laud

See also: Laud and laúd

English

WOTD – 27 February 2010

Etymology

From Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /lɑd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːd

Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Glorification or praise.
   • 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “The Obedience of Subiectes vnto Kynges Princes and Rulers. The .XIIJ. Chapter of Paul Rom.”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xxxiij, verso:

     So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]

   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Laud be to God

2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

   Synonym: ainoi

Translations

praise or glorification

• Bulgarian: похвала (bg) f (pohvala), възхвала (bg) f (vǎzhvala)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讚揚 / 赞扬 (zh) (zànyáng), 讚頌 / 赞颂 (zh) (zànsòng)

• Esperanto: laŭdo
• Finnish: ylistys (fi)
• Hindi: प्रशंसा (hi) f (praśansā), स्तुति (hi) f (stuti)
• Italian: lode (it) f
• Macedonian: по́фалба f (pófalba), вели́чање n (velíčanje), сла́ва (mk) f (sláva)
• Portuguese: louva (pt) f
• Romanian: laudă (ro) f
• Russian: хвала́ (ru) f (xvalá), восхвале́ние (ru) n (vosxvalénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: slaviti (sh)
• Spanish: laude (es) f, lauro (es) m, loor (es) m

hymn of praise

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讚頌 / 赞颂 (zh) (zànsòng), 讚美詩 / 赞美诗 (zh) (zànměishī)

• Dutch: lofzang (nl) c
• Finnish: ylistyslaulu (fi)
• Hindi: स्तुति (hi) f (stuti)
• Macedonian: по́хвала f (póhvala)
• Portuguese: louvor (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: lauda f, hvalospjev (sh) m

Verb

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.

   Synonyms: commend, exalt, extol; see also Thesaurus:glorify

   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke j:[64], folio lxxiij, verso:

     And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 485:

     The most recognised and lauded dictionary of Indian English today is Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, first published in 1886 and updated by William Crooke in 1903.

Derived terms

• belaud
• laudable
• laudingly
• overlaud
• unlauded

Related terms

• leed
• lied

Translations

to praise, to glorify

• Albanian: lëvdoj (sq), lavdëroj (sq)
• Aromanian: alavdu
• Bulgarian: хваля (bg) (hvalja), славя (bg) (slavja)
• Catalan: lloar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讚揚 / 赞扬 (zh) (zànyáng), 讚頌 / 赞颂 (zh) (zànsòng), 讚美 / 赞美 (zh) (zànměi)

• Dutch: prijzen (nl), loven (nl), ophemelen (nl)
• Esperanto: laŭdi
• Finnish: ylistää (fi)
• French: glorifier (fr), célébrer (fr), exalter (fr)
• German: preisen (de)
• Hindi: प्रशंसा करना (praśansā karnā)
• Hungarian: dicsőít (hu)
• Ido: laudar (io)
• Italian: lodare (it), glorificare (it)
• Latin: laudo (la)
• Maori: whakahira
• Middle English: commenden
• Portuguese: louvar (pt)
• Romanian: lăuda (ro)
• Russian: восхваля́ть (ru) impf (vosxvaljátʹ)
• Sanskrit: स्तौति (sa) (stauti), ईडयति (sa) (īḍayati)
• Serbo-Croatian: slaviti (sh)
• Spanish: loar (es), laudar (es)
• Telugu: మెచ్చుకొను (te) (meccukonu)
• Vietnamese: khen ngợi (vi)
• Zulu: -bonga, -dumisa

See also

• besing
• canonical hours
• lauder

Further reading

• “laud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “laud”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “laud”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lauta, possibly from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plaũtas and Latvian plàukts.

Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

Declension

Declension of laud (ÕS type 22u/leib, d-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		laud	lauad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	laua
genitive			laudade
partitive		lauda	laudu laudasid
illative		lauda lauasse	laudadesse
inessive		lauas	laudades
elative		lauast	laudadest
allative		lauale	laudadele
adessive		laual	laudadel
ablative		laualt	laudadelt
translative		lauaks	laudadeks
terminative		lauani	laudadeni
essive		lauana	laudadena
abessive		lauata	laudadeta
comitative		lauaga	laudadega

Derived terms

• lauamäng
• söögilaud

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

Noun

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

Related terms

• laudâ

Ilocano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaʔud/ [ˈlɐ.ʔud]
• Hyphenation: la‧ud

Noun

laud

1. west

See also

compass points:  ^[edit]

amianan a laud	amianan	amianan a daya
laud		daya
abagatan a laud	abagatan	abagatan a daya

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lauta. Akin to Finnish lauta.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈla.ud]

Verb

laud

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of lăuda

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lauta. Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

Noun

laud

1. board
2. plank

Inflection

Inflection of laud (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	laud
genitive sing.	laudan
partitive sing.	laudad
partitive plur.	laudoid
	singular	plural
nominative	laud	laudad
accusative	laudan	laudad
genitive	laudan	laudoiden
partitive	laudad	laudoid
essive-instructive	laudan	laudoin
translative	laudaks	laudoikš
inessive	laudas	laudoiš
elative	laudaspäi	laudoišpäi
illative	laudaha	laudoihe
adessive	laudal	laudoil
ablative	laudalpäi	laudoilpäi
allative	laudale	laudoile
abessive	laudata	laudoita
comitative	laudanke	laudoidenke
prolative	laudadme	laudoidme
approximative I	laudanno	laudoidenno
approximative II	laudannoks	laudoidennoks
egressive	laudannopäi	laudoidennopäi
terminative I	laudahasai	laudoihesai
terminative II	laudalesai	laudoilesai
terminative III	laudassai	—
additive I	laudahapäi	laudoihepäi
additive II	laudalepäi	laudoilepäi

Derived terms

• čukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• laudasine
• laudkund
• laudsein
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “доска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la.ˈud]

Noun

laud (nominative plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

Declension

Declension of laud

	singular	plural
nominative	laud	lauds
genitive	lauda	laudas
dative	laude	laudes
accusative	laudi	laudis
vocative 1	o laud!	o lauds!
predicative 2	laudu	laudus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

• böd
• nim

Hyponyms

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

Derived terms

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”), Lullula arborea
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata