контрабас

uk-noun

контраба́с<>

контраба́совий

контраба́с • (kontrabás) m inan (genitive контраба́са, nominative plural контраба́си, genitive plural контраба́сів, relational adjective контраба́совий)

контраба́с (canonical)
kontrabás (romanization)
контраба́са (genitive)
контраба́си (nominative plural)
контраба́сів (genitive plural)
контраба́совий (adjective relational)
контраба́с (nominative singular)
контраба́си (nominative plural)
контраба́са (genitive singular)
контраба́сів (genitive plural)
контраба́сові (dative singular)
контраба́су (dative singular)
контраба́сам (dative plural)
контраба́с (accusative singular)
контраба́си (accusative plural)
контраба́сом (instrumental singular)
контраба́сами (instrumental plural)
контраба́сі (locative singular)
контраба́сах (locative plural)
контраба́се (singular vocative)
контраба́си (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

контраба́с<>


シタール

[ɕi̥ta̠ːɾɯ̟]

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バンジョー

ja-noun

バンジョー • (banjō)

[bã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑo̞ː]


ハープ

ハープ • (hāpu)

1999 July 5, “ハープの精(せい) [Spirit of the Harp]”, in Vol.2, Konami:

A spirit who plays the harp in heaven. Her melody soothes the frantic mind.

天界でハープをかなでる精霊。その音色はまわりの心をなごます。

Tenkai de hāpu o kanaderu seirei. Sono neiro wa mawari no kokoro o nagomasu.

1999 July 5, “ミューズの天(てん)使(し) [Muse Angel]”, in BOOSTER 3, Konami:

An angelic artist who is so masterful with the harp, no one ever can outperform her.

芸術家の天使。特にハープの演奏は、右に出る者はいない。

Geijutsuka no tenshi. Toku ni hāpu no ensō wa, migi ni deru mono wa inai.


balalaikka

balalaikka (nominative singular)
balalaikat (nominative plural)
balalaikan (genitive singular)
balalaikkoin (genitive plural)
balalaikkaa (partitive singular)
balalaikkoja (partitive plural)
balalaikkaa (illative singular)
balalaikkoi (illative plural)
balalaikaas (inessive singular)
balalaikois (inessive plural)
balalaikast (elative singular)
balalaikoist (elative plural)
balalaikalle (allative singular)
balalaikoille (allative plural)
balalaikaal (adessive singular)
balalaikoil (adessive plural)
balalaikalt (ablative singular)
balalaikoilt (ablative plural)
balalaikaks (singular translative)
balalaikoiks (plural translative)
balalaikkanna (essive singular)
balalaikkaan (essive singular)
balalaikkoinna (essive plural)
balalaikkoin (essive plural)
balalaikkant (exessive singular)
balalaikkoint (exessive plural)

/ˈbɑlɑlɑi̯kːɑ/

/ˈbɑlɑlɑi̯kːɑ/

[ˈpɑɫɑˌɫɑi̯kːɑ]

Borrowed from Russian балалайка (balalajka).


bandura

banduras (plural)
bandora (alternative)
bandoura (alternative)

Borrowed from Ukrainian банду́ра (bandúra), possibly through Italian pandura and Polish bandura, from Late Latin pandura (“musical instrument with three strings”), from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra, “three-stringed lute; zither”), perhaps from Lydian.

der

He touches the strings and pours forth a song descriptive of his live, his wanderings, his anguish, and is discovered by the magic tones of the bandura, his adventures, above all, by his voice and passionate fire.

1871, [Nikolai Nikolaevich] Muraviev, “Return”, in Philipp Strahl, W[illiam] S[tephen] A[lexander] Lockhart, transl., Muraviev’s Journey to Khiva through the Turcoman Country, 1819–20. Translated from the Russian […]; and from the German […], Calcutta: Printed at the Foreign Department Press, […], →OCLC, page 81:

The whole night passed amid shouts, songs, and rejoicings; and the rising moon gazed long at troops of musicians traversing the streets with bandouras, flutes, round balalaikas, and the church choir, who were kept in the Setch to sing in church and glorify the deeds of the Zaporozhtzi.

1886, Nikolaï Vasilievitch Gogol, chapter III, in Isabel F[lorence] Hapgood, transl., Taras Bulba [...] Translated from the Russian, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], →OCLC, page 75:

I have an old bandura hanging up on the wall in the hut. Opanás taught me to play on it, but there is no one to play it after me; and when I die, and that may be soon, perhaps nowhere in the wide world will one be found to play the bandura.

1887, Vladímir Korolénko, “The Forest Soughs. A Forest Legend.”, in Aline Delano, transl., The Vagrant and Other Tales, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], →OCLC, page 50:

'Thank you, master, for your lesson. I will sing you a song if you will listen;' and he touched a string of the bandura.

1913, Bernard Pares, Maurice Baring, Samuel N[orthrup] Harper, editors, The Russian Review: A Quarterly Review of Russian History, Politics, Economics and Literature, volume 2, Paris, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson and Sons, →OCLC, page 177:

It was only at this time that bandura players emerged from underground. They had been banned from playing under the Tsar, and then they emerged and began to remind everyone openly about their Cossack past and to awaken feelings of nationalism in young children.

1988, Commission on the Ukraine Famine, quoting Oleksander Honcharenko (interviewee), “Appendix I: Translations of Selected Oral Histories [Case History LH38: Translated from Ukrainian by Darian Diachok]”, in Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932–1933: Report to Congress […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 337:

In the Ukraine of Russia the large bandoura with its almost circular face and as many as thirty strings (combining a zither function with fingered lute technique) is a popular short-necked lute, [...]

1997, David [Benedict] Reck, Music of the Whole Earth, New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 133:

The bandura, a kind of zither, is unique to Ukraine and is considered the national instrument.

