balalaika

en-noun

balalaika (plural balalaikas or balalaiki)

balalaikas (plural)
balalaiki (plural)
balalajka (alternative)
balalayka (alternative)

A plucked stringed instrument with a triangular body, short neck and three strings, of Russian origin.


balalaika

balalaika m (definite singular balalaikaen, indefinite plural balalaikaer, definite plural balalaikaene)

balalaikaen (definite singular)
balalaikaer (indefinite plural)
balalaikaene (definite plural)


balalaika

head

balalaika m (definite singular balalaikaen, indefinite plural balalaikaar or balalaikaer, definite plural balalaikaane or balalaikaene)

balalaikaen (definite singular)
balalaikaar (indefinite plural)
balalaikaer (indefinite plural)
balalaikaane (definite plural)
balalaikaene (definite plural)


violin

→ Japanese: バイオリン (baiorin)

→ Korean: 바이올린 (baiollin)

From Italian violino (“little viola”), from viola + -ino (forming diminutives).

When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.

She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

(music) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.


guitar

guitars (plural)
guittar (alternative obsolete)
gittar (alternative pronunciation-spelling)

→ Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)

→ Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)

→ Cantonese: 結他 /结他 (git3 taa1)

→ Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)

→ Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)

→ Irish: giotár

→ Japanese: ギター (gitā)

→ Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)

→ Hokkien: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)

→ Korean: 기타 (gita)

→ Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)

→ Scottish Gaelic: giotàr

→ Sidamo: giitare

→ Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.
Aramaic קיתראbor.
Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.
Old Spanish guitarra
Spanish guitarrabor.
English guitar
From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

der

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)

Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.

She was carrying her guitar in a fancily-decorated case.

The band is looking for a new guitar player.

(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

(music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.


piano

piano (indefinite nominative singular)
pianos (genitive indefinite singular)
pianot (definite nominative singular)
pianots (definite genitive singular)
pianon (indefinite nominative plural)
pianons (genitive indefinite plural)
pianona (definite nominative plural)
pianonas (definite genitive plural)


品

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (品):
* → Japanese: 品(ひん) (hin); 品(ほん) (hon)
* → Korean: 품(品) (pum)
* → Vietnamese: phẩm (品)

→ Vietnamese: phím (“fret; key”)

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): Triplication of 口, representing various objects. Also occurs in 區.


弓

Bow (music)
Bow and arrow
Man'yōshū
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Yumi
ja:弓 (楽器)
ja:弓 (武器)

From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *yumi. Appears in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE), with a phonetic spelling of 由美 ⟨yumi₁⟩, */yumʲi/.

梓弓

a bow made from the wood of the Japanese cherry birch (Betula grossa

破魔弓

a traditional Shintō ceremonial bow for dispel evil

鏃 (yajiri): arrowhead; 簳 (yagara): arrow-shaft; 羽 (hane): arrow-fletching

仗, 杖: yumi stave; 弦: yumi bowstring; 矢: an arrow; 靫): a quiver; 胸当て: kyudo plastron/chestguard; 弽: kyudo glove; 弩

(music) a bow for playing a stringed instrument such as a violin or cello


桐

桐 (canonical)
桐 (canonical)
kiri (romanization)

From Old Japanese. The tree may have been imported from China prior to the Nara period.
The term might be from 切り (kiri, “cutting”), from the way that the tree is quick to send out shoots after being cut.
Some sources also speculate that this might be from some term 木理 (*kiri, “wood grain”) in reference to the desirable grain of this wood. However, 木理 is only attested with the reading mokuri, not kiri; also, the term is not attested until the 1830s, before which the Japanese terms for wood grain were 木目 (mokume, from the mid-1500s) or 木目 (kime, from the 1200s).

(card games) the paulownia suit in a hanafuda deck, representing the month of December

from the wood of the paulownia used as the soundboard

from the markings of paulownia crests on the coins

(colloquial) money, especially gold coins such as the 大判 (ōban) and the 小判 (koban)


琴

/kimʉ/ → /kiɴ/
From Middle Chinese 琴 (MC gim). The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

琴瑟

qin and se →; kinshitsu, marital harmony"”

guqin (ancient Chinese seven-stringed zither) or other related instruments


瑟

(music) a zither with movable bridges and around 25 strings


箏

Sino-Xenic (箏):
* → Japanese: 箏(そう) (sō)
* → Korean: 쟁(箏) (jaeng)
* → Vietnamese: tranh (箏)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsreːŋ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

Han compound

古箏

古筝


箏

→ Dutch: koto

→ English: koto

→ Finnish: koto

→ French: koto

⟨ko₂to₂⟩ → */kətə/ → /koto/
From Old Japanese.
Possibly derived from a compound of elements 木 (ko, “tree, wood”, combining form) + 音 (oto, “sound”), with the additional medial o dropped by haplology. Compare the development of 這(は)い入(い)る (haiiru) to 入(はい)る (hairu), or 参(まい)入(い)る (maiiru) to 参(まい)る (mairu).

com

koto: a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng

(colloquial) guzheng: a Chinese zither where the koto was based on


箏

箏 (canonical)
sō (romanization)
sau (romanization)
さう (hiragana historical)

/sau/ → /sɔː/ → /soː/
From Middle Chinese 箏 (MC tsreang).
The kan'on reading, so likely the initial borrowing.


箏

箏 (canonical)
shō (romanization)
syau (romanization)
しやう (hiragana historical)

/ɕau/ → /ɕɔː/ → /ɕoː/
Appears in the Iroha Jiruishō (c. mid-late 12th century).
From Middle Chinese 箏 (MC tsreang). The goon reading, so likely a later borrowing.

(possibly obsolete) a guzheng, zheng (Chinese zither), where the koto was based on


胡

→ English: Hu, Hoo, Wu, Woo, Oh

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡaː): phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ) + semantic ⺼.
; "dewlap"
; "steppe nomads"
; interrogative word ("what; why; how")

阿胡拉·馬茲達

Āhúlā Mǎzīdá

阿胡拉·马兹达

Āhúlā Mǎzīdá

Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China

Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong

(historical) countries and peoples in the Western Regions, including Persia, Daqin, and in Pre-Tang texts, India


tres

Borrowed from Spanish tres (“three”). Doublet of three and trey.

(music) A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.


阮

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (阮):
* → Vietnamese: Nguyễn (阮)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋon, *ŋonʔ): semantic 阝 + phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon).
; “ruan (musical instrument)”

Han compound

(historical) state of Ruan (a small state during the Shang Dynasty)


harp

From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).

The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:

(music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body

Any instrument of the same musicological type.


violon

→ English: violon

→ Persian: ویولن (viyolon)

desc

→ Lao: ວີໂອລົງ (wī ʼō long)

→ Lao: ວີໂອລົງ (wī ʼō long)

From viole + -on (diminutive suffix). Compare Italian violino.

Sur le toit de la maison, nous jouons du violon.
Sur le toit de la maison, nous jouons du violon.
Son violon fait zig zig.
Ton violon fait zig zig.
Mon violon, mon violon, mon violon fait zig zig zig.
Son violon fait zig zig.
Ton violon fait zig zig.
Mon violon, mon violon, mon violon fait zig zig zig zig zig.

1986, “Il était une fois … une maison des musiciens [There Once Was… a House of Musicians]”, in Il était une fois … une petite grenouille [There Once Was… a Little Frog] (fiction), Paris: CLE International:

On the roof of this house, we play the violin.
On the roof of this house, we play the violin.
Their violin goes zig zig.
Your violin goes zig zig.
My violin, my violin, my violin goes zig zig zig.
Their violin goes zig zig.
Your violin goes zig zig.
My violin, my violin, my violin goes zig zig zig zig zig.

Je suis seul, je suis triste.
Tout est noir.
Ici, je n’ai pas d’amis.
Je n’ai pas de musique.
Je n’ai pas de chanson.
Il n’y a pas de violon.
Pas de tambour, pas d’accordéon.
Il n’y a pas de violon.
Pas de tambour, pas d'accordéon.

I am alone, I am sad.
Everything is black.
Here, I have no friends.
I have no music.
I have no songs.
There are no violins.
No drums, no accordions.
There are no violins.
No drums, no accordions.


banjo

English: benjo

→ Esperanto: banĝo

→ Irish: bainseo

→ Japanese: バンジョー

→ Macedonian: бенџо (bendžo)

→ Mongolian: банжо (banžo)

→ Russian: банджо (bandžo)

→ Thai: แบนโจ (bɛɛn-joo)

→ Welsh: banjô

→ Yiddish: באַנדזשאָ (bandzho)

From the pronunciation of African slaves, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly a corruption of bandore (from Spanish bandurria), alternatively from a West African language such as Mandinka banjul, or Kimbundu mbanza.

Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.


lyre

From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira, Lyra, and lyra.

der

(music) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.


lyre

→ Romanian: liră

→ Turkish: lir


lyra

lyra (indefinite nominative singular)
lyras (genitive indefinite singular)
lyran (definite nominative singular)
lyrans (definite genitive singular)
lyror (indefinite nominative plural)
lyrors (genitive indefinite plural)
lyrorna (definite nominative plural)
lyrornas (definite genitive plural)

Pollachius pollachius
Pollachius pollachius#Translingual

a European pollock (Pollachius pollachius)


harpe

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.


lira

Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra). First attested in the 15th century.

lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)


dulcimer

From Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).

A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.

1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Courier Dover Publications, published 1992, →ISBN, page 59:

Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old.

1947 January 25, “Album Reviews: The Seven Joys of Mary—John: Jacob Niles (Disc 732)”, in The Billboard, volume 59, number 4, Nielsen Business Media, →ISSN, page 32:

Played traditionally, the dulcimer sounds delightful with drones acenting the melody you are playing.

2004, Madeline MacNeil, You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, Introduction, page 4:

A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).

Appalachian dulcimer

fretted dulcimer, lap dulcimer, dulcimore, mountain dulcimer


zither

Borrowed from German Zither, from Old High German zithara, from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára, “a kind of harp”). Doublet of cithara, cither, and guitar.

(music) A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.


cuatro

From Spanish cuatro. Doublet of four and quatre.

Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).


contrabass

From Italian contrabbasso, from contra (“against”) + basso (“low”).


kitara

kitara (nominative singular)
kitary (nominative plural)
kitary (genitive singular)
kitar (genitive plural)
kitarze (dative singular)
kitarom (dative plural)
kitarę (accusative singular)
kitary (accusative plural)
kitarą (instrumental singular)
kitarami (instrumental plural)
kitarze (locative singular)
kitarach (locative plural)
kitaro (singular vocative)
kitary (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cytra and gitara.

lbor

(Ancient Greece) cithara (ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar)


lute

From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.

A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.


lute

en-verb

lute (third-person singular simple present lutes, present participle luting, simple past and past participle luted)

lutes (present singular third-person)
luting (participle present)
luted (participle past)
luted (past)

Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

in the air , her new voice luting soft

1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:


lute

en-noun

lute (countable and uncountable, plural lutes)

From Old French lut, ultimately from Latin lutum (“mud”).

He employed a mixture of flour and white of egg spread upon a linen cloth to cement cracked glass vessels, and used other lutes for similar purposes.

1830, Thomas Thomson (chemist), The History of Chemistry, volume 1, page 41:

Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.

(brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.


fiddle

→ Swahili: fidla

From Middle English fithele, from Old English *fiþele, from Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā, from Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ (“fiddle”), of uncertain etymology. Some contest that the Germanic terms are borrowed variations of Late Latin vitula (see viola); others contest that the word has a separate origin within Germanic languages, and still others believe that the Late Latin term for the stringed instrument is a borrowing from Germanic as a change of Latin t to Germanic þ is highly improbable, yet Germanic þ to Latin t is well documented (see troop, Teobaldo, etc.). Cognate with Old High German fidula (German Fiedel), Middle Dutch vedele (Dutch vedel, veel), Old Norse fiðla (Icelandic fiðla, Danish fiddel, Norwegian fela, Swedish fela).
The change from /ðl/ to /dl/ in modern English is regular; compare Bedlam, staddle, swaddle (in brothel, it was prevented; see that entry for discussion).

hang up one's fiddle when one comes home

there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

The fiddle of these early times, however, was the viol and not our modern violin.

1864, William Sandys et al., The History of the Violin..., page 38:

(usually proscribed) Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.

(UK slang, obsolete) A watchman's rattle.


gamba

From viola da gamba, ultimately from Italian gamba (“leg”). Doublet of gam, gamb, jamb, and jambe.

A rank of organ pipes, so called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.


gamba

Learned borrowing from Latin gamba (“leg”); compare gambol. Doublet of gam, gamb, jamb, and jambe.

lbor

(anatomy) The metacarpus or metatarsus of ruminants, etc.


viola

(botany) Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.


ukulele

ukuleles (plural)
eukaleli (alternative obsolete)
ukelele (alternative obsolete)
ukalele (alternative rare)
ʻukulele (alternative)

→ Czech: ukulele

→ Finnish: ukulele

→ German: Ukulele

→ Indonesian: ukulele

→ Malay: ukulele

desc

→ Portuguese: uquelele, (unadapted form) ukelele, uculele, (unadapted form) ukulele

→ Swedish: ukulele

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).


ukulele

ukulele (nominative singular)
ukulele (nominative plural)
ukulele (genitive singular)
ukulelí (genitive plural)
ukuleli (dative singular)
ukulelím (dative plural)
ukuleli (accusative singular)
ukulele (accusative plural)
ukulele (singular vocative)
ukulele (plural vocative)
ukuleli (locative singular)
ukulelích (locative plural)
ukulelí (instrumental singular)
ukulelemi (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from English ukulele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).


ukulele

ukulele (nominative singular)
ukulelet (nominative plural)
ukulele (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelet (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelen (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelet (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelen (genitive singular)
ukulelejen (genitive plural)
ukulelein (genitive plural rare)
ukulelea (partitive singular)
ukuleleja (partitive plural)
ukulelessa (inessive singular)
ukuleleissa (inessive plural)
ukulelesta (elative singular)
ukuleleista (elative plural)
ukuleleen (illative singular)
ukuleleihin (illative plural)
ukulelella (adessive singular)
ukuleleilla (adessive plural)
ukulelelta (ablative singular)
ukuleleilta (ablative plural)
ukulelelle (allative singular)
ukuleleille (allative plural)
ukulelena (essive singular)
ukuleleina (essive plural)
ukuleleksi (singular translative)
ukuleleiksi (plural translative)
ukuleletta (abessive singular)
ukuleleitta (abessive plural)
ukulelein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ukuleleni (nominative singular)
ukuleleni (nominative plural)
ukuleleni (accusative nominative singular)
ukuleleni (accusative nominative plural)
ukuleleni (accusative genitive singular)
ukuleleni (accusative genitive plural)
ukuleleni (genitive singular)
ukulelejeni (genitive plural)
ukuleleini (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleani (partitive singular)
ukulelejani (partitive plural)
ukulelessani (inessive singular)
ukuleleissani (inessive plural)
ukulelestani (elative singular)
ukuleleistani (elative plural)
ukuleleeni (illative singular)
ukuleleihini (illative plural)
ukulelellani (adessive singular)
ukuleleillani (adessive plural)
ukuleleltani (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltani (ablative plural)
ukulelelleni (allative singular)
ukuleleilleni (allative plural)
ukulelenani (essive singular)
ukuleleinani (essive plural)
ukulelekseni (singular translative)
ukuleleikseni (plural translative)
ukulelettani (abessive singular)
ukuleleittani (abessive plural)
ukuleleineni (comitative plural)
ukulelesi (nominative singular)
ukulelesi (nominative plural)
ukulelesi (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelesi (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelesi (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelesi (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelesi (genitive singular)
ukulelejesi (genitive plural)
ukuleleisi (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleasi (partitive singular)
ukulelejasi (partitive plural)
ukulelessasi (inessive singular)
ukuleleissasi (inessive plural)
ukulelestasi (elative singular)
ukuleleistasi (elative plural)
ukuleleesi (illative singular)
ukuleleihisi (illative plural)
ukulelellasi (adessive singular)
ukuleleillasi (adessive plural)
ukuleleltasi (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltasi (ablative plural)
ukulelellesi (allative singular)
ukuleleillesi (allative plural)
ukulelenasi (essive singular)
ukuleleinasi (essive plural)
ukuleleksesi (singular translative)
ukuleleiksesi (plural translative)
ukulelettasi (abessive singular)
ukuleleittasi (abessive plural)
ukuleleinesi (comitative plural)
ukulelemme (nominative singular)
ukulelemme (nominative plural)
ukulelemme (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelemme (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelemme (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelemme (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelemme (genitive singular)
ukulelejemme (genitive plural)
ukuleleimme (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleamme (partitive singular)
ukulelejamme (partitive plural)
ukulelessamme (inessive singular)
ukuleleissamme (inessive plural)
ukulelestamme (elative singular)
ukuleleistamme (elative plural)
ukuleleemme (illative singular)
ukuleleihimme (illative plural)
ukulelellamme (adessive singular)
ukuleleillamme (adessive plural)
ukuleleltamme (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltamme (ablative plural)
ukulelellemme (allative singular)
ukuleleillemme (allative plural)
ukulelenamme (essive singular)
ukuleleinamme (essive plural)
ukuleleksemme (singular translative)
ukuleleiksemme (plural translative)
ukulelettamme (abessive singular)
ukuleleittamme (abessive plural)
ukuleleinemme (comitative plural)
ukulelenne (nominative singular)
ukulelenne (nominative plural)
ukulelenne (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelenne (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelenne (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelenne (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelenne (genitive singular)
ukulelejenne (genitive plural)
ukuleleinne (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleanne (partitive singular)
ukulelejanne (partitive plural)
ukulelessanne (inessive singular)
ukuleleissanne (inessive plural)
ukulelestanne (elative singular)
ukuleleistanne (elative plural)
ukuleleenne (illative singular)
ukuleleihinne (illative plural)
ukulelellanne (adessive singular)
ukuleleillanne (adessive plural)
ukuleleltanne (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltanne (ablative plural)
ukulelellenne (allative singular)
ukuleleillenne (allative plural)
ukulelenanne (essive singular)
ukuleleinanne (essive plural)
ukuleleksenne (singular translative)
ukuleleiksenne (plural translative)
ukulelettanne (abessive singular)
ukuleleittanne (abessive plural)
ukuleleinenne (comitative plural)
ukulelensa (nominative singular)
ukulelensa (nominative plural)
ukulelensa (accusative nominative singular)
ukulelensa (accusative nominative plural)
ukulelensa (accusative genitive singular)
ukulelensa (accusative genitive plural)
ukulelensa (genitive singular)
ukulelejensa (genitive plural)
ukuleleinsa (genitive plural rare)
ukuleleaan (partitive singular)
ukuleleansa (partitive singular)
ukulelejaan (partitive plural)
ukulelejansa (partitive plural)
ukulelessaan (inessive singular)
ukulelessansa (inessive singular)
ukuleleissaan (inessive plural)
ukuleleissansa (inessive plural)
ukulelestaan (elative singular)
ukulelestansa (elative singular)
ukuleleistaan (elative plural)
ukuleleistansa (elative plural)
ukuleleensa (illative singular)
ukuleleihinsa (illative plural)
ukulelellaan (adessive singular)
ukulelellansa (adessive singular)
ukuleleillaan (adessive plural)
ukuleleillansa (adessive plural)
ukuleleltaan (ablative singular)
ukuleleltansa (ablative singular)
ukuleleiltaan (ablative plural)
ukuleleiltansa (ablative plural)
ukulelelleen (allative singular)
ukulelellensa (allative singular)
ukuleleilleen (allative plural)
ukuleleillensa (allative plural)
ukulelenaan (essive singular)
ukulelenansa (essive singular)
ukuleleinaan (essive plural)
ukuleleinansa (essive plural)
ukulelekseen (singular translative)
ukuleleksensa (singular translative)
ukuleleikseen (plural translative)
ukuleleiksensa (plural translative)
ukulelettaan (abessive singular)
ukulelettansa (abessive singular)
ukuleleittaan (abessive plural)
ukuleleittansa (abessive plural)
ukuleleineen (comitative plural)
ukuleleinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from English ukelele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).


ukulele

ukulélé (canonical)
ukulele-ukulele (plural)

Borrowed from English ukelele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele.


ukulele

ms-noun

ukulélé (Jawi spelling اوکوليلي, plural ukulele-ukulele)

ukulélé (canonical)
اوکوليلي (Jawi)
ukulele-ukulele (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from English ukelele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele.


ukulele

ukulele (indefinite nominative singular)
ukuleles (genitive indefinite singular)
ukulelen (definite nominative singular)
ukulelens (definite genitive singular)
ukuleler (indefinite nominative plural)
ukulelers (genitive indefinite plural)
ukulelerna (definite nominative plural)
ukulelernas (definite genitive plural)
ukulele (indefinite nominative singular)
ukuleles (genitive indefinite singular)
ukulelen (definite nominative singular)
ukulelens (definite genitive singular)
ukulelar (indefinite nominative plural)
ukulelars (genitive indefinite plural)
ukulelarna (definite nominative plural)
ukulelarnas (definite genitive plural)


bas

basowy (adjective)
bas (nominative singular)
basy (nominative plural)
basu (genitive singular)
basów (genitive plural)
basowi (dative singular)
basom (dative plural)
bas (accusative singular)
basy (accusative plural)
basem (instrumental singular)
basami (instrumental plural)
basie (locative singular)
basach (locative plural)
basie (singular vocative)
basy (plural vocative)

Possibly borrowed from Italian basso, or from French basse or German Bass, ultimately from Latin bassus. Compare Slovincian bas.


bas

bas (nominative singular)
basy (nominative plural)
basa (genitive singular)
basów (genitive plural)
basowi (dative singular)
basom (dative plural)
basa (accusative singular)
basów (accusative plural)
basem (instrumental singular)
basami (instrumental plural)
basie (locative singular)
basach (locative plural)
basie (singular vocative)
basy (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: bas

(music) bass (person who sings in the bass register)


crwth

crwths (plural)
crowd (alternative)
cruth (alternative)
crowth (alternative)
crouth (alternative)

From earlier crowd, from Middle English crowde, reinforced by and cognate to Welsh crwth; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round thing”).

We find in one period crwths, with the strings twanged with the right hand, and stopped above with the left, being held as we hold a violoncello to-day, but being small, on the lap.

