sermon

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• UK: /ˈsɜː.mən/
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• US: /ˈsɝ.mən/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)mən
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• CMU ARPABET: S ER1 M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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. Displaced native Old English wordpredicung, literally word + preaching.

From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

161 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: а́бжьагажәа (ábžagaẑwa) — religious discourse
• Albanian: predikim — religious discourse
• Arabic: مَوْعِظَة (mawʕiẓa) — religious discourse
• Arabic: خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba) — religious discourse
• Arabic: وَعْظ (waʕẓ) — religious discourse
• Armenian: քարոզ (kʻaroz) — religious discourse
• Azerbaijani: vəz — religious discourse
• Azerbaijani: xütbə — religious discourse
• Bashkir: хөтбә (xötbə) — religious discourse
• Belarusian: каза́нне (kazánnje) — religious discourse
• Belarusian: ка́зань (kázanʹ) — religious discourse
• Belarusian: про́паведзь (própavjedzʹ) — religious discourse
• Bengali: খুতবা (khutoba) — religious discourse
• Bengali: ওয়াজ (ōẇaj) — religious discourse
• Bulgarian: про́повед (própoved) — religious discourse
• Catalan: sermó — religious discourse
• Chinese Mandarin: 講道 /讲道 (jiǎngdào) — religious discourse
• Chinese Mandarin: 布道 (bùdào) — religious discourse
• Chinese Mandarin: 說教 /说教 (shuōjiào) — religious discourse
• Cornish: pregoth — religious discourse
• Czech: kázání — religious discourse
• Danish: prædiken — religious discourse
• Dutch: preek — religious discourse
• Esperanto: prediko — religious discourse
• Estonian: jutlus — religious discourse
• Finnish: saarna — religious discourse
• French: sermon — religious discourse
• French: prêche — religious discourse
• Galician: sermón — religious discourse
• Georgian: ქადაგება (kadageba) — religious discourse
• German: Predigt — religious discourse
• Greek: κήρυγμα (kírygma) — religious discourse
• Ancient Greek: κήρυγμα (kḗrugma) — religious discourse
• Gujarati: ભાષણ (bhāṣaṇ) — religious discourse
• Gujarati: પ્રવચન (pravcan) — religious discourse
• Gujarati: ખુતબો (khutbo) — religious discourse
• Hausa: huɗuba — religious discourse
• Hebrew: דְּרָשָׁה — religious discourse
• Hebrew: הַטָּפָה — religious discourse
• Hindi: उपदेश (updeś) — religious discourse
• Hindi: प्रवचन (pravcan) — religious discourse
• Hungarian: prédikáció — religious discourse
• Hungarian: szentbeszéd — religious discourse
• Icelandic: predikun — religious discourse
• Ido: prediko — religious discourse
• Indonesian: khotbah — religious discourse
• Indonesian: sermon — religious discourse
• Irish: seanmóir — religious discourse
• Old Irish: precept — religious discourse
• Italian: sermone — religious discourse
• Italian: predica — religious discourse
• Japanese: 説教 (sekkyō) — religious discourse
• Kazakh: уағыз (uağyz) — religious discourse
• Khmer: ទេសនា (teisaʼnaa) — religious discourse
• Korean: 설교 (seolgyo) — religious discourse
• Northern Kurdish: weiz — religious discourse
• Northern Kurdish: xutbe — religious discourse
• Kyrgyz: үгүт (ügüt) — religious discourse
• Kyrgyz: кутпа (kutpa) — religious discourse
• Lao: ເທດ (thēt) — religious discourse
• Lao: ເທສະນາ (thē sa nā) — religious discourse
• Latvian: sprediķis — religious discourse
• Lithuanian: pamokslas — religious discourse
• Macedonian: про́повед (própoved) — religious discourse
• Macedonian: сло́во (slóvo) — religious discourse
• Macedonian: беседа (beseda) — religious discourse
• Malay: khutbah — religious discourse
• Malay: khotbah — religious discourse
• Manx: sharmane — religious discourse
• Māori: kauwhau — religious discourse
• Marathi: प्रवचन (pravcan) — religious discourse
• Khiamniungan Naga: āchìm — religious discourse
