"speak in tongues" meaning in English

See speak in tongues in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: speaks in tongues [present, singular, third-person], speaking in tongues [participle, present], spoke in tongues [past], spoken in tongues [participle, past]
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις (eláloun te glṓssais) Etymology templates: {{calque|en|grc|ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις}} Calque of Ancient Greek ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις (eláloun te glṓssais) Head templates: {{en-verb|speak<,,spoke,spoken> in tongues}} speak in tongues (third-person singular simple present speaks in tongues, present participle speaking in tongues, simple past spoke in tongues, past participle spoken in tongues)
  1. To speak in a language unknown to the speaker, especially when in a state of religious ecstasy; glossolalia. Related terms: speaking in tongues, tongues-speaker, tongue speaker, tongues-speaking Translations (speak in a language unknown to the speaker): 說方言 (Chinese Mandarin), 说方言 (shuō fāngyán) (Chinese Mandarin), tale i tunger (Danish), puhua kielillä (Finnish), parler en langues (French), in fremden Zungen sprechen (German), in Sprachen reden (German), in fremden Sprachen reden (German), Sprachenrede praktizieren (German), Zungenrede praktizieren (German), Zungenreden praktizieren (German), glossolalieren (German), parlare in lingue (Italian), 異言を語る (igen o kataru) (alt: いげんをかたる) (Japanese), tale i tunger (Norwegian Bokmål), glossolalere (Norwegian Bokmål), tale i tunger (Norwegian Nynorsk), glossolalere (Norwegian Nynorsk), falar em línguas (Portuguese), hablar en lenguas (Spanish), tala i tungor (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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