balsam

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• UK: bôlʹsəm
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• UK: /ˈbɔːl.səm/
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• General-American: /ˈbɔl.səm/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈbɑl.səm/
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Borrowed from German Balsam, an occupational surname for a seller of perfumes. It could also be an English habitational surname, from Balsham, in Cambridgeshire.

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.

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: balzám — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Dutch: balsem — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Esperanto: balzamo — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Finnish: palsami — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• French: pommade — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Galician: bálsamo — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• German: Heilsalbe — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• German: Trost — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Greek: βάλσαμο (válsamo) — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Ancient Greek: βάλσαμον (bálsamon) — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Ido: balzamo — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Irish: balsam — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Italian: balsamo — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Māori: pama — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Māori: pāma — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Māori: pōtama — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Middle English: bawme — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Iranian Persian: بَلَسان (balasân) — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Iranian Persian: بَلْسان (balsân) — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Polish: balsam — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Portuguese: bálsamo — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Romanian: balsam — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Spanish: bálsamo — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Swedish: balsam — sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants
• Dutch: balsemboom — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Esperanto: balzamino — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Finnish: palsamipuu — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Greek: βαλσαμόδεντρο (valsamódentro) — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Greek: σπαθόχορτο (spathóchorto) — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Ancient Greek: βάλσαμον (bálsamon) — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Ido: balzamo — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Irish: balsam — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Irish: balsaimín — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Middle English: bawme — plant or tree yielding such substance
• Albanian: balsam — soothing ointment
• Arabic: بَلْسَم (balsam) — soothing ointment
• Arabic: مَرْهَم (marham) — soothing ointment
• Armenian: բալասան (balasan) — soothing ointment
• Azerbaijani: balzam — soothing ointment
• Belarusian: бальза́м (balʹzám) — soothing ointment
• Bulgarian: балса́м (balsám) — soothing ointment
• Bulgarian: мехле́м (mehlém) — soothing ointment
• Burmese: ဘမ်းပရုတ်ဆီ (bham:pa.ruthci) — soothing ointment
• Catalan: bàlsam — soothing ointment
• Chinese Mandarin: 香脂 (xiāngzhī) — soothing ointment
• Chinese Mandarin: 香膏 (xiānggāo) — soothing ointment
• Chinese Mandarin: 香油 (xiāngyóu) — soothing ointment
• Czech: balzám — soothing ointment
• Danish: balsam — soothing ointment
• Dutch: balsem — soothing ointment
• Esperanto: balzamo — soothing ointment
• Estonian: palsam — soothing ointment
• Finnish: palsami — soothing ointment
• French: baume — soothing ointment
• Galician: bálsamo — soothing ointment
• Galician: ungüento — soothing ointment
• Galician: pomada — soothing ointment
• Georgian: ბალზამი (balzami) — soothing ointment
• German: Balsam — soothing ointment
• German: Trost — soothing ointment
• Greek: βάλσαμο (válsamo) — soothing ointment
• Hebrew: צֳרִי (tsorí) — soothing ointment
• Hindi: मरहम (marham) — soothing ointment
• Hindi: मलहम (malham) — soothing ointment
• Hindi: बाम (bām) — soothing ointment
• Hindi: लेप (lep) — soothing ointment
• Hindi: औषधि (auṣdhi) — soothing ointment
• Hungarian: balzsam — soothing ointment
• Ido: balzamo — soothing ointment