1999 November, Alexis Kochan, Julian Kytasty, “Ukraine: The Bandura Played On”, in Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, and Richard Trillo, with Orla Duane and Vanessa Dowell, editors, World Music: Volume 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East (The Rough Guide), London: Rough Guides, published October 2000, →ISBN, page 309:

The classical bandura is tuned diatonically and has 20 strings and wooden pegs; the Kharkiv bandura is tuned diatonically or chromatically and has a single string mechanism and 34 to 65 strings; and the Kyiv bandura, which has 55 to 64 strings, is tuned chromatically.

2007, John Radzilowski, “Bringing Ukrainian Traditions to North America”, in Robert D. Johnston, editor, Ukrainian Americans (The New Immigrants), New York, N.Y.: Chelsea House, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:

A Ukrainian plucked stringed instrument with a tear-shaped body, like an asymmetrical lute or a vertical zither, which is played with both hands while held upright on the lap.

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bandura

Slovak: bandura

Ultimately from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra). First attested in the 18th century.


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żyrafa

pl-noun

żyrafa f (diminutive żyrafiątko, related adjective żyrafowy)

żyrafiątko (diminutive)
żyrafowy (adjective)
żyrafa (nominative singular)
żyrafy (nominative plural)
żyrafy (genitive singular)
żyraf (genitive plural)
żyrafie (dative singular)
żyrafom (dative plural)
żyrafę (accusative singular)
żyrafy (accusative plural)
żyrafą (instrumental singular)
żyrafami (instrumental plural)
żyrafie (locative singular)
żyrafach (locative plural)
żyrafo (singular vocative)
żyrafy (plural vocative)

→ Kashubian: żirafa

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
Classical Persian سرنا
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Middle French giraffe
French girafebor.
Polish żyrafa
Borrowed from French girafe.

etymon

(historical) piano whose strings and sound box are set vertically rather than horizontally, produced and used in the 18th and 19th centuries


sintir

Playing the sintir (a long-necked, resonant lute), Mr. Hakmoun leads spellbinding trance ceremonies, and with castanets around his ankles, performs acrobatic dances.

2007 January 12, The New York Times, “Rock/Pop Listings”, in New York Times:

(music) A three-stringed, skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco.


Stradivarius

en-noun

Stradivarius (plural Stradivariuses or Stradivarii)

Stradivariuses (plural)
Stradivarii (plural)

/ˌstɹædɪˈvɛəɹi.əs/

Named after the Stradivari family (Latin Stradivarius), an Italian surname either from the plural of Lombard stradivare (“toll-man”), or from strada averta (“open road”) in the Cremonese dialect.

(music) A violin made by another manufacturer, named to capitalise on the fame of the instruments made by Antonio Stradivari.


violoncelle

→ Persian: ویولنسل (viyolonsel)


wiolonczela

pl-noun

wiolonczela f (related adjective wiolonczelowy)

wiolonczelowy (adjective)
wiolonczela (nominative singular)
wiolonczele (nominative plural)
wiolonczeli (genitive singular)
wiolonczeli (genitive plural)
wiolonczel (genitive plural)
wiolonczeli (dative singular)
wiolonczelom (dative plural)
wiolonczelę (accusative singular)
wiolonczele (accusative plural)
wiolonczelą (instrumental singular)
wiolonczelami (instrumental plural)
wiolonczeli (locative singular)
wiolonczelach (locative plural)
wiolonczelo (singular vocative)
wiolonczele (plural vocative)

cello, violoncello (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)


バラライカ

Borrowed from Russian балала́йка (balalájka).


pedal steel guitar

en-noun

pedal steel guitar (plural pedal steel guitars)

(music) The elements of an electric steel guitar, mounted horizontally on a stand and played by a standing musician, using a combination of a steel bar and foot pedals to vary the pitch of the instrument.


berde

A stringed instrument (chordophone) of Bosnian origin, a large guitar-shaped instrument that is played upright, using a plectrum.


balalaica

bor+

Borrowed from Russian балала́йка (balalájka)


ektara

Ektara ektara (canonical)
ektaras (plural)
ectara (alternative)

The fingers of her right hand were strumming an ektara.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 131:

A single-stringed string instrument of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.


elbas

elbas (indefinite nominative singular)
elbas (genitive indefinite singular)
elbasen (definite nominative singular)
elbasens (definite genitive singular)
elbasar (indefinite nominative plural)
elbasars (genitive indefinite plural)
elbasarna (definite nominative plural)
elbasarnas (definite genitive plural)


electric violin

en-noun

electric violin (plural electric violins)

A violin equipped with an electronic output of its sound.


archlute

A fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with a large body, double courses in the bass, and two sets of tuning pegs.

liuti attiorbati

a small version of the standard archlute


charango

/t͡ʃəˈɹæŋɡəʊ/

From Spanish charango, onomatopoeic, or perhaps a corruption of charanga.

One song the group performed on Thursday, “La Partida,” featured lovely bell harmonics from the guitars, a shifting pattern of cross‐rhythms on the guitar‐like charango, and a quena lead.

1978 April 14, “Music: Inti‐Illimani, From the Andes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.


gitar

ms-noun

gitar (Jawi spelling ݢيتر, plural gitar-gitar)

Selain mempersembahkan lagu-lagu yang jarang dimainkan, Konsert "Wings Rockestra" bakal menampilkan pemain gitar jemputan.

2013 March 27, “Pemain gitar Indonesia untuk Wings Rockestra [Indonesian guitarists for Wings Rockestra]”, in Astro Awani:

In addition to performing rarely played songs, the "Wings Rockestra" Concert will feature guest guitarists.