1895, John Frederick Rowbotham, The Troubadours and Courts of Love:

(historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.


crwth

crythau (plural)
crwth
grwth (soft)
nghrwth
chrwth

From Middle Welsh crwth, from Proto-Brythonic *kruθ, from Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round thing”), perhaps related to Latvian krūtis (“breast, bust”), from Proto-Indo-European *krū̆t; but it could instead be loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate. Possibly related to Proto-Celtic *krundis (“round”). Compare Old Irish crott (“harp, lute”).


ud

(music, historical) alternative form of oud


гитара

ru-noun+

гита́ра • (gitára) f inan (genitive гита́ры, nominative plural гита́ры, genitive plural гита́р, relational adjective гита́рный)

гита́ра (canonical)
gitára (romanization)
гита́ры (genitive)
гита́ры (nominative plural)
гита́р (genitive plural)
гита́рный (adjective relational)
гита́ра (nominative singular)
гита́ры (nominative plural)
гита́ры (genitive singular)
гита́р (genitive plural)
гита́ре (dative singular)
гита́рам (dative plural)
гита́ру (accusative singular)
гита́ры (accusative plural)
гита́рой (instrumental singular)
гита́рою (instrumental singular)
гита́рами (instrumental plural)
гита́ре (prepositional singular)
гита́рах (plural prepositional)
гита́ра (dated nominative singular)
гита́ры (dated nominative plural)
гита́ры (dated genitive singular)
гита́ръ (dated genitive plural)
гита́рѣ (dated dative singular)
гита́рамъ (dated dative plural)
гита́ру (accusative dated singular)
гита́ры (accusative dated plural)
гита́рой (dated instrumental singular)
гита́рою (dated instrumental singular)
гита́рами (dated instrumental plural)
гита́рѣ (dated prepositional singular)
гита́рахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: gitari

→ Kazakh: гитара (gitara)

→ Mongolian: гитар (gitar)

→ Uyghur: گىتار (gitar)

→ Votic: gitari

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) change gear, swing-frame, swingarm, bracket


electric guitar

en-noun

electric guitar (plural electric guitars)

/əˈlɛk.tɹɪk ɡɪˈtɑːɹ/

He's playing the electric guitar and she's playing the drums!

A guitar which requires electronic amplification to produce sufficient sound.


bass guitar

/ˈbeɪsɡɪˈtɑːɹ/

A long-necked and solid-bodied stringed instrument (chordophone), tuned to produce bass or low notes, usually with a fretted fingerboard and four thick strings, and requiring the use of an amplifier.


acoustic guitar

acoustic guitar (plural acoustic guitars)

Retronym for guitar, coined after the invention of the electric guitar to refer to the older type of guitar and avoid confusion with the electric guitar.

He was playing the acoustic guitar while his girlfriend was on the drums.

A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar.


double bass

double basses (plural)
double-bass (alternative)

The largest stringed instrument of the violin family.


cello

cellos (plural)
celli (plural rare)
'cello (alternative)

→ Tokelauan: helo

Clipping of violoncello, the original name, from Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”, forming diminutives), violone (“big viola”) itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon”, forming augmentatives).

I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away.

2006 Nov. 22, Rob Paravonian, "Pachabel Rant", 00:00:33

Fitzgerald saw that Hemingway, oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to take cello lessons when growing up."

2020 Aug. 9, Jeffrey Meyers, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Tortured Friendship", The Article

A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.


cello

head

cello c (singular definite celloen, plural indefinite celloer)

celloen (definite singular)
celloer (indefinite plural)
cello (indefinite nominative singular)
celloen (definite nominative singular)
celloer (indefinite nominative plural)
celloerne (definite nominative plural)
cellos (genitive indefinite singular)
celloens (definite genitive singular)
celloers (genitive indefinite plural)
celloernes (definite genitive plural)


cello

nl-noun

cello m (plural cello's, diminutive cellootje n)

cello's (plural)
cellootje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: selo

→ Papiamentu: chèlo

Shortening of violoncello, from Italian violoncello. Influenced by German Cello.


cello

cello m (definite singular celloen, indefinite plural celloer, definite plural celloene)

celloen (definite singular)
celloer (indefinite plural)
celloene (definite plural)


cello

cello m (definite singular celloen, indefinite plural celloar, definite plural celloane)

celloen (definite singular)
celloar (indefinite plural)
celloane (definite plural)


cello

cello (indefinite nominative singular)
cellos (genitive indefinite singular)
cellon (definite nominative singular)
cellons (definite genitive singular)
cellor (indefinite nominative plural)
celli (indefinite nominative plural)
cellors (genitive indefinite plural)
cellis (genitive indefinite plural)
cellorna (definite nominative plural)
cellornas (definite genitive plural)


gitara

[ɡɪˈt̪a.ɾ̪ɐ]

Audio


gitara

Borrowed either directly from Spanish guitarra or through Ilocano gitara.


gitara

lt-noun

gitarà f (plural gitãros) stress pattern 2

gitarà (canonical feminine stress-pattern-2)
gitãros (plural)
gitarà (nominative singular)
gitãros (nominative plural)
gitãros (genitive singular)
gitãrų (genitive plural)
gitãrai (dative singular)
gitãroms (dative plural)
gitãrą (accusative singular)
gitaràs (accusative plural)
gitarà (instrumental singular)
gitãromis (instrumental plural)
gitãroje (locative singular)
gitãrose (locative plural)
gitãra (singular vocative)
gitãros (plural vocative)


gitara

pl-noun

gitara f (diminutive gitarka, related adjective gitarowy)

gitarka (diminutive)
gitarowy (adjective)
gitara (nominative singular)
gitary (nominative plural)
gitary (genitive singular)
gitar (genitive plural)
gitarze (dative singular)
gitarom (dative plural)
gitarę (accusative singular)
gitary (accusative plural)
gitarą (instrumental singular)
gitarami (instrumental plural)
gitarze (locative singular)
gitarach (locative plural)
gitaro (singular vocative)
gitary (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Russian: гита́ра (gitára)
→ Ingrian: gitari
→ Kazakh: гитара (gitara)
→ Mongolian: гитар (gitar)
→ Uyghur: گىتار (gitar)
→ Votic: gitari

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra. Doublet of cytra and kitara.

Marcin gra na gitarze.

(music) guitar (stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick))


gitara

gitára (canonical feminine)
гита́ра (Cyrillic)
gitara (nominative singular)
gitare (nominative plural)
gitare (genitive singular)
gitara (genitive plural)
gitari (dative singular)
gitarama (dative plural)
gitaru (accusative singular)
gitare (accusative plural)
gitaro (singular vocative)
gitare (plural vocative)
gitari (locative singular)
gitarama (locative plural)
gitarom (instrumental singular)
gitarama (instrumental plural)


gitara

sk-noun

gitara f (relational adjective gitarový)

gitarový (adjective relational)
singular
plural
nominative
gitara
gitary
genitive
gitár
dative
gitare
gitarám
accusative
gitaru
locative
gitarách
instrumental
gitarou
gitarami


gitara

Borrowed from Dutch gitaar or from English guitar.


gitara

[ɡɪˈt̪aː.ɾɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra, from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of sitara.


gitara

Borrowed from Tagalog gitara, from Spanish guitarra.


Amati

a violin made by a member of the Amati family.


Balalaika

de-noun

Balalaika f (genitive Balalaika, plural Balalaikas or Balalaiken)

Balalaika (genitive)
Balalaikas (plural)
Balalaiken (plural)
Balalaika (nominative singular)
Balalaikas (definite nominative plural)
Balalaiken (definite nominative plural)
Balalaika (genitive singular)
Balalaikas (definite genitive plural)
Balalaiken (definite genitive plural)
Balalaika (dative singular)
Balalaikas (dative definite plural)
Balalaiken (dative definite plural)
Balalaika (accusative singular)
Balalaikas (accusative definite plural)
Balalaiken (accusative definite plural)


Banjo

Banjo n (strong, genitive Banjos, plural Banjos)

Banjos (genitive)
Banjos (plural)
Banjo (nominative singular)
Banjos (definite nominative plural)
Banjos (genitive singular)
Banjos (definite genitive plural)
Banjo (dative singular)
Banjos (dative definite plural)
Banjo (accusative singular)
Banjos (accusative definite plural)


nabla

Inherited from Old Spanish nabla (1396), from Latin nabla, from Ancient Greek νάβλα (nábla, “Phoenician harp”), from ancient Hebrew נֵבֶל (nḗḇel) or a Phoenician cognate.

bor

stringed instrument
stringed instrument#English

(historical, music) nabla (A Hebrew stringed instrument.)


arpa

Inherited from Latin harpē (“bird of prey, falcon”), from Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon”).


arpa

Borrowed from Spanish arpa. Cognate of Tagalog alpa.


arpa

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.


arpa

lad-noun

arpa f (Hebrew spelling ארפה, plural arpas)

אי טי לוארי קון לה ארפה ,דייו מי דייו.

And I shall praise you upon the harp, God, my God.


arpa

From Latin harpē (“bird of prey, falcon”), from Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon”).


violoncello

en-noun

violoncello (plural violoncellos or violoncelli)

violoncellos (plural)
violoncelli (plural)

/ˌvaɪələnˈtʃɛləʊ/

/ˌviːələnˈtʃɛləʊ/

/ˌvaɪələnˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/

A borrowing of Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”, forming diminutives), violone itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon”, forming augmentatives).

A tentative violoncello is playing, invisible and plaintive, then stops with an asthmatic scrape of catgut.

2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 110:

Preserved under the rock-hard amber varnish was a beautifully crafted mythological scene depicting a nude man in a lush landscape playing a violoncello to a rapt audience of peaceful animals, including a jaguar, lion, swan, fox, peacock, horse, parrot, dogs, badger, deer, bull, ostrich, and no less than an elephant coming over the hill to join them.

2016, Fred R. Kline, Leonardo’s Holy Child, Pegasus Books Ltd., →ISBN:


violoncello

→ Catalan: violoncel

→ French: violoncelle

From violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”).


Leier

Leier (genitive)
Leiern (plural)
Leier (nominative singular)
Leiern (definite nominative plural)
Leier (genitive singular)
Leiern (definite genitive plural)
Leier (dative singular)
Leiern (dative definite plural)
Leier (accusative singular)
Leiern (accusative definite plural)
Lyra (alternative)

From Middle High German līre, from Old High German līra, from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

(music, also Drehleier) hurdy-gurdy (medieval fiddle with a wheel)


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

ja-ryk

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


mandolin

mandolins (plural)
mandoline (alternative)

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.

(music) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.


barbitos

barbitoi (plural)
barbiton (alternative)

From Latin barbitos, from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos).

The singer prepares his tone and rhythm on the barbitos before he adds his voice to the melody.

An ancient stringed musical instrument from Greece, apparently a type of lute or lyre.


barbiton

barbitoi (plural)
barbitos (alternative)

From Latin barbiton, from Ancient Greek βάρβιτον (bárbiton).

an ancient stringed musical instrument, apparently a type of lute or lyre


oud

en-noun

oud (countable and uncountable, plural ouds)

ouds (plural)
'ud (alternative)
oudh (alternative)

From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute.

The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated “beautiful” by my co-author. Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.

