# laud
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /lɔːd/
* (US) IPA: /lɔd/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɑd/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːd

### Noun

laud (countable and uncountable, plural lauds)
* 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,:Laud be to God
* Hymn of praise.
* (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
    Synonym: ainoi

#### Translations
### Verb

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

#### Related terms

* leed
* lied

#### See also

* besing
* canonical hours
* lauder

### Further reading

* “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.

### Anagrams

* Auld, Daul, Dula, auld, dual, udal

## Estonian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

laud (genitive laua, partitive lauda)
* board
* plank
* table

#### Derived terms

* lauamäng
* söögilaud

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin laus, laudem.

### Noun

laud m (plural lauds)
* praise, commendation

#### Related terms

* laudâ

## Ilocano
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaʔud/ [ˈlɐ.ʔud]
* Hyphenation: la‧ud

### Noun

laud
* west

#### See also

| amianan a laud | amianan | amianan a daya |
| laud | | daya |
| abagatan a laud | abagatan | abagatan a daya |

## Ludian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

laud
* board
* plank

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈla.ud]

### Verb

laud
* first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of lăuda

## Veps
### Etymology

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

### Noun

laud
* board
* plank

#### Derived terms

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

### References

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

## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [la.ˈud]

### Noun

laud (nominative plural lauds)
* lark (bird)

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Hypernyms

* böd
* nim

#### Hyponyms

* hilaud
* hilaudül
* jilaud
* jilaudül
* laudil
* laudül

#### Derived terms

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