Epiphone Casino
Gibson J-160E
Gretsch Duo Jet


mandoline

→ English: mandoline


lutnia

lutnia (nominative singular)
lutnie (nominative plural)
lutni (genitive singular)
lutni (genitive plural)
lutni (dative singular)
lutniom (dative plural)
lutnię (accusative singular)
lutnie (accusative plural)
lutnią (instrumental singular)
lutniami (instrumental plural)
lutni (locative singular)
lutniach (locative plural)
lutnio (singular vocative)
lutnie (plural vocative)

From Middle High German lūte + -nia, from Italian liuto, from Middle French lut, from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd).


altówka

altówkowy (adjective)
altówka (nominative singular)
altówki (nominative plural)
altówki (genitive singular)
altówek (genitive plural)
altówce (dative singular)
altówkom (dative plural)
altówkę (accusative singular)
altówki (accusative plural)
altówką (instrumental singular)
altówkami (instrumental plural)
altówce (locative singular)
altówkach (locative plural)
altówko (singular vocative)
altówki (plural vocative)

From alt + -ówka. First attested in 1784.

ref

Gazeta Warszawska (in Polish), number 79, 1784, page 8

koncertmistrz altówek

wirtuoz altówki

brzmienie altówki

grać/zagrać na altówce

viola (stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone)


flamenco guitar

en-noun

flamenco guitar (plural flamenco guitars)

(music) A type of acoustic guitar with reduced internal bracing and thinner tops. It is used mainly in the performance of toques, the guitar part of flamenco music.


crincrin

(derogatory) squeaky fiddle/violin; sawing, squeaking


angélique

angéliques (plural)
angelique (alternative)

Borrowed from French angélique. Doublet of angelic and angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”).

doublet

A plucked bowl lute with two necks and most often sixteen strings, played in the manner of a harp, and popular in Baroque Europe.


大胡

大 (“large”) + 胡 (hú, short for 胡琴 (húqín))

compound

dahu (larger version of the erhu, generally pitched one octave lower)


低胡

低 (dī, “low”) + 胡 (hú), short for 胡琴 (húqín)

dihu (large, bass version of the erhu, pitched one octave or more lower)


リュート

ja-noun

リュート • (ryūto)

Borrowed from English lute. First cited to a text from 1928.


二弦

→ Zhuang: ngeihyienz

/ˀɤɻ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/jiː²² jiːn²¹⁻³⁵/

/zi³³⁻²¹ hiɛn²³/

/d͡zi³⁵⁻¹¹ hĩ⁵⁵/

/ɤ̞²¹⁻¹¹ ɕi̯ẽ²⁴/

/ˀɤɻ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/jiː²² jiːn²¹⁻³⁵/

/zi³³⁻²¹ hiɛn²³/

/d͡zi³⁵⁻¹¹ hĩ⁵⁵/

/ɤ̞²¹⁻¹¹ ɕi̯ẽ²⁴/

(specifically) erxian (one of several bowed string instruments in the huqin family, used in traditional Chinese music)


cymbały

cymbałki (diminutive)
cymbały (nominative plural)
cymbałów (genitive plural)
cymbałom (dative plural)
cymbały (accusative plural)
cymbałami (instrumental plural)
cymbałach (locative plural)
cymbały (plural vocative)

cimbalom (type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Central and Eastern Europe)


luth

→ Persian: لوت (lut)

Inherited from Middle French lut, from Old French leüt, leüz, probably borrowed from Old Occitan laüt or laütz, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”); possibly through the intermediate of Old Spanish alod, alaut, laúd.


monocorde

monocordes (plural)
monochorde (alternative obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin monochordon, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μονόχορδον (monókhordon).


kobza

kobza (nominative singular)
kobzy (nominative plural)
kobzy (genitive singular)
kobz (genitive plural)
kobzie (dative singular)
kobzom (dative plural)
kobzę (accusative singular)
kobzy (accusative plural)
kobzą (instrumental singular)
kobzami (instrumental plural)
kobzie (locative singular)
kobzach (locative plural)
kobzo (singular vocative)
kobzy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ukrainian ко́бза (kóbza), from Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ.


fortepian

pl-noun

fortepian m inan (diminutive fortepianik, related adjective fortepianowy)

fortepianik (diminutive)
fortepianowy (adjective)
fortepian (nominative singular)
fortepiany (nominative plural)
fortepianu (genitive singular)
fortepianów (genitive plural)
fortepianowi (dative singular)
fortepianom (dative plural)
fortepian (accusative singular)
fortepiany (accusative plural)
fortepianem (instrumental singular)
fortepianami (instrumental plural)
fortepianie (locative singular)
fortepianach (locative plural)
fortepianie (singular vocative)
fortepiany (plural vocative)
fortepiano (alternative archaic)

piano, grand piano (large piano in which the strings are strung horizontally in a heavy frame shaped like a harp)


bałałajka

bałałajka (nominative singular)
bałałajki (nominative plural)
bałałajki (genitive singular)
bałałajek (genitive plural)
bałałajce (dative singular)
bałałajkom (dative plural)
bałałajkę (accusative singular)
bałałajki (accusative plural)
bałałajką (instrumental singular)
bałałajkami (instrumental plural)
bałałajce (locative singular)
bałałajkach (locative plural)
bałałajko (singular vocative)
bałałajki (plural vocative)


ghi-ta

[ɣi˧˧ taː˧˧]

[ɣɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]

[ɣɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]

ghi-ta điện


gaohu

A two-stringed vertical fiddle-like chordophone (stringed instrument) used as a leading instrument in Cantonese music.


cavaquinho

Borrowed from Portuguese cavaquinho, from the diminutive of cavaco (“fragment of wood”).

One person came back with a guitar, another with a Brazilian-style ukulele called a cavaquinho, and a third with a tambourine and a tantam drum with a long, thick neck.

2022 February 7, Jonathan Blitzer, “How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

A small guitar-string instrument of Portuguese origin, with four wire or gut strings, played with a plectrum.