2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233:

(perfumery) Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes.


oud

Borrowed from French oud, or directly from Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of laúd.


koto

Seated on the soft carpet with their drinks, they listened to a recording of koto, Japanese thirteen-string harp.

1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 94:

(music) A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.


psaltery

psalteries (plural)
psaltry (alternative)
sawtry (alternative obsolete)

A learned alteration of Middle English sauterie, sautrie (rarely psautry), from Old French psalterie, from Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “stringed instrument, psaltery, harp”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “to touch sharply, to pluck, to pull, to twitch” and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, “to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectron”). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psalterium. Cognate of psalm and psalmody.

doublet

And at the dedication of the wall of Ieruſalem, they ſought the Leuites out of all their places, to bꝛing them to Ieruſalem, to keepe the dedication with gladneſſe, both with thankeſgiuings and with ſinging, with cymbals, pſalteries, and with harpes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 12:27:

(music) A zither-like musical instrument consisting of a soundboard with multiple strings, played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.


dobro

From the trade name "Dobro", used by Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, name of the inventors + brothers, also punning on Slovak dobro (“good”).

The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.

2007 January 21, Nate Chinen, “Dueling Banjos, Gospel Harmonies, Arabesques and Electric Eels”, in New York Times:

(music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator.


shamisen

shamisens (plural)
shamisen (plural)
samisen (alternative)
syamisen (alternative)

(music) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.

jabisen

used mainly in reference to archaic forms of the instrument from the Ryukyu Islands


バス

コントラバス コントラバス#Japanese

(music) clipping of コントラバス: a contrabass, a double bass, a bass


laúd

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd), via Andalusian Arabic. Doublet of oud.


三味線

/sän⁵⁵ weɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/sän⁵⁵ weɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 三味線 (shamisen).

obor

shamisen (Japanese three-stringed instrument)


三味線

ja-noun

三(しゃ)味(み)線(せん) • (shamisen) ^(←しやみせん (syamisen)?)

三味線 (canonical)
shamisen (romanization)
syamisen (romanization)
しやみせん (hiragana historical)

→ English: shamisen

→ Finnish: shamisen

→ Spanish: shamisen

[ɕa̠mʲisẽ̞ɴ]

The instrument derives from the Okinawan 三線 (sanshin). Originally called 蛇皮線 (jabisen, literally “snakeskin strings”) in Japanese, so named for the way the Okinawan instrument's soundbox is traditionally covered in snakeskin. The traditional jabisen instrument was imported into the Sakai area of Osaka during the Eiroku era (1558–1570), then later modified by biwa luthiers to have the square-shaped shamisen soundbox of today.
The reading jabisen shifted over time to 蛇味線 (jamisen), replacing the 皮 (bi, “skin, leather”) character with 味 (mi) for phonetic reasons, i.e. as ateji (当て字). Then jamisen changed to shamisen, replacing the 蛇 (ja, “snake”) character with 三 (sha , usually read san, “three”) for semantic reasons. The sha reading for the 三 character is irregular.
The shamisen reading is first cited to a text from 1580.

Capsella bursa-pastoris
Capsella bursa-pastoris#Translingual

short for 三味線草 (shamisen-gusa): the shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris


viol

Borrowed from Middle French viole, from Old French viol, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin vitula (“stringed instrument”). Doublet of viola.

der

He sayd that yᵉ ground opened, and he was brought into strange places underground, where they used musicall Instruments, violls, and Lutes, such (he sayd) as Mr. Thomas did play on.

1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 30:

(music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.


battle axe

battle axes (plural)
battleaxe (alternative)
battle-ax (alternative)
battleax (alternative)

Another battle-ax, in the same collection.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page x:

An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.


guqin

/ɡuːˈt͡ʃiːn/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古琴 (gǔqín), made up of 古 (gǔ, “ancient”) and 琴 (qín, “stringed instrument”).

Among those who will be making the Otter valley resound to the strains of the guzheng and erhu is Wu Wenguang, who plays a piece of music 1,800 years old on the guqin, an instrument known to have existed 3,000 years ago.

The kuchin is one of China’s oldest and most revered stringed instruments; its meditative character serves as a symbol of the CD’s inspiration.

[2006 September 22, Noah Buchan, “A Moving Sound gathers monentum”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2007-12-25, Features, page 13:

A plucked zither-like stringed instrument (chordophone), traditionally featuring seven unfretted strings, originating in ancient China.


guembri

guembris (plural)
gimbri (alternative)
ginbri (alternative)
guimbri (alternative)

Borrowed from Arabic كَمْبْرِي (kambrī).

A mu'alim (master musician) directs his musicians even as he also actively participates by playing an instrument known as the guembri to help draw the attention of the spirit world. The guembri, a three-stringed lute plucked with the fingers to […]

2016, Abdelmajid Hannoum, Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:

(music) A kind of lute used by Berber musicians.


cedra

Inherited from Old Spanish cedra (c. 1200), from Vulgar Latin citera, from Latin cithara. Doublet of cítola, cítara, and guitarra.


hearpe

hearpe (nominative singular)
hearpan (nominative plural)
hearpan (accusative singular)
hearpan (accusative plural)
hearpan (genitive singular)
hearpena (genitive plural)
hearpan (dative singular)
hearpum (dative plural)

Middle English: harpe

English: harp

Scots: harpe, herp, hairp


Geige

Geige (genitive)
Geigen (plural)
Geige (nominative singular)
Geigen (definite nominative plural)
Geige (genitive singular)
Geigen (definite genitive plural)
Geige (dative singular)
Geigen (dative definite plural)
Geige (accusative singular)
Geigen (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German gīge, from Old High German gīga, of unclear origin. Possibly from a Proto-Germanic *gīganą (“to move, wish, desire”) (based on the movement of a violinist's arms), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeyǵʰ-, *ǵʰeygʰ-, an extension of *ǵʰeh₂- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”), though this is semantically dubious. Alternatively an independent onomatopoeic formation. Cognate with Middle English gyge (“to make a creaking sound”), Old French giguer (“to play the fiddle”), English gig, English jig.

cog

Akademie-Verlag
Berlin
Wolfgang Pfeifer (etymologist)


古琴

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (古琴):
* → Japanese: 古琴(こきん) (kokin)
* → Korean: 고금(古琴) (gogeum)
* → Vietnamese: cổ cầm (古琴)

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/kuː³⁵ kʰɐm²¹/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/kuː³⁵ kʰɐm²¹/

彈古琴

弹古琴

(music) guqin; Chinese seven-stringed zither; qin


古琴

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/kuː³⁵ kʰɐm²¹/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/kuː³⁵ kʰɐm²¹/

Alternative name for 古琴臺／古琴台 (Gǔqín Tái).


古琴

古琴を弾く

古琴を奏でる


dotara

Borrowed from Bengali দোতারা (dōtara) and Assamese দোতাৰা (dütara), from Persian دوتار (do târ) with the Bengali-Assamese suffix -আ (-a, “having, -ed”).

A stringed instrument from Bengal resembling the mandolin.


bouzouki

bouzoukis (plural)
bazouki (alternative)
bousouki (alternative)
bouzoukia (alternative)
buzuki (alternative)

From Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”). Doublet of buzuq.

The bouzouki itself, identified by this time almost equally with a ‘Turkish’ past and with the criminality of the underworld that cultivated it, became a symbol of subversion in the eyes of the authorities.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 262:

(music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.


bouzouki

Borrowed from Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki), from Turkish bozuk.


bouzouki

bouzoukis (plural)
buzuki (alternative)
bouzuki (alternative)

Borrowed from Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”).


archtop

A style of large steel-stringed guitar having an arched belly, a neck at a slight angle to the body and a fretboard elevated above the soundboard.


Stratocaster

A compound of strato- + caster, a clipping of broadcaster.

(music) A popular electric guitar manufactured by Fender.


luta

luta (indefinite nominative singular)
lutas (genitive indefinite singular)
lutan (definite nominative singular)
lutans (definite genitive singular)
lutor (indefinite nominative plural)
lutors (genitive indefinite plural)
lutorna (definite nominative plural)
lutornas (definite genitive plural)


バイオリン

[ba̠io̞ɾʲĩɴ]


胡弓

/xu³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

/xu³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/


胡弓

kokyū (Japanese bowed lute with three or four strings)


ギター

ja-noun

ギター • (gitā)

→ Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)

→ Min Nan: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.
Aramaic קיתראbor.
Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.
Old Spanish guitarra
Spanish guitarrabor.
English guitarbor.
Japanese ギター
Borrowed from English guitar.

etymon

ギターを弾く

Daijisen
Kōjien
Shinmura Izuru
ja:ギター
ja:松村明


コントラバス

contrabass; double bass; bass (musical instrument)

Daijirin
Daijisen
Double bass
ja:コントラバス
ja:松村明


ウクレレ

[ɯ̟kɯ̟ɾe̞ɾe̞]

Borrowed from American English ukulele, ultimately from Hawaiian ʻukulele.


琵琶

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (琵琶):
* → Japanese: 琵琶(びわ) (biwa)
* → Korean: 비파(琵琶) (bipa)
* → Vietnamese: tì bà (琵琶)

→ Georgian: ფიფა (pipa)

→ Zhuang: bizbaz

/pʰi³⁵ pʰä³⁵/

/pʰi³⁵ pʰä³/

/pʰei̯²¹ pʰaː²¹/

/pʰei̯²¹ pʰaː²¹⁻³⁵/

/pʰi¹¹ pʰa¹¹/

/pʰi⁵⁵ pʰa⁵⁵/

/pi⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βa⁵³/

/pi²⁴⁻¹¹ pe²⁴/

/pi²³⁻³³ pe²³/

/pi¹³⁻²² pe¹³/

/pi²⁴⁻³³ pe²⁴/

/pi²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/ki²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/ɡi²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/kʰi²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/pi¹³⁻²² pɛ¹³/

/pi⁵⁵⁻¹¹ pe⁵⁵/

/pʰi³⁵ pʰä³⁵/

/pʰi³⁵ pʰä³/

/pʰei̯²¹ pʰaː²¹/

/pʰei̯²¹ pʰaː²¹⁻³⁵/

/pʰi¹¹ pʰa¹¹/

/pʰi⁵⁵ pʰa⁵⁵/

/pi⁵³⁻³³ ⁽ᵖ⁻⁾βa⁵³/

/pi²⁴⁻¹¹ pe²⁴/

/pi²³⁻³³ pe²³/

/pi¹³⁻²² pe¹³/

/pi²⁴⁻³³ pe²⁴/

/pi²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/ki²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/ɡi²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/kʰi²⁴⁻²² pe²⁴/

/pi¹³⁻²² pɛ¹³/

/pi⁵⁵⁻¹¹ pe⁵⁵/

Borrowed from a language in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. Compare Persian بربط (barbat, “barbat; lute”), Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos, “barbitos; ancient stringed instrument”).
Both characters were initially non-checked-tone characters. Reborrowed during the Tang Dynasty from a source that more closely resembles the modern Persian name of the instrument, both characters were read as if they have checked codas. The original non-checked readings were restored after the Ming Dynasty (bat carving head pipa). Compare the modern checked-tone dialectal readings of 枇杷 (pípá).
Much folk etymology exists surrounding the name origin. The dictionary Shiming [2nd CE] explains the name as 批把 (“slap-grasp”), reflecting the plucking movements while playing the stringed instrument. 琵琶 is also cognate with—and possibly gave rise to the name of (due to the similarity in shape)—枇杷 (pípá, “loquat”), which is also a non-native species.

cog

Yet we called and urged a thousand times before she started toward us,
Still hiding half her face from us behind her pipa.

