laud

From Middle English lauden, from Old French lauder, from Latin laudō, laudāre, from laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”), from echoic Proto-Indo-European root *leh₁wdʰ- (“song, sound”). Cognate with Old English lēoþ (“song, poem”), German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɔd/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /lɑd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːd

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)

1. Glorification or praise.
   • 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “The Obedience of Subiectes vnto Kynges Princes and Rulers. The .XIIJ. Chapter of Paul Rom.”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp: Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xxxiij, verso:

     So doo vvell and thou ſhalt have laude of the ſame (that is to ſaye of the ruler) […]

   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Laud be to God

2. Hymn of praise.
3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.

   Synonym: ainoi

laud (third-person singular simple present lauds, present participle lauding, simple past and past participle lauded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke j:[64], folio lxxiij, verso:

     And hys mought was opened immediatly / and hys tonge / and he ſpake lawdynge god.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 485:

     The most recognised and lauded dictionary of Indian English today is Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms; Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, first published in 1886 and updated by William Crooke in 1903.

• leed
• lied

• besing
• canonical hours
• lauder

• “laud”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “laud”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “laud”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

From Proto-Finnic *lauta, possibly from Proto-Germanic *flauþ or *flaut. Compare Swedish flöte. Also compare Lithuanian plautas and Latvian plauts.

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)

1. board
2. plank
3. table

From Latin laus, laudem.

laud m (plural lauds)

1. praise, commendation

• laudâ

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaʔud/, [ˈlɐ.ʔud]
• Hyphenation: la‧ud

laud

1. west

From Proto-Finnic *lauta. Akin to Finnish lauta.

laud

1. board
2. plank

• IPA^(key): [ˈla.ud]

laud

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of lăuda

From Proto-Finnic *lauta. Related to Finnish lauta, Estonian laud.

laud

1. board
2. plank

• laudasine
• čukalduzlaud
• ikunlaud
• lumilaud
• möndlaud
• potklaud
• tedotuzlaud
• tölaud
• laudkund
• laudsein

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “доска”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• IPA^(key): [la.ˈud]

laud (nominative plural lauds)

1. lark (bird)

• böd
• nim

• hilaud
• hilaudül
• jilaud
• jilaudül
• laudil
• laudül

• brüyäralaud (“woodlark”), Lullula arborea
• felalaud (“skylark”), Alauda arvensis
• töpalaud (“crested lark”), Galerida cristata