• Indonesian: balsem — soothing ointment
• Irish: balsam — soothing ointment
• Irish: íocshláinte — soothing ointment
• Italian: balsamo — soothing ointment
• Italian: unguento — soothing ointment
• Italian: pomata — soothing ointment
• Japanese: バルサム (barusamu) — soothing ointment
• Japanese: 香油 (kōyu) — soothing ointment
• Japanese: 傷薬 (kizugusuri) — soothing ointment
• Kazakh: бальзам (balzam) — soothing ointment
• Korean: 향유 (hyang'yu) — soothing ointment
• Korean: 발삼 (balsam) — soothing ointment
• Northern Kurdish: belsem — soothing ointment
• Kyrgyz: бальзам (balzam) — soothing ointment
• Latvian: balzams — soothing ointment
• Lithuanian: balzamas — soothing ointment
• Macedonian: балсам (balsam) — soothing ointment
• Malay: balasan — soothing ointment
• Malay: balsam — soothing ointment
• Māori: (hinu) panikiri — soothing ointment
• Middle English: bawme — soothing ointment
• Mongolian: бальзам (balʹzam) — soothing ointment
• Norwegian Bokmål: balsam — soothing ointment
• Pashto: مرهم (marham) — soothing ointment
• Iranian Persian: مَرْهَم (marham) — soothing ointment
• Iranian Persian: بَلَسان (balasân) — soothing ointment
• Iranian Persian: بَلْسان (balsân) — soothing ointment
• Polish: balsam — soothing ointment
• Portuguese: bálsamo — soothing ointment
• Romanian: balsam — soothing ointment
• Russian: бальза́м (balʹzám) — soothing ointment
• Serbo-Croatian: ба̀лзам — soothing ointment
• Serbo-Croatian: bàlzam — soothing ointment
• Slovak: balzam — soothing ointment
• Slovene: balzam — soothing ointment
• Spanish: bálsamo — soothing ointment
• Sundanese: duyungson — soothing ointment
• Swedish: balsam — soothing ointment
• Tajik: марҳам (marham) — soothing ointment
• Tajik: баласон (balason) — soothing ointment
• Tatar: бәлзәм (bälzäm) — soothing ointment
• Thai: ยาหม่อง (yaa-mɔ̀ng) — soothing ointment
• Thai: หม่อง (mɔ̀ng) — soothing ointment
• Turkish: balsam — soothing ointment
• Turkmen: balzam — soothing ointment
• Ukrainian: бальза́м (balʹzám) — soothing ointment
• Urdu: مَرْہَم (marham) — soothing ointment
• Uyghur: مەلھەم (melhem) — soothing ointment
• Uzbek: balzam — soothing ointment
• Vietnamese: nhựa thơm — soothing ointment
• Walloon: ôlmint — soothing ointment
• Czech: balzám — figurative: something soothing
• Dutch: balsem — figurative: something soothing
• Finnish: palsami — figurative: something soothing
• German: Balsam — figurative: something soothing
• Greek: βάλσαμο (válsamo) — figurative: something soothing
• Ido: balzamo — figurative: something soothing
• Italian: balsamo — figurative: something soothing
• Middle English: bawme — figurative: something soothing
• Polish: balsam — figurative: something soothing
• Tagalog: pampalubag-loob — figurative: something soothing
• Chinese: 鳳仙花 /凤仙花 (chńg-kah-hoe) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Chinese: 掌甲花 (chńg-kah-hoe) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Chinese: 指甲花 (zh-min-nan) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Chinese Mandarin: 鳳仙花 /凤仙花 (fèngxiānhuā) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Danish: balsamin — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Dutch: balsemien — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Dutch: springzaad — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Esperanto: balzamino — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Finnish: palsami — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Finnish: palsamikukka — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• French: balsamine — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• German: Springkraut — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Greek: βάλσαμο (válsamo) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Hunsrik: Balsemin — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Ido: balzamo — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Japanese: 鳳仙花 (hōsenka) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Japanese: ホウセンカ (hōsenka) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Korean: 봉선화 (bongseonhwa) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Korean: 봉숭아 (bongsung'a) — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Khiamniungan Naga: tǖnyítshōukhó tāupūo — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Norman: belsaminne — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Polish: niecierpek — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Portuguese: balsamina — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Spanish: balsamina — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens
• Welsh: ffromlys — flowering plant of the genus Impatiens