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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English sermoun , from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon , from Latin sermō, sermōnem , from Proto-Indo-European *sermō , from *ser- ( “ to bind ” ) + *-mō .
Pronunciation
Noun
sermon (plural sermons )
Religious discourse ; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
1918 , W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC :One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis [ …] interrupted the sermon , he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
A lengthy speech of reproval .
Derived terms
Translations
religious discourse
Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: predikim (sq) m
Arabic: مَوْعِظَة f ( mawʕiẓa ) , خُطْبَة f ( ḵuṭba ) , وَعْظ m ( waʕẓ )
Armenian: քարոզ (hy) ( kʻaroz )
Azerbaijani: vəz , xütbə (az)
Bashkir: хөтбә ( xötbə )
Belarusian: каза́нне n ( kazánnje ) , ка́зань f ( kázanʹ ) , про́паведзь f ( própavjedzʹ )
Bengali: খুতবা (bn) ( khutoba ) , ওয়াজ (bn) ( ōẇaj )
Bulgarian: про́повед (bg) f ( própoved )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: sermó (ca) m
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 講道 / 讲道 (zh) ( jiǎngdào ) , 布道 (zh) ( bùdào ) , 說教 / 说教 (zh) ( shuōjiào )
Cornish: pregoth m
Czech: kázání (cs) n
Danish: prædiken c
Dutch: preek (nl) c
Esperanto: prediko
Estonian: jutlus
Finnish: saarna (fi)
French: sermon (fr) m , prêche (fr) m
Galician: sermón (gl) m
Georgian: ქადაგება ( kadageba )
German: Predigt (de) f
Greek: κήρυγμα (el) n ( kírygma )
Ancient: κήρυγμα n ( kḗrugma )
Hebrew: דְּרָשָׁה , הַטָּפָה
Hindi: उपदेश (hi) m ( updeś ) , प्रवचन (hi) m ( pravcan )
Hungarian: prédikáció (hu) , szentbeszéd (hu)
Icelandic: predikun f
Ido: prediko (io)
Indonesian: khotbah (id)
Irish: seanmóir f
Old Irish: precept f
Italian: sermone (it) m , predica (it) f
Japanese: 説教 (ja) ( せっきょう, sekkyō )
Kazakh: уағыз ( uağyz )
Khmer: ទេសនា (km) ( teisaʼnaa )
Korean: 설교(說敎) (ko) ( seolgyo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: weiz (ku) , xutbe (ku)
Kyrgyz: үгүт (ky) ( ügüt ) , кутпа ( kutpa )
Lao: ເທດ ( thēt ) , ເທສະນາ ( thē sa nā )
Latvian: sprediķis (lv) m
Lithuanian: pamokslas m
Macedonian: про́повед f ( própoved ) , сло́во (mk) n ( slóvo ) , беседа f ( beseda )
Malay: khutbah , khotbah
Manx: sharmane f
Maori: kauwhau
Marathi: प्रवचन n ( pravcan )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: preken m
Nynorsk: preike f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: проповѣдь f ( propovědĭ )
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish: وعظ ( vaʼz )
Pashto: موعظه f ( mo'eza ) , وعظ m ( wa'z ) , خطبه (ps) f ( xotba )
Persian: موعظه (fa) ( mow'eze ) , خطابه (fa) ( xetâbe ) , وعظ (fa) ( va'z ) , خطبه (fa) ( xotbe )
Plautdietsch: Prädicht f
Polish: kazanie (pl) n
Portuguese: sermão (pt) m
Romanian: predică (ro) f , propovedanie (ro) f , cazanie (ro) f
Russian: про́поведь (ru) f ( própovedʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: searmon m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: про̏пове̄д f , про̏повије̄д f
Roman: prȍpovēd (sh) f , prȍpovijēd (sh) f
Slovak: kázanie n , kázeň f
Slovene: pridiga (sl) f
Spanish: sermón (es)
Swahili: hotuba (sw) , mahubiri
Swedish: predikan (sv) c , betraktelse (sv) c
Tajik: мавъиза ( mavʾiza ) , ваъз ( vaʾz ) , хутба ( xutba )
Tatar: хөтбә (tt) ( xötbä )
Thai: เทศน์ (th) ( têet ) , เทศนา (th) ( têet-sà-nǎa )
Turkish: vaaz (tr) , hutbe (tr)
Turkmen: wagyz
Ukrainian: про́повідь f ( própovidʹ ) , каза́ння (uk) n ( kazánnja )
Urdu: وعظ ( va'z ) , خطبہ f ( xutba )
Uyghur: نەسىھەت ( nesihet ) , خۇتبە ( xutbe )
Uzbek: vaʼz (uz) , xutba (uz)
Vietnamese: thuyết giáo (vi)
Walloon: siermon (wa) m , pretchmint (wa) m , pretchaedje (wa) m
Welsh: pregeth (cy) f
speech of reproval
Armenian: քարոզ (hy) ( kʻaroz )
Bulgarian: (please verify ) конско (bg) n ( konsko )
Catalan: sermó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 說教 / 说教 (zh) ( shuōjiào )
Dutch: preek (nl) , donderpreek (nl)
Esperanto: admono
Finnish: saarna (fi)
French: sermon (fr) m , prêche (fr) m
Galician: sermón (gl) m
German: Predigt (de) f , Moralpredigt (de) f , Strafpredigt (de) f
Greek: επίπληξη (el) f ( epíplixi )
Ancient: ἐπίπληξις f ( epíplēxis )
Italian: sermone (it) m , predica (it) f , arringa (it) f
Polish: kazanie (pl) n
Portuguese: sermão (pt) m
Romanian: predică (ro) f
Russian: поуче́ние (ru) n ( poučénije ) , нота́ция (ru) f ( notácija ) , про́поведь (ru) f ( própovedʹ ) , нравоуче́ние (ru) n ( nravoučénije )
Spanish: sermón (es) m
Swedish: förmaning (sv) c , straffpredikan c , moralpredikan c
Turkish: vaaz (tr) , nutuk (tr)
Walloon: siermon (wa) m
Etymology 2
From Middle English sermonen , from Old French sermoner , from sermon (see above).
Verb
sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons , present participle sermoning , simple past and past participle sermoned )
( poetic , obsolete ) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon .
January 23 1583 , Edmund Spenser , letter to Walter Raleigh
To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises
( poetic , obsolete ) To tutor ; to lecture .
c. 1605–1608 , William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , , line 177 :Come, sermon me no further.
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French sermon , from Latin sermōnem .
Pronunciation
Noun
sermon m (plural sermons )
sermon ( religious speech )
sermon ( lengthy reproval )
Further reading
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman sermun .
Noun
sermon
Alternative form of sermoun
Etymology 2
From Old French sermoner .
Verb
sermon
Alternative form of sermonen
Old French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem .
Noun
sermon oblique singular , m (oblique plural sermons , nominative singular sermons , nominative plural sermon )
sermon (religious)
Descendants
References
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sermón , from Latin sermōnem .
Pronunciation
Noun
sermón or sermon (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔ )
sermon ( especially by a priest )
moral lecture
Synonyms: aral , pangaral , pangangaral
( colloquial ) long scolding ( especially by a parent or superior )
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
“sermon ”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila, 2018