• Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: charme - 1. grace, delight, appeal; 2. spell; 3. [bot.] hornbeam


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
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Czech noun: šarm ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Danish noun: charme, verb: charmere ... 'meaning 1;

verb: a) to attract or delight greatly; b) to induce by using strong personal attractiveness'

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Dutch noun: charme ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
English noun: charm, verb: to charme chanting or reciting verses of magical power: 13c,

pleasing quality: 16c,

small trinket fastened to a watch-chain, etc.: 19c

'meaning 1, 2;

and also: a) a small ornament, such as one worn on a bracelet; b) an item worn for its supposed magical benefit, as in warding off evil; an amulet; c) Physics: a quantum property of the charm quark whose conservation explains the absence of certain strange-particle decay modes and that accounts for the longevity of the J particle

verb: a) to attract or delight greatly; b) to induce by using strong personal attractiveness; c) to cast or seem to cast a spell on; bewitch'

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Estonian noun: sarm ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German noun: Charme, also Scharm ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Latvian noun: šarms ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian noun: sjarm ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese noun: charme ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian noun: šarm ... 'meaning 1' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish noun: charm, verb: charma ... 'meaning 1;

verb: a) to attract or delight greatly; b) to induce by using strong personal attractiveness'

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Etymology: from OF charme "incantation", from L carmen "song, verse, enchantment", from canere "to sing", with dissimilation of -n- to -r- before -m-

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Information on Other Languages

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meaning 1:

Finnish: viehätysvoima

Hungarian: báj

Italian: fascino

Lithuanian: žavesys

Polish: wdzięk

Slovak: pôvab

Spanish: encanto