chant

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (archaic) chaunt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɑːnt/, /tʃant/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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.
   • Spenser

     The cheerful birds […] do chant sweet music.

Translations

sing monophonically without instruments

• Bulgarian: напявам (napjavam)
• Dutch: chanten, zingen (nl)
• Finnish: messuta
• French: chanter (fr)
• Italian: salmodiare (it)
• Maori: oriori

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

Noun

Wikipedia

chant (plural chants)

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

Translations

type of singing

• Irish: cantaireacht f
• Maori: oriori, whakaoriori

• Russian: песнопение (ru) n (pesnopénije)

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^(key): /ʃɑ̃/

Noun

chant m (plural chants)

1. song
2. The discipline of singing

Synonyms

• (song): 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^(key): /tʃãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

Noun

chant m (oblique plural chanz, nominative singular chanz, 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