कावाकीन्यू

small guitar-string instrument of Brazilian origin, with four wire or gut strings


cân

North Central Vietnam form of cây (“tree”)


santur

santurs (plural)
santūr (alternative)
santour (alternative)
santouri (alternative)
santoor (alternative)
santir (alternative)

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَنْتُور (santūr), of uncertain origin; sometimes suggested to be from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “psaltery”).

der

(music) A type of hammered dulcimer played in Persian music


中阮

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːn³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːn¹³/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːn³⁵/

/t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jyːn¹³/

zhongruan; tenor ruan (a Chinese round-bodied fretted, plucked lute with four strings)


阮咸

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (阮咸):
* → Japanese: 阮咸(げんかん) (genkan)
* → Korean: 완함(阮咸) (wanham)

/ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/ʐu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

Named after Chinese scholar 阮咸 (Ruǎn Xián) of the Six Dynasties period, who played a round-bodied, long-necked fretted plucked lute that was called Qin pipa (秦琵琶) in his time.

named-after

synonym of 阮 (“ruan (a Chinese long-necked fretted round-bodied plucked lute)”)


阮咸

A long-necked fretted round-bodied plucked lute of Chinese origin, used in Japan since at least the Nara period.


autoharp

Mr. Droste is usually the more ethereal, with the sweeter voice and the gentler melodies; he was the one strumming an autoharp for “Lullabye,” while Mr. Bear tapped a glockenspiel, and Christopher Taylor played a flute.

2007 March 9, Jon Pareles, “Three Bands on Trips That Lead to the ’60s”, in New York Times:

A string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers (muting bars) which mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord.


banjolele

A four-stringed musical instrument with a small membrane-covered body like a banjo, with a neck fretted like a ukulele.


cimbalom

cimbaloms (plural)
cymbalom (alternative)
cymbalum (alternative)
zimbalon (alternative)
zimbaloon (alternative)

From Hungarian cimbalom. Doublet of cymbal.

Either/Or, including Anthony Burr, clarinetist; Jane Rigler, flutist; and Richard Carrick and David Shively, percussionists, also employed the cimbalom, the Hungarian pianolike mutant whose twang remains familiar to boozy evenings in late-night Central European bars.

2007 September 17, Bernard Holland, “Cryptic Messages or Silence From the ’60s Avant-Garde”, in New York Times:

A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Central and Eastern Europe.


ngoni

Mr. Kouyate’s instrument is the four-stringed West African ngoni, also called a xalam[…].

2007 October 21, Kelefa Sanneh, “Under the Hook, Rap and Rhythm Lie the Beats”, in New York Times:

A West African stringed instrument, shaped like a guitar.


mandocello

mandocellos (plural)
mando-cello (alternative)

(music) A string instrument similar to a large mandolin


arpeggione

Whether it is better on the original arpeggione, I am helpless to say.

2007 February 1, Bernard Holland, “Schubert Whispers, Grieg Booms”, in New York Times:

A six-stringed musical instrument of the 19th century, fretted and tuned like a guitar but bowed like a cello, and held vertically between the knees.


barbat

From Persian بربط (barbat, barbot), from Middle Persian, possibly from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos), an unrelated musical instrument.

(historical) An ancient Persian plucked lute with a pear-shaped body, a flat belly, an angled back near the pegbox, and a fretless neck.


guimbarde

→ Catalan: guimbarda

→ English: guimbarde

→ Spanish: guimbarda

From Occitan guimbardo, from guimbar (“to jump”), from Old Occitan guimar (“to leap”), possibly from a hypothetical Gothic *𐍅𐌹𐌼𐍉𐌽 (*wimōn, “to rise [?]”), which would be related to Old Saxon upwimōn (“to rise”), Old High German ūfwiumen (“to well or bubble up”) and/or Old High German wemōn (“to sway, fluctuate”), all ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīpaną (“to wrap, wind”).


roseta

Etymology tree
Proto-Iranian *wardahder.?
Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon)bor.?
Latin rosalbor.
Old French rose
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Old French rosetebor.?
Old Galician-Portuguese roseta
Portuguese roseta
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese roseta, possibly borrowed from Old French rosete, from rose + -ete. By surface analysis, rosa + -eta.

etymon

(music) sound hole (opening in a stringed musical instrument)


ក្រពើ

km-noun

ក្រពើ • (krɑɑpəə)

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *krɓə(ə)ʔ (“crocodile”). Cognate with Northern Khmer กปฺือ, Pacoh carbơ.

จะเข้ จะเข้#Thai

(music) krapeu, a plucked, three-stringed zither in the shape of a crocodile used in classical Cambodian music; similar to the Thai จะเข้ (jà-kêe).


xalam

A traditional lutelike string instrument of West Africa.


nyatiti

The premier Luo musical instrument is the nyatiti, a lyre of eight strings converging inside a hide resonator, all housed in a trapezoid wooden frame.

2001, Okumba Miruka, Oral Literature of the Luo, EAEP, published 2001, page 14:

Recently, some nyatiti performers have collaborated with guitarists in beautiful combined productions.

2000, Radano/Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, page 373:

A quiet, largely acoustic CD with beautiful melodies and captivating rhythms that starts with nyatiti, praise songs and local rhythms.

1999, Simon Broughton et al., Rough Guide to World Music, page 522:

A traditional type of lyre with eight strings, used by the Luo people of Kenya.


nanga

The "shoulder harp" or "nanga" had a boat-shaped sound chest.

1950, Roslyn Rensch, The harp: from Tara's halls to the American schools:

The nanga of Nubia is similar; here also, long wooden pegs prevent the strings from slipping.

1975, Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments, page 403:

The artist uses his voice, he sings his laws to the accompaniment of the nanga, the harp; he twists his body to the rhythm of the drums, to proclaim his rules.

