balsam

See also: Balsam, bàlsam, and balšám

English

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Balsam (disambiguation)

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Alternative forms

• balsem, balsum, balsome

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew בושם (“spice, perfume”)); compare Old English balsam, balsamum (“balsam, balm”), Doublet of balm and desman. Not related to balsa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: bôlʹsəm, IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːl.səm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔl.səm/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑl.səm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːlsəm

Noun

balsam (countable and uncountable, plural balsams)

1. (chiefly UK) A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants.
2. (chiefly UK) A plant or tree yielding such substance.
3. (chiefly UK) A soothing ointment.
4. (chiefly UK, figuratively) Something soothing.

   Classical music is a sweet balsam for our sorrows

5. A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens.
6. The balsam family of flowering plants (Balsaminaceae), which includes Impatiens and Hydrocera.
7. A balsam fir Abies balsamea.
8. Canada balsam, a turpentine obtained from the resin of balsam fir.

Synonyms

• (sweet-smelling oil): balm
• (plant or tree): balm
• (soothing ointment): balm
• (something soothing): balm
• (flowering plant of the genus Impatiens): jewelweed, impatiens, touch-me-not

Derived terms

• Abraham's balsam
• balsamaceous
• balsam apple
• balsamarium
• balsam Canada
• balsamed
• balsam fir
• balsamic
• balsamical
• balsamiferous
• Balsamina
• balsamint, balsam-mint
• Balsam Lake
• balsam of Acouchi
• balsam of aniseed
• balsam of Copaiba
• balsam of fir
• balsam of Gilead
• balsam of Mecca
• balsam of Peru
• balsam of saturn
• balsam of steel
• balsam of sulfur, balsam of sulphur
• balsam of Tolu
• balsam oil
• balsam pear
• balsam poplar
• balsamroot
• balsam spurge
• balsam-tansy
• balsam tree
• balsamweed
• balsam willow
• balsamy
• Canada balsam
• friar's balsam
• garden balsam
• Himalayan balsam
• imbalsamation
• Mecca balsam
• Peruvian balsam
• Tolu balsam
• true balsam
• Turlington's balsam
• Umiri balsam
• Wade's balsam
• wild balsam apple
• yellow balsam

Related terms

• balm
• balsamate
• balsamation
• Balsaminaceae
• balsamine
• balsamise, balsamize
• balsamitic
• balsamo
• balsamous
• balsamum
• opobalsam, opobalsamum
• xylobalsamum

Translations

sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants

Czech: balzám m Dutch: balsem (nl) Esperanto: balzamo Finnish: palsami (fi) French: pommade (fr) f Galician: bálsamo (gl) m German: Heilsalbe f, Trost (de) m Greek: βάλσαμο (el) n (válsamo) Ancient: βάλσαμον n (bálsamon) Ido: balzamo (io) Irish: balsam m Italian: balsamo (it) m Maori: pama, pāma, pōtama Middle English: bawme Persian: بلسان (fa) (balsān) Polish: balsam (pl) m Portuguese: bálsamo (pt) m Romanian: balsam (ro) n Spanish: bálsamo (es) m Swedish: balsam (sv)

plant or tree yielding such substance

Dutch: balsemboom (nl) Esperanto: balzamino Finnish: palsamipuu Greek: βαλσαμόδεντρο n (valsamódentro) (tree), σπαθόχορτο (el) n (spathóchorto) (plant) Ancient: βάλσαμον n (bálsamon) Ido: balzamo (io) Irish: balsam m, balsaimín m Middle English: bawme