816, 白居易 (Bai Juyi), 琵琶行 (The Song of the Pipa Player)

Qiānhūwànhuàn shǐ chūlái, yóu bào pípá bàn zhē miàn.

千呼萬喚始出來，猶抱琵琶半遮面。

千呼万唤始出来，犹抱琵琶半遮面。

pipa (plucked Chinese string instrument) (Classifier: 支 mn-t)

Han Dynasty
Shiming
Tang Dynasty
Western Regions


琵琶

琵琶 (canonical)
Biwa (romanization)
Bifa (romanization)
びは (hiragana historical)

/bipa/ → /biɸa/ → /biwa/
Borrowing from Middle Chinese 琵琶 (MC bjij bae). Although regular in native vocabulary, the sound change of /ɸ/ → /w/ is unusual in Sino-Japanese vocabulary.


琵琶

chữ Hán form of tỳ bà/tì bà (“pipa (pear-shaped plucked lute) or one of its derivatives (Vietnamese dan ty ba, Japanese biwa, Korean bipa)”)


harpa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arpa, from Late Latin harpa, from Frankish *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.


harpa

harpa (indefinite nominative singular)
harpas (genitive indefinite singular)
harpan (definite nominative singular)
harpans (definite genitive singular)
harpor (indefinite nominative plural)
harpors (genitive indefinite plural)
harporna (definite nominative plural)
harpornas (definite genitive plural)

→ Finnish: harppu

From Old Swedish harpa, from Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Norwegian and Danish harpe, Icelandic harpa, Faroese hørpa, harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.


electric bass

An electric bass guitar with four strings, larger than a normal electric guitar. It has a lower pitch and is often used as a back-up beat for the lead guitar.


三弦

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (三弦):
* → Japanese: 三弦(さんげん) (sangen)
* → Korean: 삼현(三弦) (samhyeon)

/sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑɻ³⁵/

/sam⁴⁴⁻²² hiɛn²⁴/

/sam⁴⁴⁻²² hiɛn¹³/

/sam⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɛn²⁴/

/sam⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɛn²³/

/sã³³⁻²³ hĩ⁵⁵/

/sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑɻ³⁵/

/sam⁴⁴⁻²² hiɛn²⁴/

/sam⁴⁴⁻²² hiɛn¹³/

/sam⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɛn²⁴/

/sam⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɛn²³/

/sã³³⁻²³ hĩ⁵⁵/

sanxian (fretless lute with three strings used in traditional Chinese music)


三弦

Orthographic borrowing from Chinese 三弦 (sānxián).

三弦協奏曲

協奏曲 きょうそうきょく

synonym of 三味線 (shamisen): a three-stringed musical instrument similar to a banjo played by plucking with a plectrum

三味線

a sanxian (fretless lute with three strings used in traditional Chinese music)

any other three-stringed musical instrument similar to the Chinese sanxian, Okinawan sanshin, or Japanese shamisen

the three types of lute used in 雅楽 (gagaku) music: the 琵琶 (biwa), 箏 (sō) , and 和琴 (wagon)


二胡

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (二胡):
* → Japanese: 二胡(にこ) (niko)
* → Korean: 이호(二胡) (iho)

/ˀɤɻ⁵¹ xu³⁵/

/jiː²² wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ᵑɡei³² vu²²⁻²²⁵/

/d͡zi²²⁻²¹ ɔ¹³/

/li²²⁻²¹ ɔ²⁴/

/li⁴¹⁻²² ɔ²⁴/

/ˀɤɻ⁵¹ xu³⁵/

/jiː²² wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ᵑɡei³² vu²²⁻²²⁵/

/d͡zi²²⁻²¹ ɔ¹³/

/li²²⁻²¹ ɔ²⁴/

/li⁴¹⁻²² ɔ²⁴/

erhu (bowed string instrument with two strings, used in traditional and classical Chinese music) (Classifier: 把 m; 個／个 c)


中胡

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ xu³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ xu³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

zhonghu; a bowed string instrument with two strings, used in Chinese music; tuned lower than the erhu


京胡

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ xu³⁵/

/kɪŋ⁵⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/kiã⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ²⁴/

/kiã⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ¹³/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ xu³⁵/

/kɪŋ⁵⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/kiã⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ²⁴/

/kiã⁴⁴⁻²² ɔ¹³/

jinghu (bowed Chinese string instrument with two strings and with a bamboo body and neck used primarily in Beijing opera)

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)


basse

Borrowed from Italian basso; homophony with Etymology 1 led to reinterpretation as a feminine, specifically as an ellipsis of la voix basse (“the low voice”).

(music) bass (a singer of the bass melodies)


アコースティックギター

ja-noun

アコースティック ギター

アコースティックギター • (akōsutikku gitā)

[a̠ko̞ːsɨ̥tʲik̚kɯ̟ ɡʲita̠ː]

ja:アコースティックギター


zhu

The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 筑 (zhù or zhú).

(music, historical) An ancient Chinese string instrument thought to have had a rectangular zither-like body with silk strings played with a bow.


gusli

(music) A plucked psaltery-like string instrument, usually played on the lap and sometimes created with table legs so that the musician can play it seated next to the instrument, originating in ancient Russian music.


octobass

From octo- + bass.
The name "octobass" comes from "octo-" meaning "eight" in Latin and "-bass", which is general name for any bass instrument (like "double bass", "contrabass" etc.). "Octo" is used because its range extending more than an octave below that of the double bass - it is tuned to A0, compared to the C1 that a double bass can stretch to, which makes octobass the lowest chordophone ever created.

(music) A very large bass requiring two musicians, one to finger and one to bow.


chitară

chitare (plural)
chitară (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
chitara (accusative definite nominative singular)
chitare (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
chitarele (accusative definite nominative plural)
chitare (indefinite singular)
chitarei (definite singular)
chitare (indefinite plural)
chitarelor (definite plural)
chitară (singular vocative)
chitaro (singular vocative)
chitarelor (plural vocative)
ghitară (alternative dated)

Borrowed from Italian chitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of ceteră, which was inherited from Latin, and țiteră, taken from German.

der

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)


chordophone

(music) Any musical instrument that produces sound from one or more vibrating strings; a string instrument.

cordòfon

chordophone — see also stringed instrument


gusle

gusles (plural)
gusla (alternative)
guzla (alternative)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian gȕsle /гу̏сле. Doublet of gusli.

bor+

gȕsle//гу̏сле

Songs of Brankovich's speed are sung to the strains of the gusle.

1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 30:

(music) A single-stringed lute-like musical instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played with a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.


cây

核 (CJK)
荄 (CJK)
𣘃 (CJK)
cân (alternative)
cơn (alternative)

LL-Q9199 (vie)-Jessica Nguyen (Pamputt)-cây.wav

Inherited from Proto-Vietic *gəl ~ *kəl (“tree”). Cognate with Muong câl, cấl, Kha Phong kɨl². Doublet of cấy.
Possibly from Proto-Austroasiatic *kəl (“to fell (trees)”); in that case, cognate with Semai kòl, Temiar kel, Proto-Bahnaric *kal (whence Koho köl), Proto-Katuic *kəl (whence Pacoh câl).
Alternatively, derived from a different root (currently unreconstructed) that yielded Proto-Khmuic *tŋkəl (“stump”) (whence Khmu [Cuang] tŋkɨl), Khmer គល់ (kŭəl), and Mon ဓဂဵု.

inh

string instrument
string instrument#English

musical instrument
musical instrument#English

(music) Indicates string instruments and some other types of musical instruments


fidel

fidel (nominative singular)
fidele (nominative plural)
fideli (genitive singular)
fideli (genitive plural)
fideli (dative singular)
fidelom (dative plural)
fidel (accusative singular)
fidele (accusative plural)
fidelą (instrumental singular)
fidelami (instrumental plural)
fideli (locative singular)
fidelach (locative plural)
fideli (singular vocative)
fidele (plural vocative)

vielle (medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin)


lead guitar

An electric guitar in a band that plays soloistically, usually playing melodically as opposed to strumming chords; supported by the rhythm guitar.

主音吉他

electric guitar that plays soloistically


guitarra

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítara and cistre.


guitarra

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara and cítola.


guitarra

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.
Aramaic קיתראbor.
Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.
Old Spanish guitarra
Spanish guitarrabor.
Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec guitarra
Borrowed from Spanish guitarra.


guitarra

guitarras (plural)
guitara (alternative)

Spanish: guitarra

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cedra.

Aurás por encuentro la companya de los proffectas deuallantes de la altura, et delant ellos es el salterio et la viola et la guitarra et la rabeua

1376–c. 1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, “De la informacion, insstruccion ho establimiento et començamiento de religion” (chapter 76), in [Rams de Flores o Libro de Actoridades], page 164c; republished as Conrado Guardiola Alcover, editor, Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1998, →ISBN, pages 222–223:


guitarra

→ Konkani: गितार (gitār)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cistre.


guitarra

guitarras (plural)
ghitarra (alternative Rumantsch-Grischun Surmiran)
ghitara (alternative Sursilvan Sutsilvan)


guitarra

→ Cebuano: gitara

desctree

→ English: guitar, guittar (obsolete), gittar (eye dialect)
→ Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)
→ Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)
→ Cantonese: 結他 /结他 (git3 taa1)
→ Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)
→ Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)
→ Irish: giotár
→ Japanese: ギター (gitā)
→ Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)
→ Hokkien: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)
→ Korean: 기타 (gita)
→ Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)
→ Scottish Gaelic: giotàr
→ Sidamo: giitare
→ Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)

→ French: guitare

⇒ Old French: guiterne

→ English: gittern

⇒ English: cittern

→ German: Gitarre

→ Hungarian: gitár

→ Latvian: ģitāra

→ Macedonian: гитара (gitara)

→ Polish: gitara

→ Russian: гитара (gitara)

→ Mongolian: гитар (gitar)

→ Serbo-Croatian: гитара

→ Tagalog: gitara

→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: qui̱töra

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.
Aramaic קיתראbor.
Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.
Old Spanish guitarra
Spanish guitarra
Inherited from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cedra.


guitarra

es-noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)


cithara

en-noun

cithara (plural citharas or citharai or citharae or (archaic) citharæ)

citharas (plural)
citharai (plural)
citharae (plural)
citharæ (archaic plural)
kithara (alternative)

From Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cither, guitar, kithara, kissar, and zither.

doublet

(music) An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar.


Mandoline

de-noun

Mandoline f (genitive Mandoline, plural Mandolinen)

Mandoline (genitive)
Mandolinen (plural)
Mandoline (nominative singular)
Mandolinen (definite nominative plural)
Mandoline (genitive singular)
Mandolinen (definite genitive plural)
Mandoline (dative singular)
Mandolinen (dative definite plural)
Mandoline (accusative singular)
Mandolinen (accusative definite plural)


gue

gues (plural)
gju (alternative)
gu (alternative)

Uncertain, perhaps from Old Norse gígja. If so, doublet of gigue.

(Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.


ectara

Borrowed from Hindi एकतारा (ektārā, literally “one-string”), ultimately from Classical Persian یکتار. Related to sitar.

bor

A one-stringed musical instrument from India.


bass viol

My piano teacher also plays the bass viol.

A fretted, bowed, stringed musical instrument from the viola da gamba family. It occupies the bass range and is the lowest instrument in the family. Similar to (but smaller than) a cello.

division viol

bass viol; a viol that plays in the bass range, but not a


erhu

erhu (plural)
erhus (plural)
erh hu (alternative)
erh-hu (alternative)
urheen (alternative)

From Mandarin 二胡 (èrhú), from 二 (èr, “two”) + 胡 (hú, “fiddle; short for 胡琴, a family of Chinese vertical fiddles”).

A rugged, handsome woman who can plant five fields in the time it takes others to plant one, Lu reveals her inner self by playing sweet music on the ehru ^([sic]) in a deserted factory site.

1994 October, Andrea Freud Loewenstein, “No More Happy Endings”, in Gay Community News, page 28:

Searches on Craigslist turned up no ads for erhus, wanted or offered, though there was a posting for an instrument found on the Lower East Side (the owner must identify the instrument).

2009 March 10, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Cherished Instrument Is Gone, and to Its Owner, Loss Is Like a Death”, in New York Times:

A type of bowed spike fiddle having two strings, originating in China as part of the huqin family of string instruments.


biola

Inherited from Malay biola, from Portuguese viola, from Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory.

(music) violin: A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family


biola

ms-noun

biola (Jawi spelling بيولا, plural biola-biola)

> Indonesian: biola (inherited)

→ Tausug: biyula

Borrowed from Portuguese viola, from Old Galician-Portuguese viola, from Old Occitan viola, from Medieval Latin vitula, from Vitula, Roman goddess of joy and victory.


tanbur

tànbūr (canonical masculine)
та̀нбӯр (Cyrillic)
tànbūr (nominative singular)
tanburi (nominative plural)
tanbúra (genitive singular)
tanbura (genitive plural)
tanburu (dative singular)
tanburima (dative plural)
tanbur (accusative singular)
tanbure (accusative plural)
tanbure (singular vocative)
tanburi (plural vocative)
tanburu (locative singular)
tanburima (locative plural)
tanburom (instrumental singular)
tanburima (instrumental plural)
tàmbūr (alternative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طنبوره (tanbura), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from Persian دنب بره (donb-e barre, literally “lamb's tail”).


vi-ô-lông-xen

[vi˧˧ ʔo˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ sɛn˧˧]

[vɪj˧˧ ʔow˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ sɛŋ˧˧]

[vɪj˧˧ ʔow˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ sɛŋ˧˧]

[jɪj˧˧ ʔow˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧ sɛŋ˧˧]


トンコリ

(music) peg tuned zither of the Ainu people of Hokkaido, Japan


三線

From 三 (san, “three”) + 線 (sen, “string”).

synonym of 三味線 (shamisen): a Japanese plucked string instrument played similarly to a banjo


三線

→ English: sanshin

→ Japanese: 三線 (sanshin)

a fretless plucked lute with three strings and skin-covered body, a precursor to the shamisen


viool

head

viool (plural viole, diminutive viooltjie)

→ Nǀuu: fijoolsi

From Dutch viool, from Middle French viole, from Medieval Latin vitula.


כינור

he-noun

כינור / כִּנּוֹר • (kinór) m (plural indefinite כינורות / כִּנּוֹרוֹת, singular construct כינור / כִּנּוֹר־, plural construct כינורות / כִּנּוֹרוֹת־)

כִּנּוֹר (canonical)
kinór (romanization)
כינורות (indefinite plural)
כִּנּוֹרוֹת (indefinite plural)
כינור (construct singular)
כִּנּוֹר־ (construct singular)
כינורות (construct plural)
כִּנּוֹרוֹת־ (construct plural)

→ Late Egyptian: knr, knjwr

Coptic: ϭⲓⲛⲏⲣⲁ (cinēra)

→ English: kinnor

→ Ancient Greek: κινύρᾱ (kinúrā)

→ Late Latin: cinyra

Italian: cinira

→ Italian: kinnor

זַמְּרוּ לַיהוָה בְּכִנּוֹר; בְּכִנּוֹר וְקוֹל זִמְרָה׃

Tanach, Psalms [[s:he:T2698#צח_ה|98:5]], with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

Sing praises unto the LORD with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody.

Zammrú l-Adonái b-khinnór; b-khinnór v-qol zimrá.

כִּנּוֹר הָיָה תָּלוּי לְמַעְלָה מִמִּטָּתוֹ שֶׁל דָּוִד

a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Berachot, 3b:

Kinnor hayá talúy l'máʿla mim-miṭṭató shel Davíd.

יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל זָהָב וְשֶׁל נְחֹשֶׁת וְשֶׁל אוֹר; הֲלֹא לְכָל שִׁירַיִךְ אֲנִי כִּנּוֹר

1967, Naomi Shemer, “ירושלים של זהב [Jerusalem of Gold]”, in שירי נעמי שמר [Songs of Naomi Shemer], performed by Shuly Nathan, Jerusalem, →OCLC:

Jerusalem of gold and of bronze and of light; am I not for all of your songs a violin?

Yerushaláyim shel zaháv v-shel n'ḥóshet v-shel or; haló l-khol shiráyikh ani kinnor


vioară

viori (plural)
vioare (plural)
vioară (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
vioara (accusative definite nominative singular)
viori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
viorile (accusative definite nominative plural)
viori (indefinite singular)
viorii (definite singular)
viori (indefinite plural)
viorilor (definite plural)
vioară (singular vocative)
vioaro (singular vocative)
viorilor (plural vocative)
vioară (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
vioara (accusative definite nominative singular)
vioare (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
vioarele (accusative definite nominative plural)
vioare (indefinite singular)
vioarei (definite singular)
vioare (indefinite plural)
vioarelor (definite plural)
vioară (singular vocative)
vioaro (singular vocative)
vioarelor (plural vocative)

Probably from Italian viola, but uncertain since the shift of l to r usually indicates a Latin source. The r may have come by analogy with vior (cf. înviora) < viu. Cf. also Old Occitan viola (Occitan viula), Spanish vihuela, French vielle.


cithare

English: cither

Haitian Creole: gita

Turkish: gitar

Borrowed from Latin cithara, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of guitare.


cítara

Learned borrowing from Latin cithara. Doublet of cistre and guitarra.


cítara

Borrowed from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of guitarra and cedra, the former entered through Arabic, and the latter was inherited from a Vulgar Latin variant.


biwa

Borrowing from Japanese 琵琶 (biwa). Doublet of bipa and pipa.

A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.


胡琴

/xu³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/wuː²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/ɔ¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/ɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/ɔ²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/ɦu²² d͡ʑin⁴⁴/

/xu³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/wuː²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/ɔ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/ɔ¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/ɔ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/ɔ²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/ɦu²² d͡ʑin⁴⁴/

Zhōngjūn zhìjiǔ yìn guīkè, húqín pípá yǔ qiāngdí.

中軍置酒飲歸客，胡琴琵琶與羌笛。

中军置酒饮归客，胡琴琵琶与羌笛。

(historical) a general term for foreign plucked string instruments of northern or northwestern origin


高胡

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ xu³⁵/

/kou̯⁵⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ xu³⁵/

/kou̯⁵⁵ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

gaohu (two-stringed vertical fiddle in the huqin family, used primarily in traditional Cantonese music as well as in the modern Chinese orchestra) (Classifier: 把)


箜篌

箜篌 (canonical)
箜篌 (canonical)
kugo (romanization)
kūgo (romanization)

From Old Japanese. First attested in a text from 780.
Also found with the lengthened reading kūgo. This appears to be less commonly used.

(music) a konghou, a kind of ancient Chinese harp


月琴

/ɥɛ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/jyːt̚² kʰɐm²¹/

/ŋyɛ⁴² keiŋ²¹/

/ɡə(ʔ)²⁴⁻² kʰim²⁴/

/ɡe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ kʰim²⁴/

/ɡe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/ɡue(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ kʰim²³/

/ɡue(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ kʰim¹³/

/ɦyɪʔ¹¹ d͡ʑin²³/

/ɦioʔ¹¹ d͡ʑin²³/

/ɥɛ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/jyːt̚² kʰɐm²¹/

/ŋyɛ⁴² keiŋ²¹/

/ɡə(ʔ)²⁴⁻² kʰim²⁴/

/ɡe(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ kʰim²⁴/

/ɡe(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/ɡue(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ kʰim²³/

/ɡue(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ kʰim¹³/

/ɦyɪʔ¹¹ d͡ʑin²³/

/ɦioʔ¹¹ d͡ʑin²³/

yueqin (short-necked fretted plucked lute with a round wooden body, used in the traditional music of China, particularly Beijing opera)


月琴

[ɡe̞k̚ʲkʲĩɴ]

月(げつ) (getsu, “moon”) + 琴(きん) (kin, “stringed instrument”)

ja-compound

a short-necked fretted plucked lute with a round wooden body, derived from the Chinese yueqin and formerly used in the traditional music of Japan


月琴

chữ Hán form of nguyệt cầm (“moon lute”)


揚琴

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (揚琴):
* → Japanese: 揚琴(ようきん) (yōkin)
* → Korean: 양금(揚琴) (yanggeum)
* → Vietnamese: dương cầm (揚琴)

/jɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/jœːŋ²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/iɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/iɔŋ²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/iɔŋ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/iũ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/jɑŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/jœːŋ²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/iɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/iɔŋ²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/iɔŋ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/iũ²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

Originally written as 洋琴 (yángqín), literally "foreign musical instrument".

yangqin (traditional Chinese hammered dulcimer)


京二胡

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ⁵¹ xu³⁵/

/kɪŋ⁵⁵ jiː²² wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ⁵¹ xu³⁵/

/kɪŋ⁵⁵ jiː²² wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

jing erhu (a two-stringed bowed instrument in the huqin family similar to the erhu, used along with the jinghu in Beijing opera)


해금

haegeum; a traditional Korean vertical bowed string instrument with two silk strings, derived from the Chinese xiqin


革胡

a four-stringed modernized bass bowed stringed instrument in the huqin family, developed in China in the 20th century; tuned and played like a cello


中提琴

ㄓㄨㄥ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄓㄨㄥ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tiɔŋ³³ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/t͡soŋ⁵⁵ di³³ d͡ʑin²¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tiɔŋ³³ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/tiɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/t͡soŋ⁵⁵ di³³ d͡ʑin²¹/


提琴

Sino-Xenic (提琴):
* → Japanese: 提琴(ていきん) (teikin)

/tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

tiqin (one of several bowed string instruments in the huqin family, used in traditional Chinese music) (Classifier: 把 m)


提琴

From Middle Chinese 提琴 (MC dej gim). Compare modern Min Nan reading thê-khîm, Cantonese tai⁴ kam⁴.