(music) A simple wooden harp or zither used in central and eastern Africa.


guitare rythmique

fr-noun

guitare rythmique f (plural guitares rythmiques)


נבל

he-noun

נֵבֶל or נֶבֶל • (nével) m (plural indefinite נְבָלִים, singular construct נִבְלֵי־) [pattern: קֵטֶל]

נֵבֶל (canonical)
נֶבֶל (canonical)
nével (romanization)
נְבָלִים (indefinite plural)
נִבְלֵי־ (construct singular)


banjouke

/ˈbænd͡ʒəʊˌjuːk/

[…] Morris's banjo and banjouke improvisations pulse along with William Parker's basslike zintir and Hamid Drake's drumming for an avant-garde Moroccan hoedown.

2003 October 10, Peter Margasak, “Joe Morris”, in Chicago Reader:


лютня

kk-noun

лютня • (lütnä)

lütnä (romanization)
лютня (nominative singular)
лютнялар (nominative plural)
лютняның (genitive singular)
лютнялардың (genitive plural)
лютняға (dative singular)
лютняларға (dative plural)
лютняны (accusative singular)
лютняларды (accusative plural)
лютняда (locative singular)
лютняларда (locative plural)
лютнядан (ablative singular)
лютнялардан (ablative plural)
лютнямен (instrumental singular)
лютнялармен (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Russian лю́тня (ljútnja), from Polish lutnia, from Czech loutna, from Middle High German lûte, from Italian liuto, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”).

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лютня

ru-noun+

лю́тня • (ljútnja) f inan (genitive лю́тни, nominative plural лю́тни, genitive plural лю́тен or лю́тней)

лю́тня (canonical)
ljútnja (romanization)
лю́тни (genitive)
лю́тни (nominative plural)
лю́тен (genitive plural)
лю́тней (genitive plural)
лю́тня (nominative singular)
лю́тни (nominative plural)
лю́тни (genitive singular)
лю́тен (genitive plural)
лю́тней (genitive irregular plural)
лю́тне (dative singular)
лю́тням (dative plural)
лю́тню (accusative singular)
лю́тни (accusative plural)
лю́тней (instrumental singular)
лю́тнею (instrumental singular)
лю́тнями (instrumental plural)
лю́тне (prepositional singular)
лю́тнях (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Polish lutnia, from Czech loutna, from Middle High German lûte, from Italian liuto, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”); see English lute.


лютня

uk-noun

лю́тня • (ljútnja) f inan (genitive лю́тні, nominative plural лю́тні, genitive plural лю́тень, relational adjective лю́тневий)

лю́тня (canonical)
ljútnja (romanization)
лю́тні (genitive)
лю́тні (nominative plural)
лю́тень (genitive plural)
лю́тневий (adjective relational)
лю́тня (nominative singular)
лю́тні (nominative plural)
лю́тні (genitive singular)
лю́тень (genitive plural)
лю́тні (dative singular)
лю́тням (dative plural)
лю́тню (accusative singular)
лю́тні (accusative plural)
лю́тнею (instrumental singular)
лю́тнями (instrumental plural)
лю́тні (locative singular)
лю́тнях (locative plural)
лю́тне (singular vocative)
лю́тні (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Polish lutnia, from Middle Low German lûte, from Italian liuto or Old French leüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”).

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альт

альт • (alʹt) m inan (genitive а́льта, nominative plural а́льти, genitive plural а́льтів, relational adjective альто́вий)

alʹt (romanization)
а́льта (genitive)
а́льти (nominative plural)
а́льтів (genitive plural)
альто́вий (adjective relational)
альт (nominative singular)
а́льти (nominative plural)
а́льта (genitive singular)
а́льтів (genitive plural)
а́льтові (dative singular)
а́льту (dative singular)
а́льтам (dative plural)
альт (accusative singular)
а́льти (accusative plural)
а́льтом (instrumental singular)
а́льтами (instrumental plural)
а́льті (locative singular)
а́льтах (locative plural)
а́льте (singular vocative)
а́льти (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Polish alt, from Italian alto


гітара

be-noun

гіта́ра • (hitára) f inan (genitive гіта́ры, nominative plural гіта́ры, genitive plural гіта́р, relational adjective гіта́рны)

гіта́ра (canonical)
hitára (romanization)
гіта́ры (genitive)
гіта́ры (nominative plural)
гіта́р (genitive plural)
гіта́рны (adjective relational)
гіта́ра (nominative singular)
гіта́ры (nominative plural)
гіта́ры (genitive singular)
гіта́р (genitive plural)
гіта́ры (dative singular)
гіта́рам (dative plural)
гіта́ру (accusative singular)
гіта́ры (accusative plural)
гіта́рай (instrumental singular)
гіта́раю (instrumental singular)
гіта́рамі (instrumental plural)
гіта́ры (locative singular)
гіта́рах (locative plural)
гіта́ры (count-form plural)
hitara (alternative)

Borrowed from Polish gitara or German Gitarre.

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гітара

uk-noun

гіта́ра • (hitára) f inan (genitive гіта́ри, nominative plural гіта́ри, genitive plural гіта́р, relational adjective гіта́рний)

гіта́ра (canonical)
hitára (romanization)
гіта́ри (genitive)
гіта́ри (nominative plural)
гіта́р (genitive plural)
гіта́рний (adjective relational)
гіта́ра (nominative singular)
гіта́ри (nominative plural)
гіта́ри (genitive singular)
гіта́р (genitive plural)
гіта́рі (dative singular)
гіта́рам (dative plural)
гіта́ру (accusative singular)
гіта́ри (accusative plural)
гіта́рою (instrumental singular)
гіта́рами (instrumental plural)
гіта́рі (locative singular)
гіта́рах (locative plural)
гіта́ро (singular vocative)
гіта́ри (plural vocative)

From Spanish guitarra, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára).


