See Chelm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Chelm meaning in English (3.1kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pl",
"3": "Chełm"
},
"expansion": "Polish Chełm",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "holm"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of holm",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Polish Chełm. Doublet of holm.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Chelm",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Belarusian terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Cities in Poland",
"orig": "en:Cities in Poland",
"parents": [
"Cities",
"Places",
"Polities",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Poland",
"orig": "en:Places in Poland",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Martha Blum, The Walnut Tree, Coteau, page 100",
"text": "The fool I am, the fool. A citizen of Chelm, an idiot, one of those characters my grandfather's legends are made of.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 January 27, \"nordicskiv2\" <David.L.Webb@Dartmouth.edu>, \"Re: HELMsman\", message-ID <6dd30c30-f7a7-4c45-b737-bf2cf44c9e49@l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare, Usenet http://google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/msg/929cd7405c1a35a3",
"text": "You are the quintessential Chelmsman, Art -- indeed, you are the prince of the Sages of Chelm."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A city in Poland, known for the Jewish stories about its (mythical) stupid residents."
],
"id": "en-Chelm-en-name--BtimF~m",
"links": [
[
"Poland",
"Poland#English"
],
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "Xelm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Хэлм"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "Xolm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Холм"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Chełm"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kulm"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Chelm"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Xelm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Хелм"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Xolm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Холм"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "khelem",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "כעלעם"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Chelm"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[χɛlm]",
"tags": [
"Jewish"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlm"
}
],
"word": "Chelm"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pl",
"3": "Chełm"
},
"expansion": "Polish Chełm",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "holm"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of holm",
"name": "dbt"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Polish Chełm. Doublet of holm.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Chelm",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Belarusian terms with redundant script codes",
"English doublets",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Polish",
"English terms derived from Polish",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlm",
"Rhymes:English/ɛlm/1 syllable",
"Ukrainian terms with redundant script codes",
"en:Cities in Poland",
"en:Places in Poland"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Martha Blum, The Walnut Tree, Coteau, page 100",
"text": "The fool I am, the fool. A citizen of Chelm, an idiot, one of those characters my grandfather's legends are made of.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 January 27, \"nordicskiv2\" <David.L.Webb@Dartmouth.edu>, \"Re: HELMsman\", message-ID <6dd30c30-f7a7-4c45-b737-bf2cf44c9e49@l19g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare, Usenet http://google.com/group/humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/msg/929cd7405c1a35a3",
"text": "You are the quintessential Chelmsman, Art -- indeed, you are the prince of the Sages of Chelm."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A city in Poland, known for the Jewish stories about its (mythical) stupid residents."
],
"links": [
[
"Poland",
"Poland#English"
],
[
"stupid",
"stupid"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Chelm"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[χɛlm]",
"tags": [
"Jewish"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlm"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "Xelm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Хэлм"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "Xolm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Холм"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Chełm"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kulm"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Chelm"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "Xelm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Хелм"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "Xolm",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "Холм"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "khelem",
"sense": "city in Poland",
"word": "כעלעם"
}
],
"word": "Chelm"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.