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Chelm
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chelm Chełm
English
Etymology
Borrowed from en pl Chełm. en holm.
Pronunciation
en /xɛlm/ Jewish
en ɛlm 1
Proper noun
en city c/Poland, known for the Jewish stories about its (mythical) stupid residents.
en 1999 Martha Blum The Walnut Tree http://google.com/books?id=XuY1zPrgFhkC&pg=PA100&dq=chelm 100 Coteau 1550501542 The fool I am, the fool. A citizen of Chelm, an idiot, one of those characters my grandfather's legends are made of.
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 :
You are the quintessential Chelmsman, Art -- indeed, you are the prince of the Sages of Chelm.
Translations
city in Poland
Belarusian: be Хэлм, be Холм
Polish: pl Chełm
Portuguese: pt Kulm f, pt Chelm f
Russian: ru Хелм
Ukrainian: uk Холм
Yiddish: yi כעלעם
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :bor pl:Chełm + 1
Proper noun
f
pt city c/Poland Chelm
pt Kulm