מנדולינה

he-noun

מַנְדּוֹלִינָה

מַנְדּוֹלִינוֹת

מַנְדּוֹלִינָה • (mandolína) f (plural indefinite מַנְדּוֹלִינוֹת, singular construct מנדולינת־, plural construct מנדולינות־)

מַנְדּוֹלִינָה (canonical)
mandolína (romanization)
מַנְדּוֹלִינוֹת (indefinite plural)
מנדולינת־ (construct singular)
מנדולינות־ (construct plural)


виолончело

violončelo (romanization)
виолончело (nominative singular)
виолончели (nominative plural)
виолончела (genitive singular)
виолончелох (genitive plural)
виолончелу (dative singular)
виолончелом (dative plural)
виолончело (accusative singular)
виолончели (accusative plural)
виолончелом (instrumental singular)
виолончелами (instrumental plural)
виолончелу (locative singular)
виолончелох (locative plural)
виолончелу (singular vocative)
виолончели (plural vocative)

[viɔlɔɲˈt͡ʃɛlɔ]

ви о лон че ло

Internationalism, ultimately from Italian violoncello.


nguyệt cầm

[ŋwiət̚˧˨ʔ kəm˨˩]

[ŋwiək̚˨˩ʔ kəm˦˩]

[ŋwiək̚˨˩˨ kəm˨˩]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 月琴, composed of 月 (“moon”) and 琴 (“stringed instrument”).


elektryk

pl-noun

elektryk m pers (female equivalent elektryczka)

elektryczka (feminine)
elektryk (nominative singular)
elektrycy (nominative plural)
elektryki (derogatory nominative plural)
elektryka (genitive singular)
elektryków (genitive plural)
elektrykowi (dative singular)
elektrykom (dative plural)
elektryka (accusative singular)
elektryków (accusative plural)
elektrykiem (instrumental singular)
elektrykami (instrumental plural)
elektryku (locative singular)
elektrykach (locative plural)
elektryku (singular vocative)
elektrycy (plural vocative)

electrician (tradesperson who installs, repairs, and maintains electrical wiring and equipment)


elektryk

elektryk (nominative singular)
elektryki (nominative plural)
elektryka (genitive singular)
elektryków (genitive plural)
elektrykowi (dative singular)
elektrykom (dative plural)
elektryk (accusative singular)
elektryki (accusative plural)
elektrykiem (instrumental singular)
elektrykami (instrumental plural)
elektryku (locative singular)
elektrykach (locative plural)
elektryku (singular vocative)
elektryki (plural vocative)

(colloquial, education) electrical technical school (secondary school with an electrical profile)


elektryk

elektryk (nominative singular)
elektryki (nominative plural)
elektryka (genitive singular)
elektryków (genitive plural)
elektrykowi (dative singular)
elektrykom (dative plural)
elektryka (accusative singular)
elektryki (accusative plural)
elektrykiem (instrumental singular)
elektrykami (instrumental plural)
elektryku (locative singular)
elektrykach (locative plural)
elektryku (singular vocative)
elektryki (plural vocative)

(colloquial) electric car (car that uses electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine, the power coming from rechargeable batteries)


elektryk

electronic cigarette
electronic cigarette

(colloquial) electronic cigarette, vapor pen (cylindrical battery-powered device that provides inhaled doses of nicotine by way of a vaporized solution)


soddgrwth

cy-noun

soddgrwth m (plural soddgrythau, not mutable)


bas dwbl

basau dwbl (plural)
bas dwbl
fas dwbl (soft)
mas dwbl
bas ddwbl (alternative)


basgrwth

basgrythau (plural)
basgrwth
fasgrwth (soft)
masgrwth


bipa

From Korean 비파 (bipa), from Mandarin 琵琶 (bípá). Doublet of biwa and pipa.

A pear-shaped lute with five strings, of Korean origin.


三味

Shortening of 三味線 (shamisen).
First attested in 1722.

short for 三味線 (shamisen): a shamisen: a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking, vaguely similar to a banjo


三味

Shortening of 三味線 (samisen).
This reading appears to be less common than shami.
First attested in 1677.

short for 三味線 (samisen): a samisen: a Japanese stringed instrument played by plucking, vaguely similar to a banjo


veena

From Hindi वीणा (vīṇā), and its source, Sanskrit वीणा (vīṇā), which is related to Middle Persian wn' (win, “veena, lute”).

When he wanted to test any of the principles he was enunciating or elucidating, he went over to the veena which sits in a glass case now and played for hours and substantially extended the vocabulary and scope of the instrument.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 339:

Shanmugavadivu continued to earn her income through her veena performances, and by introducing her daughters to the stage as soon as they were able.

2017, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, page 375:

(music) A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.


angelot

Borrowed from French angelot (“small angel”).

a coin minted in Paris by the English, during the reign of Henry VI.


colascione

colasciones (plural)
calascione (alternative)
colachon (alternative)

An early form of lute with a long neck; the mandora.


balalayka

Borrowed from Spanish balalaica, from Russian балала́йка (balalájka). The sense “homosexual male” is a play on bakla.


nebel

Borrowed from Hebrew נבל (nével, “harp, lyre”). Doublet of nabla.


gittern

gitterns (plural)
ghittern (alternative)

From Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern.

Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.

1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XIX, page 58:

A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.


skripka

skripka (nominative singular)
skripkat (nominative plural)
skripkan (genitive singular)
skripkoin (genitive plural)
skripkaa (partitive singular)
skripkoja (partitive plural)
skripkaa (illative singular)
skripkoi (illative plural)
skripkaas (inessive singular)
skripkois (inessive plural)
skripkast (elative singular)
skripkoist (elative plural)
skripkalle (allative singular)
skripkoille (allative plural)
skripkaal (adessive singular)
skripkoil (adessive plural)
skripkalt (ablative singular)
skripkoilt (ablative plural)
skripkaks (singular translative)
skripkoiks (plural translative)
skripkanna (essive singular)
skripkaan (essive singular)
skripkoinna (essive plural)
skripkoin (essive plural)
skripkant (exessive singular)
skripkoint (exessive plural)

Borrowed from Russian скрипка (skripka).


