chant

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (archaic) chaunt

Etymology

From Old French chanter, from Latin cantō (“to sing”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /tʃɑːnt/, /tʃant/
• (US) IPA: /tʃænt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːnt

Verb

chant (third-person singular simple present chants, present participle chanting, simple past and past participle chanted)

1. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.

Translations

sing monophonically without instruments

• Bulgarian: напявам (bg) (napjavam)
• Dutch: chanten (nl)
• Finnish: messuta (fi)
• French: chanter (fr)
• Italian: salmodiare (it)

• Nahuatl: tlatoa
• Portuguese: cantar (pt)
• Rapa Nui: rongorongo
• Russian: петь (ru) (petʹ)
• Spanish: (religious) salmodiar (es)

Noun

Wikipedia chant (plural chants)

1. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

Translations

type of singing

• Irish: cantaireacht (ga) f

• Russian: песнопение (ru) (pesnopénije) n

Related terms

• enchant
• Gregorian chant
• incantation

Anagrams

• natch

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Dutch

Verb

chant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chanten
2. imperative of chanten

Anagrams

• nacht

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French

Etymology

From Old French chant, from Latin cantus.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA: /ʃɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /SA~/

Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. song

Synonyms

• chanson

Related terms

• chanter

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Jèrriais

Etymology

Borrowing from French chant.

Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. song

Synonyms

• chanson

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Middle French

Noun

chant m (plural chants or chants)

1. song
   • 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:

     chant de Cycne est praesaige certain de sa mort prochaine

     the song of the swan is a certain prediction of its death

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Old French

Etymology

Latin cantus

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tʃãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

Noun

chant m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural chant)

1. song

Synonyms

• chançon

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Romansch

Verb

chant

1. first-person singular present indicative of chantar

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Welsh

Noun

chant m

1. Cant with the aspirate mutation.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cant	gant	nghant	chant