• Norwegian Bokmål: preken — religious discourse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: preike — religious discourse
• Church Slavic: проповѣдь (propovědĭ) — religious discourse
• Pannonian Rusyn: казань (kazanʹ) — religious discourse
• Pashto: موعظه (mo'eza) — religious discourse
• Pashto: وعظ (wa'z) — religious discourse
• Pashto: خطبه (xotba) — religious discourse
• Persian: موعظه (mow'eze) — religious discourse
• Persian: خطابه (xetâbe) — religious discourse
• Persian: وعظ (va'z) — religious discourse
• Persian: خطبه (xotbe) — religious discourse
• Plautdietsch: Prädicht — religious discourse
• Polish: kazanie — religious discourse
• Portuguese: sermão — religious discourse
• Romanian: predică — religious discourse
• Romanian: propovedanie — religious discourse
• Romanian: cazanie — religious discourse
• Russian: про́поведь (própovedʹ) — religious discourse
• Scottish Gaelic: searmon — religious discourse
• Serbo-Croatian: про̏пове̄д — religious discourse
• Serbo-Croatian: про̏повије̄д — religious discourse
• Serbo-Croatian: prȍpovēd — religious discourse
• Serbo-Croatian: prȍpovijēd — religious discourse
• Slovak: kázanie — religious discourse
• Slovak: kázeň — religious discourse
• Slovene: pridiga — religious discourse
• Spanish: sermón — religious discourse
• Spanish: plática — religious discourse
• Spanish: prédica — religious discourse
• Swahili: hotuba — religious discourse
• Swahili: mahubiri — religious discourse
• Swedish: predikan — religious discourse
• Swedish: betraktelse — religious discourse
• Tajik: мавъиза (mav'iza) — religious discourse
• Tajik: ваъз (va'z) — religious discourse
• Tajik: хутба (xutba) — religious discourse
• Tatar: хөтбә (xötbä) — religious discourse
• Thai: เทศน์ (têet) — religious discourse
• Thai: เทศนา (têet-sà-nǎa) — religious discourse
• Turkish: vaaz — religious discourse
• Turkish: hutbe — religious discourse
• Ottoman Turkish: وعظ (vaʼz) — religious discourse
• Turkmen: wagyz — religious discourse
• Ukrainian: про́повідь (própovidʹ) — religious discourse
• Ukrainian: каза́ння (kazánnja) — religious discourse
• Urdu: وعظ (va'z) — religious discourse
• Urdu: خطبہ (xutba) — religious discourse
• Uyghur: نەسىھەت (nesihet) — religious discourse
• Uyghur: خۇتبە (xutbe) — religious discourse
• Uzbek: vaʼz — religious discourse
• Uzbek: xutba — religious discourse
• Vietnamese: thuyết giáo — religious discourse
• Walloon: siermon — religious discourse
• Walloon: pretchmint — religious discourse
• Walloon: pretchaedje — religious discourse
• Welsh: pregeth — religious discourse
• Abkhaz: а́ларҵәара (álarcwʼara) — speech of reproval
• Armenian: քարոզ (kʻaroz) — speech of reproval
• Catalan: sermó — speech of reproval
• Chinese Mandarin: 說教 /说教 (shuōjiào) — speech of reproval
• Dutch: preek — speech of reproval
• Dutch: donderpreek — speech of reproval
• Esperanto: admono — speech of reproval
• Finnish: saarna — speech of reproval
• French: sermon — speech of reproval
• French: prêche — speech of reproval
• Galician: sermón — speech of reproval
• German: Predigt — speech of reproval
• German: Moralpredigt — speech of reproval
• German: Strafpredigt — speech of reproval
• Greek: επίπληξη (epíplixi) — speech of reproval
• Ancient Greek: ἐπίπληξις (epíplēxis) — speech of reproval
• Italian: sermone — speech of reproval
• Italian: predica — speech of reproval
• Italian: arringa — speech of reproval
• Polish: kazanie — speech of reproval
• Portuguese: sermão — speech of reproval
• Romanian: predică — speech of reproval
• Russian: поуче́ние (poučénije) — speech of reproval
• Russian: нота́ция (notácija) — speech of reproval
• Russian: про́поведь (própovedʹ) — speech of reproval
• Russian: нравоуче́ние (nravoučénije) — speech of reproval
• Spanish: sermón — speech of reproval
• Swedish: förmaning — speech of reproval
• Swedish: straffpredikan — speech of reproval
• Swedish: moralpredikan — speech of reproval
• Turkish: vaaz — speech of reproval
• Turkish: nutuk — speech of reproval
• Walloon: siermon — speech of reproval