giotár

head

giotár m (genitive singular giotáir, nominative plural giotáir)

giotáir (genitive singular)
giotáir (nominative plural)
giotár (indefinite nominative singular)
giotáir (indefinite nominative plural)
a ghiotáir (indefinite singular vocative)
a ghiotára (indefinite plural vocative)
giotáir (genitive indefinite singular)
giotár (genitive indefinite plural)
giotár (dative indefinite singular)
giotáir (dative indefinite plural)
an giotár (definite nominative singular)
na giotáir (definite nominative plural)
an ghiotáir (definite genitive singular)
na ngiotár (definite genitive plural)
leis an ngiotár (dative definite singular)
don ghiotár (dative definite singular)
leis na giotáir (dative definite plural)
giotár
ghiotár
ngiotár

/ɟɪˈt̪ˠɑːɾˠ/

/ɟɪˈt̪ˠaːɾˠ/

Borrowed from English guitar, from Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára).

der

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)


zithern

The zitherns and mandolins have forms to match their pretty names, but the soul of the musical instrument abides elsewhere than in its body, and informs it only to the ear.

1876 August, “Characteristics of the International Fair”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 237:


shurangiz

bor

Persian شورانگیز

(music) A modern Iranian musical instrument, a member of the lute family, with a skin face and six strings.

شورانگیز

a member of the lute musical instrument family


tì bà

[ti˨˩ ʔɓaː˨˩]

[tɪj˦˩ ʔɓaː˦˩]

[tɪj˨˩ ʔɓaː˨˩]

pipa (pear-shaped plucked lute) or one of its derivatives (Vietnamese dan ty ba, Japanese biwa, Korean bipa)


đàn tam

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ taːm˧˧]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ taːm˧˧]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ taːm˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 彈 (“a classifier designating string instruments”) and 三 (“three”).

vi-etym-sino

a fretless lute with snakeskin-covered body and three strings


saw sam sai

A traditional bowed string instrument of Thailand. Its body is made from a special type of coconut covered on one end with animal skin, and it has three silk strings.


mandore

(music) An early form of lute that gave rise to the mandolin.


cittern

citterns (plural)
cither (alternative)
cithern (alternative)
cithren (alternative)
zittern (alternative)

This discourse took us much time, till it was time to go to bed; but we being merry, we bade my Lady goodnight, and intended to have gone to the Post-house to drink, and hear a pretty girl play of the cittern (and indeed we should have lain there, but by a mistake we did not), but it was late, and we could not hear her, and the guard came to examine what we were; so we returned to our Inn and to bed, the page and I in one bed, and the two captains in another, all in one chamber, where we had very good mirth with our most abominable lodging.

1661 January 17, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys: January 1661:

1911, Cittern, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
The cittern consisted of a pear-shaped body similar to that of the lute but with a flat back and sound-board joined by ribs. The neck was provided with a fretted fingerboard; the head was curved and surmounted by a grotesque head of a woman or of an animal.

The advent of the Spanish guitar in England led to the wane in the popularity of the cittern, also known at that time in contradistinction as the English or wire-strung guitar, although the two instruments differed in many particulars.

1911, “Guitar”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

Antwerp was world-famous for its harpsichords, but it was also a centre, in the 16th century, where citterns, lutes, viols and later violins were constructed with skill.

2000, Musical Instruments Museum, Visitor's Guide, page 93:

A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets, which is a precursor to the modern day guitar.


ציתר

he-noun

צִיתָר • (tsitár) m (plural indefinite צִיתָרִים)

צִיתָר (canonical)
tsitár (romanization)
צִיתָרִים (indefinite plural)


μπουζούκι

head

μπουζούκι • (bouzoúki) n (plural μπουζούκια)

bouzoúki (romanization)
μπουζούκια (plural)
μπουζούκι (nominative singular)
μπουζούκια (nominative plural)
μπουζουκιού (genitive singular)
μπουζουκιών (genitive plural)
μπουζούκι (accusative singular)
μπουζούκια (accusative plural)
μπουζούκι (singular vocative)
μπουζούκια (plural vocative)

bor

<i class="Latn mention" lang="tr">bozuk</i>

bouzouki, stringed musical instrument similar to a lute


vióla

head

vióla f (genitive singular vióla, nominative plural viólaí)

vióla (genitive singular)
viólaí (nominative plural)
vióla (indefinite nominative singular)
viólaí (indefinite nominative plural)
a vióla (indefinite singular vocative)
a viólaí (indefinite plural vocative)
vióla (genitive indefinite singular)
viólaí (genitive indefinite plural)
vióla (dative indefinite singular)
viólaí (dative indefinite plural)
an vióla (definite nominative singular)
na viólaí (definite nominative plural)
na vióla (definite genitive singular)
na viólaí (definite genitive plural)
leis an vióla (dative definite singular)
don vióla (dative definite singular)
leis na viólaí (dative definite plural)


iwcalili

iwcalilis (plural)
iwcalili
hiwcalili (prothesis-h)

Borrowed from English ukulele, from Hawaiian ʻukulele.


Stroh violin

Stroh violins (plural)
strohviolin (alternative)
Strohviolin (alternative)

Named after its German designer, Johannes Matthias Augustus Stroh.

(music) A violin that amplifies its sound through an attached metal resonator.


馬頭琴

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (馬頭琴):
* → Japanese: 馬頭琴(ばとうきん) (batōkin)
* → Korean: 마두금(馬頭琴) (madugeum)
* → Vietnamese: mã đầu cầm (馬頭琴)

ㄇㄚˇ ㄊㄡˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄇㄚˇ ㄊㄡˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/maː¹³ tʰɐu̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰoʊ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/maː¹³ tʰɐu̯²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

Calque of Mongolian ᠮᠣᠷᠢᠨ
ᠲᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠢ ᠲᠠᠢ
ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (morin toluɣai-tai quɣur, literally “fiddle with horse head”).

cal

ᠮᠣᠷᠢᠨ ᠲᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠢ ᠲᠠᠢ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ


馬頭琴

From Middle Chinese 馬頭琴 (MC maeX duw gim).


