hymn

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ymne, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French ymne, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hymnus, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos)

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭm, IPA^(key): /hɪm/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: him

Noun

hymn (plural hymns)

1. A song of praise or worship.
   • Template:RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt

     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 terms

• hymnal
• hymnbook
• hymnodist
• hymnody

• hymnology
• hymnographer
• hymnography

Translations

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) (nerboġ), օրհներգ (hy) (ōrhnerg)
• Asturian: himnu m
• Azerbaijani: himn (az)
• Bashkir: гимн (gimn)
• Basque: ereserki
• Belarusian: гімн m (himn)
• Bengali: স্তবগান (stobogan)
• Breton: kaniri f
• Bulgarian: химн (bg) m (himn)
• Burmese: ချီးမွမ်းသီချင်း (hkyi:mwam:sihkyang:)
• Catalan: himne (ca) m
• Chechen: гимн (gimn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頌／颂 (zh), 颂 (zh) (sòng), 讚美詩／赞美诗 (zh) (zànměishī), 赞美诗 (zh) (zànměishī), 聖歌／圣歌 (zh) (shènggē), 圣歌 (zh) (shènggē)

• Crimean Tatar: gimn
• Czech: chvalozpěv (cs) m, chorál (cs) m, hymnus 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
• 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 (ŕcā)
• 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 (gimn)
• Korean: 찬가 (ko) (chan'ga)
• Latin: hymnus m
• Latvian: himna f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: himnas m
• Luxembourgish: Kierchelidd n
• Macedonian: химна f (himna)
• Malay: gita puja
• Malayalam: ദൈവസ്തുതി (daivastuti), സ്തോത്രം (ml) (stōtraṁ), സങ്കീർത്തനം (ml) (saṅkīṟttanaṁ)
• 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)
• 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)
• Uzbek: madhiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: thánh ca (vi)
• Volapük: hüm (vo)
• Welsh: emyn m
• West Frisian: hymne
• Yiddish: הימנע f (himne)

Verb

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

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To praise or extol in hymns.
   • (Can we date this quote by Keble and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     To hymn the bright of the Lord.

   • (Can we date this quote by Byron and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.

See also

• theody

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɨmn/

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Noun

hymn m inan

1. anthem
2. hymn

Declension

Declension of hymn

	singular	plural
nominative	hymn	hymny
genitive	hymnu	hymnów
dative	hymnowi	hymnom
accusative	hymn	hymny
instrumental	hymnem	hymnami
locative	hymnie	hymnach
vocative	hymnie	hymny

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Swedish

Noun

hymn c

1. hymn, anthem

Declension

Declension of hymn
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hymn	hymnen	hymner	hymnerna
Genitive	hymns	hymnens	hymners	hymnernas