soothing ointment

Albanian: balsam (sq) m Arabic: بَلْسَم m (balsam), مَرْهَم m (marham) Armenian: բալասան (hy) (balasan) Azerbaijani: balzam Belarusian: бальза́м m (balʹzám) Bulgarian: балса́м (bg) m (balsám), мехле́м (bg) m (mehlém) Burmese: ဘမ်းပရုတ်ဆီ (my) (bham:pa.ruthci) Catalan: bàlsam (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 香脂 (zh) (xiāngzhī), 香膏 (zh) (xiānggāo), 香油 (zh) (xiāngyóu) Czech: balzám m Danish: balsam (da) c Dutch: balsem (nl) m Esperanto: balzamo Estonian: palsam (et) Finnish: palsami (fi) French: baume (fr) m Galician: bálsamo (gl) m, ungüento (gl) m, pomada (gl) f Georgian: ბალზამი (balzami) German: Balsam (de) m, Trost (de) m (metaphorical) Greek: βάλσαμο (el) n (válsamo) Hebrew: צֳרִי (he) f (tsori) Hindi: मरहम (hi) m (marham), मलहम (hi) m (malham), बाम (hi) m (bām), लेप (hi) m (lep), औषधि f (auṣdhi) Hungarian: balzsam (hu) Ido: balzamo (io) Indonesian: balsem (id) Irish: balsam m Italian: balsamo (it) m, unguento (it) m, pomata (it) f Japanese: バルサム (barusamu), 香油 (ja) (こうゆ, kōyu), (healing) 傷薬 (きずぐすり, kizugusuri) Kazakh: бальзам (balzam) Korean: 향유(香油) (ko) (hyang'yu), 발삼 (balsam) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: belsem Kyrgyz: бальзам (balzam) Latvian: balzams m Lithuanian: balzamas m Macedonian: балсам m (balsam) Malay: balasan (ms), balsam Maori: (hinu) panikiri Middle English: bawme Mongolian: Cyrillic: бальзам (mn) (balʹzam) Norwegian: Bokmål: balsam (no) m Pashto: مرهم m (marham) Persian: مرهم (fa) (marham), بلسان (fa) (balasân) Polish: balsam (pl) m Portuguese: bálsamo (pt) m Romanian: balsam (ro) n Russian: бальза́м (ru) m (balʹzám) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ба̀лзам m Roman: bàlzam (sh) m Slovak: balzam m Slovene: balzam (sl) m Spanish: bálsamo (es) m Sundanese: duyungson Swedish: balsam (sv) n Tajik: марҳам (marham), баласон (balason) Tatar: бәлзәм (tt) (bälzäm) Thai: ยาหม่อง (yaa-mɔ̀ng), หม่อง (th) (mɔ̀ng) Turkish: balsam (tr) Turkmen: balzam (tk) Ukrainian: бальза́м (uk) m (balʹzám) Urdu: مَرْہَم m (marham) Uyghur: مەلھەم (melhem) Uzbek: balzam (uz) Vietnamese: nhựa thơm Walloon: ôlmint (wa) m

figurative: something soothing

Czech: balzám m Dutch: balsem (nl) Finnish: palsami (fi) German: Balsam (de) m Greek: βάλσαμο (el) n (válsamo) Ido: balzamo (io) Italian: balsamo (it) m Middle English: bawme Polish: balsam (pl) m Tagalog: pampalubag-loob

flowering plant of the genus Impatiens

Chinese: Hokkien: 鳳仙花 / 凤仙花 (chńg-kah-hoe), 掌甲花 (chńg-kah-hoe), 指甲花 (zh-min-nan) (chńg-kah-hoe) Mandarin: 鳳仙花 / 凤仙花 (zh) (fèngxiānhuā) Danish: balsamin Dutch: balsemien (nl) m, springzaad (nl) n Esperanto: balzamino Finnish: palsami (fi), palsamikukka French: balsamine (fr) f German: Springkraut n Greek: βάλσαμο (el) n (válsamo) Hunsrik: Balsemin f Ido: balzamo (io) Japanese: 鳳仙花 (ja) (hōsenka), ホウセンカ (ja) (hōsenka) Khiamniungan Naga: tǖnyítshōukhó tāupūo Korean: 봉선화(鳳仙花) (ko) (bongseonhwa), 봉숭아 (ko) (bongsung'a) Norman: belsaminne f Polish: niecierpek (pl) m Portuguese: balsamina f Spanish: balsamina f Welsh: ffromlys m

balsam fir — see balsam fir

turpentine from the resin of balsam fir — see Canada balsam

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Translations to be checked

Old Norse: (please verify) balsamr m

See also

• Impatiens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

balsam (third-person singular simple present balsams, present participle balsaming, simple past and past participle balsamed)

1. (transitive) To treat or anoint with balsam.

Anagrams

• lambas, sambal

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

balsam

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Malay balsam, from English balsam, from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew בושם (“spice, perfume”)).

• The word displaced balsêm, the loanword-cognate from Dutch balsem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalsam]
• Hyphenation: bal‧sam

Noun

balsam (plural balsam-balsam)

1. balsam: a sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants

Alternative forms

• balsêm (superseded spelling)

Derived terms

• membalsam
• pembalsaman

• balsam kanada
• balsam kopaiba
• balsam mekah
• balsam oregon
• balsam peru
• balsam tolu

Further reading

• “balsam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish balsam(m), balsaim(e), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon).

Noun

balsam m (genitive singular balsaim)

1. (medicine) balsam, balm
2. balsam (plant)

Declension

Declension of balsam (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative balsam balsaim vocative a bhalsaim a bhalsama genitive balsaim balsam dative balsam balsaim forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an balsam na balsaim genitive an bhalsaim na mbalsam dative leis an mbalsam don bhalsam leis na balsaim

Derived terms

• balsam buí m (“yellow balsam”)
• balsam gairdín m (“garden balsam”)
• balsam na manach m (“friar's balsam”)
• balsamach (“balmy”, adjective)
• balsamaigh (“embalm”, verb)
• balsamóir m (“embalmer”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of balsam

radical	lenition	eclipsis
balsam	bhalsam	mbalsam

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “balsam”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “balsam(m), balsaim(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language