Depending on time period and region, this term may refer to the two-stringed tiqin or yehu, or to a sihu with four strings. Generally larger and with a lower range than the erhu.

a kind of traditional Chinese stringed instrument played with a bow


小提琴

ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/siːu̯³⁵ tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/sieu³³⁻³⁵ ^((tʰ-))li⁵³⁻³³ ^((kʰ-))iŋ⁵³/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/ɕiɔ³³ di⁵⁵ d͡ʑin²¹/

/ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/siːu̯³⁵ tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/ɕiɔ³³ di⁵⁵ d͡ʑin²¹/

拉小提琴

GT - General Taiwanese (no particular region identified)


大提琴

ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/tä⁵¹ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/taːi̯²² tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/tua²²⁻²¹ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tua⁴¹⁻²² tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/tä⁵¹ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/taːi̯²² tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/tua²²⁻²¹ tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tua⁴¹⁻²² tʰe²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ tʰe¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ tʰe²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/


低音提琴

ㄉㄧ ㄧㄣ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄉㄧ ㄧㄣ ㄊㄧˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

диинь тицинь

/ti⁵⁵ in⁵⁵ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/tɐi̯⁵⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/ti⁵⁵ in⁵⁵ tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/tɐi̯⁵⁵ jɐm⁵⁵ tʰɐi̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/


古箏

→ English: guzheng

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/kuː³⁵ t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/kɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/kuː³⁵ t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/kɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

guzheng (a long plucked zither used in Chinese traditional and classical music)


đàn nguyệt

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ ŋwiət̚˧˨ʔ]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ ŋwiək̚˨˩ʔ]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ ŋwiək̚˨˩˨]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 彈 (“classifier used for stringed instruments”) and 月 (“moon”).

vi-etym-sino

moon lute, a traditional Vietnamese plucked, fretted lute with a round body and two strings


đàn gáo

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ ɣaːw˧˦]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ ɣaːw˨˩˦]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ ɣaːw˦˥]

Compound of đàn (“musical instrument”) + gáo (“dipper”).

compound

a traditional Vietnamese bowed string instrument with two strings and a coconut shell resonator


đàn bầu

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ ʔɓəw˨˩]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ ʔɓəw˦˩]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ ʔɓəw˨˩]

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 彈匏 (SV: đàn bào).
Compound of đàn (“a classifier designating string instruments”) + bầu (“gourd; the instrument formerly had a resonator made from a dried gourd”).

der

SV: <i class="Latn mention" lang="vi">đàn bào</i>


classical guitar

en-noun

classical guitar (plural classical guitars)

A type of flat-tabled guitar of Spanish origin used primarily for Western classical music, flamenco, and Latin American music, with six nylon (formerly gut) strings, usually played with the fingers rather than with a plectrum.

guitarra clàssica

guitar used primarily for classical music


가야금

Literally "zither of Gaya," referring to the legendary origin of the instrument in the kingdom of Daegaya. Sino-Korean word from 伽倻琴, from 伽倻 (“Gaya confederacy”) + 琴 (“zither”).

ko-etym-sino

A long zither with bridges and between 12 and 25 strings; used primarily in Korean traditional and classical music.


đàn nhị

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ ɲi˧˨ʔ]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ ɲɪj˨˩ʔ]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ ɲɪj˨˩˨]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 彈 (“musical instrument”) and 二 (“two, in reference to the two strings”).

vi-etym-sino

a vertical bowed string instrument with two strings, used in the traditional and classical music of Vietnam


ajaeng

A bowed zither used in Korean traditional and classical music.


kannel

kannel (nominative singular)
kantelet (nominative plural)
kantelen (genitive singular)
kanteliin (genitive plural)
kannelta (partitive singular)
kantelia (partitive plural)
kantelee (illative singular)
kantelii (illative plural)
kantelees (inessive singular)
kanteliis (inessive plural)
kantelest (elative singular)
kantelist (elative plural)
kantelelle (allative singular)
kantelille (allative plural)
kanteleel (adessive singular)
kanteliil (adessive plural)
kantelelt (ablative singular)
kantelilt (ablative plural)
kanteleks (singular translative)
kanteliks (plural translative)
kantelenna (essive singular)
kanteleen (essive singular)
kantelinna (essive plural)
kanteliin (essive plural)
kantelent (exessive singular)
kantelint (exessive plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kandël. Cognates include Finnish kannel and Estonian kannel.


rabab

The hired musicians—rabab, hand drums, and ghärawnay, or Chinese flute—had learned “Kalinka” and “Ochi Chorniya”

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 846:

An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.


skrzypce

pl-noun

skrzypce nvir pl (diminutive skrzypki or skrzypeczki, related adjective skrzypcowy)

skrzypki (diminutive)
skrzypeczki (diminutive)
skrzypcowy (adjective)
skrzypce (nominative plural)
skrzypiec (genitive plural)
skrzypcom (dative plural)
skrzypce (accusative plural)
skrzypcami (instrumental plural)
skrzypcach (locative plural)
skrzypce (plural vocative)

violin (small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow)


скрипка

uk-noun

скри́пка • (skrýpka) f inan (genitive скри́пки, nominative plural скри́пки, genitive plural скри́пок, relational adjective скрипкови́й, diminutive скри́почка)

скри́пка (canonical)
skrýpka (romanization)
скри́пки (genitive)
скри́пки (nominative plural)
скри́пок (genitive plural)
скрипкови́й (adjective relational)
скри́почка (diminutive)
скри́пка (nominative singular)
скри́пки (nominative plural)
скри́пки (genitive singular)
скри́пок (genitive plural)
скри́пці (dative singular)
скри́пкам (dative plural)
скри́пку (accusative singular)
скри́пки (accusative plural)
скри́пкою (instrumental singular)
скри́пками (instrumental plural)
скри́пці (locative singular)
скри́пках (locative plural)
скри́пко (singular vocative)
скри́пки (plural vocative)

Uk-скрипка.ogg

скрипі́ти (skrypíty, “to creak”) + -ка (-ka). Compare Czech skřipky.


fiol

fiol (indefinite nominative singular)
fiols (genitive indefinite singular)
fiolen (definite nominative singular)
fiolens (definite genitive singular)
fioler (indefinite nominative plural)
fiolers (genitive indefinite plural)
fiolerna (definite nominative plural)
fiolernas (definite genitive plural)


rhythm guitar

A guitar in a band that provides rhythm, usually by playing chords or similar accompanying parts, to support the lead guitar.


baglama

From Turkish bağlama, from bağlamak (“to tie”).

At the end of the room, as if behind an iconastasis of song, oud, baglamas, and a kind of hammered dulcimer called a santouri were being played without a break.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:

A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.


valiha

(music) A form of bamboo zither from Madagascar


guitare

guitares (plural)
guithare (alternative obsolete)

→ Central Franconian: Jitta

→ Chadian Arabic: قتار (gitār)

→ Hijazi Arabic: قيتار (gītār)

→ Vietnamese: ghi-ta

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra. Doublet of cithare and cistre.


gitarr

gitarr (indefinite nominative singular)
gitarrs (genitive indefinite singular)
gitarren (definite nominative singular)
gitarrens (definite genitive singular)
gitarrer (indefinite nominative plural)
gitarrers (genitive indefinite plural)
gitarrerna (definite nominative plural)
gitarrernas (definite genitive plural)

From French guitare f, Spanish guitarra f or Italian chitarra f, all from Arabic قِيثَارَة f (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara f, from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ f (kĭthắrā). Of common ancestry to cittra and kitara.

der

Arabic قِيثَارَة f (qīṯāra)


semsemia

semsemias (plural)
simsimiyya (alternative)

Borrowed from Arabic سِمْسِمِيَّة (simsimiyya).

bor

سِمْسِمِيَّة


guitare acoustique

fr-noun

guitare acoustique f (plural guitares acoustiques)


guitare électrique

guitare électrique f (plural guitares électriques)


guitare basse

guitare basse f (plural guitares basses)


contrebasse

→ Persian: کنترباس (kontrbâs)

→ Turkish: kontrbas


wiosło

wiosłowy (adjective)
wiosło (nominative singular)
wiosła (nominative plural)
wiosła (genitive singular)
wioseł (genitive plural)
wiosłu (dative singular)
wiosłom (dative plural)
wiosło (accusative singular)
wiosła (accusative plural)
wiosłem (instrumental singular)
wiosłami (instrumental plural)
wiośle (locative singular)
wiosłach (locative plural)
wiosło (singular vocative)
wiosła (plural vocative)
wiesło (alternative)

Inherited from Old Polish wiosło, from Proto-Slavic *veslo.


basfiol

basfiol (indefinite nominative singular)
basfiols (genitive indefinite singular)
basfiolen (definite nominative singular)
basfiolens (definite genitive singular)
basfioler (indefinite nominative plural)
basfiolers (genitive indefinite plural)
basfiolerna (definite nominative plural)
basfiolernas (definite genitive plural)

(music) a double bass (largest stringed instrument of the violin family)


baglamas

From Greek μπαγλαμάς (baglamás), from Turkish bağlama.

This was the time when the younger cousin of the bouzouki, the baglamas, came into its own – the more easily to be concealed beneath clothing or in a specially designed pocket sewn into an overcoat.

(music) A plucked stringed instrument, a long-necked bowl lute, played in Greek music and often made of improvised materials; it is a high-pitched and small bouzouki with one string in an octave pair on the lower D and unison pairs on the four highest strings.


zongora

(music) A guitar-like musical instrument of Romania, having originally two strings and now four or five.


zongora

zongorák (plural)
zongora (nominative singular)
zongorák (nominative plural)
zongorát (accusative singular)
zongorákat (accusative plural)
zongorának (dative singular)
zongoráknak (dative plural)
zongorával (instrumental singular)
zongorákkal (instrumental plural)
zongoráért (causal-final singular)
zongorákért (causal-final plural)
zongorává (singular translative)
zongorákká (plural translative)
zongoráig (singular terminative)
zongorákig (plural terminative)
zongoraként (essive-formal singular)
zongorákként (essive-formal plural)
zongorában (inessive singular)
zongorákban (inessive plural)
zongorán (singular superessive)
zongorákon (plural superessive)
zongoránál (adessive singular)
zongoráknál (adessive plural)
zongorába (illative singular)
zongorákba (illative plural)
zongorára (singular sublative)
zongorákra (plural sublative)
zongorához (allative singular)
zongorákhoz (allative plural)
zongorából (elative singular)
zongorákból (elative plural)
zongoráról (delative singular)
zongorákról (delative plural)
zongorától (ablative singular)
zongoráktól (ablative plural)
zongoráé (singular)
zongoráké (plural)
zongoráéi (singular)
zongorákéi (plural)
zongorám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
zongoráim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
zongorád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
zongoráid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
zongorája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
zongorái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
zongoránk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
zongoráink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
zongorátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
zongoráitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
zongorájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
zongoráik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From the verb zeng (“to resound”), by analogy with words ending in -ora, interpreted as a suffix. An example of such a word is tambora, an obsolete form of tambura (“tamboura”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. First attested in 1787.

hu-langref

piano (percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings)


rebec

From Middle French rebec, alteration of rubebe (see English ribibe), from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb).

The villages also must have their visitors to enquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebbeck reads ev'n to the ballatry, and the gammuth of every municipal fidler, for these are the Countrymans Arcadia's and his Monte Mayors.

