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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bɑːm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /bɑm/, /bɔm/, /bɑlm/, /bɔlm/, (obsolete) /bæm/
• 韻: -ɑːm, -ɑːlm
• 異形同音異義語: bomb, BOM (for many speakers with the father-bother merger)

名詞

balm (countable and uncountable, plural balms)

1. Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.

   Synonyms: balsam, balm

2. An aromatic preparation for embalming the dead.
3. A plant or tree yielding such substance.

   Synonym: balsam

4. Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.

   Synonym: balsam

5. (figuratively) Something soothing.

   Synonym: balsam

   Classical music is a sweet balm for our sorrows.

   • 1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51:

     BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]

6. The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis.
7. Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horsebalm.

派生語

派生した語

• → Welsh: balm

動詞

balm (third-person singular simple present balms, present participle balming, simple past and past participle balmed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakespeare, George] [Wilkins, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act 3, scene 2, lines 63–64:

     Shrouded in cloth of state, balmed and entreasured / With full bags of spices!

2. (transitive, figurative) To soothe; to mitigate.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, scene 6, line 96:

     This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews

参考

• lotion
• ointment
• unguent

参照

アナグラム

• ALBM, BAML, BLAM, LBMA, Lamb, blam, lamb