: himn (az)
Bashkir: гимн (gimn)
Basque: ereserki
Belarusian: гімн m (himn)
Bengali: স্তবগান (śtôbgan)
Breton: kaniri f
Bulgarian: химн (bg) m (himn)
Burmese: ချီးမွမ်းသီချင်း (hkyi:mwam:sihkyang:)
Catalan: himne (ca) m
Chechen: гимн (gimn)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 頌 (zh), 颂 (zh) (sòng), 讚美詩 (zh), 赞美诗 (zh) (zànměishī), 聖歌 (zh), 圣歌 (zh) (shènggē)
Crimean Tatar: gimn
Czech: chvalozpěv (cs) m, chorál (cs) m, hymnus (cs) m
Danish: hymne c
Dutch: lofzang (nl) f, hymne (nl) f
Esperanto: himno (eo)
Estonian: hümn
Faroese: lovsongur m
Finnish: hymni (fi)
French: hymne (fr) m or f
Friulian: imni m
Galician: himno (gl) m
Georgian: ჰიმნი (ka) (himni)
German: Hymne (de) f (now rare in this sense), Hymnus (de) m, Kirchenlied (de) n, Loblied n
Greek: ύμνος (el) m (ýmnos)
Ancient: ὕμνος m (húmnos)
Gujarati: ભજન (bhajan), સ્તોત્ર (stotra), ઋચા (rucā)
Hebrew: זמירה‎ (z"mirah)
Hindi: भजन (hi) m (bhajan), स्तोत्र (hi) (stotra)
Hungarian: himnusz (hu)
Icelandic: sálmur m, lofsöngur (is) m
Ido: himno (io)
Indonesian: gita puja (id), himne (id)
Irish: iomann m
Italian: inno (it) m
Japanese: 賛美歌 (さんびか, sanbika), 聖歌 (せいか, seika), 賛歌 (さんか, sanka)
Kashubian: himn m
Kazakh: гимн (gïmn)
Korean: 찬가 (ko) (changa)
Latin: hymnus m
Latvian: himna f

Lithuanian: himnas m
Luxembourgish: Kierchelidd n
Macedonian: химна f (himna)
Malay: gita puja
Malayalam: ദൈവസ്തുതി (daivastuti), സ്തോത്രം (ml) (stōtraṃ), സങ്കീർത്തനം (ml) (saṅkīrttanaṃ)
Maltese: innu
Maori: himene
Marathi: ईशस्तोत्र (īśastotra), भजन (bhajan)
Motu: ane
Nahuatl: cuicatl (nah)
Norman: cantique m
Norwegian: hymne (no) m
Occitan: imne (oc) m
Ossetian: гимн (gimn)
Persian: سرود‎ (fa) (sorud), گاتا‎ (gâtâ), یسنا‎ (fa) (yasnâ)
Plautdietsch: Kjoakjenleet n
Polish: hymn (pl) m
Portuguese: hino (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੀਤ m (gīt), ਪਦ m (pad), ਭਜਨ m (bhajan)
Romanian: imn (ro) n
Romansch: imni m
Russian: гимн (ru) m (gimn)
Scots: hime
Scottish Gaelic: laoidh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: химна f, славопојка f, славопев m, славопевка f

Roman: himna (sh) f, slavopojka (sh) f, slavopev m, slavopevka f
Slovak: chválospev m, hymnus m
Slovene: himna (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: hymna f

Upper Sorbian: hymna f
Spanish: himno (es) m
Swahili: wimbo (sw)
Swedish: hymn (sv) c, lovsång (sv) c
Tagalog: himno (tl)
Tamil: பாசுரம் (ta) (pācuram), தேவாரம் (ta) (tēvāram)
Thai: เพลงสวด (pleeng-sùuat)
Tibetan: ཆོས་གླུ (chos glu), མགུར (mgur)
Turkish: ilahi (tr)
Turkmen: gimn
Ukrainian: гімн m (himn)
Urdu: حَمْد‎ (ur) f (ḥamd)
Uzbek: madhiya (uz)
Vietnamese: thánh ca (vi)
Volapük: hüm (vo)
Welsh: emyn m
West Frisian: hymne
Yiddish: הימנע‎ f (himne)

VerbEdit

hymn (third-person singular simple present hymns, present participle hymning, simple past and past participle hymned)

(transitive, intransitive) To sing a hymn.
- 2009 January 21, Michael Coveney, “Tom O'Horgan”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second.
(transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
- 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], OCLC 1029642537:
  
  To hymn the birth-night of the Lord.
- 1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, canto III, stanza XXIX:
  Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.