(music) An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.


rebec

rebec (nominative singular)
rebecit (nominative plural)
rebec (accusative nominative singular)
rebecit (accusative nominative plural)
rebecin (accusative genitive singular)
rebecit (accusative genitive plural)
rebecin (genitive singular)
rebecien (genitive plural)
rebeciä (partitive singular)
rebecejä (partitive plural)
rebecissä (inessive singular)
rebeceissä (inessive plural)
rebecistä (elative singular)
rebeceistä (elative plural)
rebeciin (illative singular)
rebeceihin (illative plural)
rebecillä (adessive singular)
rebeceillä (adessive plural)
rebeciltä (ablative singular)
rebeceiltä (ablative plural)
rebecille (allative singular)
rebeceille (allative plural)
rebecinä (essive singular)
rebeceinä (essive plural)
rebeciksi (singular translative)
rebeceiksi (plural translative)
rebecittä (abessive singular)
rebeceittä (abessive plural)
rebecein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
rebecini (nominative singular)
rebecini (nominative plural)
rebecini (accusative nominative singular)
rebecini (accusative nominative plural)
rebecini (accusative genitive singular)
rebecini (accusative genitive plural)
rebecini (genitive singular)
rebecieni (genitive plural)
rebeciäni (partitive singular)
rebecejäni (partitive plural)
rebecissäni (inessive singular)
rebeceissäni (inessive plural)
rebecistäni (elative singular)
rebeceistäni (elative plural)
rebeciini (illative singular)
rebeceihini (illative plural)
rebecilläni (adessive singular)
rebeceilläni (adessive plural)
rebeciltäni (ablative singular)
rebeceiltäni (ablative plural)
rebecilleni (allative singular)
rebeceilleni (allative plural)
rebecinäni (essive singular)
rebeceinäni (essive plural)
rebecikseni (singular translative)
rebeceikseni (plural translative)
rebecittäni (abessive singular)
rebeceittäni (abessive plural)
rebeceineni (comitative plural)
rebecisi (nominative singular)
rebecisi (nominative plural)
rebecisi (accusative nominative singular)
rebecisi (accusative nominative plural)
rebecisi (accusative genitive singular)
rebecisi (accusative genitive plural)
rebecisi (genitive singular)
rebeciesi (genitive plural)
rebeciäsi (partitive singular)
rebecejäsi (partitive plural)
rebecissäsi (inessive singular)
rebeceissäsi (inessive plural)
rebecistäsi (elative singular)
rebeceistäsi (elative plural)
rebeciisi (illative singular)
rebeceihisi (illative plural)
rebecilläsi (adessive singular)
rebeceilläsi (adessive plural)
rebeciltäsi (ablative singular)
rebeceiltäsi (ablative plural)
rebecillesi (allative singular)
rebeceillesi (allative plural)
rebecinäsi (essive singular)
rebeceinäsi (essive plural)
rebeciksesi (singular translative)
rebeceiksesi (plural translative)
rebecittäsi (abessive singular)
rebeceittäsi (abessive plural)
rebeceinesi (comitative plural)
rebecimme (nominative singular)
rebecimme (nominative plural)
rebecimme (accusative nominative singular)
rebecimme (accusative nominative plural)
rebecimme (accusative genitive singular)
rebecimme (accusative genitive plural)
rebecimme (genitive singular)
rebeciemme (genitive plural)
rebeciämme (partitive singular)
rebecejämme (partitive plural)
rebecissämme (inessive singular)
rebeceissämme (inessive plural)
rebecistämme (elative singular)
rebeceistämme (elative plural)
rebeciimme (illative singular)
rebeceihimme (illative plural)
rebecillämme (adessive singular)
rebeceillämme (adessive plural)
rebeciltämme (ablative singular)
rebeceiltämme (ablative plural)
rebecillemme (allative singular)
rebeceillemme (allative plural)
rebecinämme (essive singular)
rebeceinämme (essive plural)
rebeciksemme (singular translative)
rebeceiksemme (plural translative)
rebecittämme (abessive singular)
rebeceittämme (abessive plural)
rebeceinemme (comitative plural)
rebecinne (nominative singular)
rebecinne (nominative plural)
rebecinne (accusative nominative singular)
rebecinne (accusative nominative plural)
rebecinne (accusative genitive singular)
rebecinne (accusative genitive plural)
rebecinne (genitive singular)
rebecienne (genitive plural)
rebeciänne (partitive singular)
rebecejänne (partitive plural)
rebecissänne (inessive singular)
rebeceissänne (inessive plural)
rebecistänne (elative singular)
rebeceistänne (elative plural)
rebeciinne (illative singular)
rebeceihinne (illative plural)
rebecillänne (adessive singular)
rebeceillänne (adessive plural)
rebeciltänne (ablative singular)
rebeceiltänne (ablative plural)
rebecillenne (allative singular)
rebeceillenne (allative plural)
rebecinänne (essive singular)
rebeceinänne (essive plural)
rebeciksenne (singular translative)
rebeceiksenne (plural translative)
rebecittänne (abessive singular)
rebeceittänne (abessive plural)
rebeceinenne (comitative plural)
rebecinsä (nominative singular)
rebecinsä (nominative plural)
rebecinsä (accusative nominative singular)
rebecinsä (accusative nominative plural)
rebecinsä (accusative genitive singular)
rebecinsä (accusative genitive plural)
rebecinsä (genitive singular)
rebeciensä (genitive plural)
rebeciään (partitive singular)
rebeciänsä (partitive singular)
rebecejään (partitive plural)
rebecejänsä (partitive plural)
rebecissään (inessive singular)
rebecissänsä (inessive singular)
rebeceissään (inessive plural)
rebeceissänsä (inessive plural)
rebecistään (elative singular)
rebecistänsä (elative singular)
rebeceistään (elative plural)
rebeceistänsä (elative plural)
rebeciinsä (illative singular)
rebeceihinsä (illative plural)
rebecillään (adessive singular)
rebecillänsä (adessive singular)
rebeceillään (adessive plural)
rebeceillänsä (adessive plural)
rebeciltään (ablative singular)
rebeciltänsä (ablative singular)
rebeceiltään (ablative plural)
rebeceiltänsä (ablative plural)
rebecilleen (allative singular)
rebecillensä (allative singular)
rebeceilleen (allative plural)
rebeceillensä (allative plural)
rebecinään (essive singular)
rebecinänsä (essive singular)
rebeceinään (essive plural)
rebeceinänsä (essive plural)
rebecikseen (singular translative)
rebeciksensä (singular translative)
rebeceikseen (plural translative)
rebeceiksensä (plural translative)
rebecittään (abessive singular)
rebecittänsä (abessive singular)
rebeceittään (abessive plural)
rebeceittänsä (abessive plural)
rebeceineen (comitative plural)
rebeceinensä (comitative plural)


dudy

dudy (nominative plural)
dud (genitive plural)
dudom (dative plural)
dudy (accusative plural)
dudami (instrumental plural)
dudach (locative plural)
dudy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *duda. According to Duden, this is a borrowing from Turkish düdük (“whistle, pipe”).


kontrabas

kontrabas (nominative singular)
kontrabasy (nominative plural)
kontrabasu (genitive singular)
kontrabasów (genitive plural)
kontrabasowi (dative singular)
kontrabasom (dative plural)
kontrabas (accusative singular)
kontrabasy (accusative plural)
kontrabasem (instrumental singular)
kontrabasami (instrumental plural)
kontrabasie (locative singular)
kontrabasach (locative plural)
kontrabasie (singular vocative)
kontrabasy (plural vocative)


vielle

From Old French viele, vielle. Doublet of viola.

(music) A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin.


violone

Borrowed from Italian violone (“big viola”), from viola + -one (“-oon, forming augmentatives"”).

An early stringed instrument similar to a double bass.


violone

English: violone

From viola + -one (“-oon: forming augmentatives”).


pianino

pianino (nominative singular)
pianina (nominative plural)
pianina (genitive singular)
pianin (genitive plural)
pianinu (dative singular)
pianinom (dative plural)
pianino (accusative singular)
pianina (accusative plural)
pianinem (instrumental singular)
pianinami (instrumental plural)
pianinie (locative singular)
pianinach (locative plural)
pianino (singular vocative)
pianina (plural vocative)

upright piano (piano whose strings are vertical)


арфа

bg-noun

а́рфа • (árfa) f

а́рфа (canonical)
árfa (romanization)
а́рфа (indefinite singular)
а́рфи (indefinite plural)
а́рфата (definite singular)
а́рфите (definite plural)

(music) harp (a musical instrument with many strings)


арфа

arfa (romanization)
арфа (nominative singular)
арфалар (nominative plural)
арфаның (genitive singular)
арфалардың (genitive plural)
арфаға (dative singular)
арфаларға (dative plural)
арфаны (accusative singular)
арфаларды (accusative plural)
арфада (locative singular)
арфаларда (locative plural)
арфадан (ablative singular)
арфалардан (ablative plural)
арфамен (instrumental singular)
арфалармен (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Russian а́рфа (árfa), from German Harfe.

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арфа

ru-noun+

а́рфа • (árfa) f inan (genitive а́рфы, nominative plural а́рфы, genitive plural арф)

а́рфа (canonical)
árfa (romanization)
а́рфы (genitive)
а́рфы (nominative plural)
арф (genitive plural)
а́рфа (nominative singular)
а́рфы (nominative plural)
а́рфы (genitive singular)
а́рф (genitive plural)
а́рфе (dative singular)
а́рфам (dative plural)
а́рфу (accusative singular)
а́рфы (accusative plural)
а́рфой (instrumental singular)
а́рфою (instrumental singular)
а́рфами (instrumental plural)
а́рфе (prepositional singular)
а́рфах (plural prepositional)
а́рфа (dated nominative singular)
а́рфы (dated nominative plural)
а́рфы (dated genitive singular)
а́рфъ (dated genitive plural)
а́рфѣ (dated dative singular)
а́рфамъ (dated dative plural)
а́рфу (accusative dated singular)
а́рфы (accusative dated plural)
а́рфой (dated instrumental singular)
а́рфою (dated instrumental singular)
а́рфами (dated instrumental plural)
а́рфѣ (dated prepositional singular)
а́рфахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Turkmen: arfa


арфа

uk-noun

а́рфа • (árfa) f inan (genitive а́рфи, nominative plural а́рфи, genitive plural арф)

а́рфа (canonical)
árfa (romanization)
а́рфи (genitive)
а́рфи (nominative plural)
арф (genitive plural)
а́рфа (nominative singular)
а́рфи (nominative plural)
а́рфи (genitive singular)
арф (genitive plural)
а́рфі (dative singular)
а́рфам (dative plural)
а́рфу (accusative singular)
а́рфи (accusative plural)
а́рфою (instrumental singular)
а́рфами (instrumental plural)
а́рфі (locative singular)
а́рфах (locative plural)
а́рфо (singular vocative)
а́рфи (plural vocative)
га́рфа (alternative)


контрабас

bg-noun

контраба́сов

контраба́с • (kontrabás) m (relational adjective контраба́сов)

контраба́с (canonical)
kontrabás (romanization)
контраба́сов (adjective relational)
контраба́с (indefinite singular)
контраба́си (indefinite plural)
контраба́сът (definite singular subjective)
контраба́сите (definite plural subjective)
контраба́са (definite objective singular)
контраба́сите (definite objective plural)
контраба́са (count-form plural)

bg-ndecl

контраба́с<>

bg:контрабас