馬頭琴

chữ Hán form of mã đầu cầm (“morin khuur”)


morin khuur

Borrowed from Mongolian морин хуур (morin xuur).

A traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.


flygel

flygel (indefinite nominative singular)
flygels (genitive indefinite singular)
flygeln (definite nominative singular)
flygelns (definite genitive singular)
flyglar (indefinite nominative plural)
flyglars (genitive indefinite plural)
flyglarna (definite nominative plural)
flyglarnas (definite genitive plural)

From German Flügel (“wing”), related to flyga (“to fly”), the same as Danish flygel, Icelandic flygill. Historically also used in the sense of a bird's wing. Military sense since 1635. Of buildings since 1740. Of pianos since 1773. Doublet of flöjel.


ទ្រអ៊ូ

km-noun

ទ្រអ៊ូ • (trɔɔ ʼuu)

ទ្រ (trɔɔ) + អ៊ូ (ʼuu, “?”)

com

ទ្រ (trɔɔ) + អ៊ូ (ʼuu, “?”)

(music) tro u, the coconut fiddle, a kind of low-pitched two-stringed fiddle


nablo

Inherited from Old Spanish nabla (1300), from Latin nablum, from Ancient Greek νάβλα (nábla, “Phoenician harp”), from ancient Hebrew נֵבֶל (nḗḇel) or a Phoenician cognate.

bor

stringed instrument
stringed instrument#English

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


cytra

cytra (nominative singular)
cytry (nominative plural)
cytry (genitive singular)
cytr (genitive plural)
cytrze (dative singular)
cytrom (dative plural)
cytrę (accusative singular)
cytry (accusative plural)
cytrą (instrumental singular)
cytrami (instrumental plural)
cytrze (locative singular)
cytrach (locative plural)
cytro (singular vocative)
cytry (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Zither. Doublet of gitara and kitara.

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


armónico

armónicos (plural)
armonico (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish armónico (“harmonic”).

(music) A stringed instrument with seven strings in six courses and one string (the middle one) doubled; it is structurally a combination of a guitar and a tres.


ukelin

Originally a trademark. Blend of ukelele + violin.

Thats a ukelin on his lap and another next to it.

2007 November 4, Zo Wolff, “But Can He Hum?”, in New York Times:

(music) A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.


guitarra acústica

ca-noun

guitarra acústica f (plural guitarres acústiques)


guitarra acústica

es-noun

guitarra acústica f (plural guitarras acústicas)


guitarra elèctrica

ca-noun

guitarra elèctrica f (plural guitarres elèctriques)


guitarra eléctrica

es-noun

guitarra eléctrica f (plural guitarras eléctricas)


steel guitar

en-noun

steel guitar (countable and uncountable, plural steel guitars)

Steel guitar — in which the player used a metal or glass slide to note the strings — became popular when Hawaiian musicians, such as master steel guitarist Sal Hoopi, toured and recorded in the 1910a and 1920s.

2005, W. K. McNeil, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, page 167:

(music, uncountable) A method of playing slide guitar using a steel (a kind of slide).


octachord

octachords (plural)
octochord (alternative)

A musical instrument with eight strings.


bandurria

(It should be noted that the flamenco-tinged flourishes by Javier Mas, on bandurria and laúd, were more palatable than the ardently cloying solos by Dino Soldo, on saxophones.)

2009 February 21, Nate Chinen, “Pop Music’s Perpetual Old Man, Now 74, Is Back on the Road”, in New York Times:

(music) A plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.


bandurria

→ English: bandurria, bandore

From Latin pandurium, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra). Cognate to Portuguese pandeiro.


akonting

akontings (plural)
ekonting (alternative)

But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia.

2009 March 2, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:

A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.


huqin

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 胡琴 (húqín).

Any of a family of vertical bowed lutes used in Chinese music.


四胡

/sei̯³³ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ɬi⁴² ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ɔu¹³/

/ɬi⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ɔu²⁴/

/sei̯³³ wuː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ɬi⁴² ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ɔu¹³/

/ɬi⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ⁽ʰ⁻⁾ɔu²⁴/

四 (sì, “four”) + 胡 (hú, “fiddle”, short for 胡琴 (húqín), a family of Chinese vertical fiddles), implying "four-stringed fiddle." During the Qing Dynasty the original official name of this instrument was tiqin (提琴) and the original vernacular name was sixian (四絃) before sihu was finally adopted in the 19th century.

compound

short for 胡琴 (<i>húqín</i>), a family of Chinese vertical fiddles

sihu (a bowed string instrument with two pairs of strings used in Chinese folk music)


cistre

Borrowed from Middle French citre, from Vulgar Latin cithera, from Latin cithara (itself from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára)), and probably influenced by sistre, from Latin sistrum. Doublet of cítara and guitarra.


cistre

Inherited from Middle French citre, from Vulgar Latin cithera, from Latin cithara (itself from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára)), and probably influenced by sistre, from Latin sistrum. Doublet of cithare and guitare. Cf. also citole.


cistre

Borrowed from French cistre, from Middle French citre, from Latin cithara. Doublet of cítara, guitarra, and cítola.

cittern (stringed instrument of the Renaissance)


giotár fuaimiúil

head

giotár fuaimiúil m (genitive singular giotáir fhuaimiúil, nominative plural giotáir fhuaimiúla)

giotáir fhuaimiúil (genitive singular)
giotáir fhuaimiúla (nominative plural)
giotár fuaimiúil
ghiotár fuaimiúil
ngiotár fuaimiúil


strumstrum

strumstrums (plural)
strum-strum (alternative)
strum strum (alternative)

Probably from strum; compare also humstrum.

[…] in the Churches belonging to Indian Towns they have all sorts of Vizards, and strange antick Dresses both for Men and Women, and abundance of Musical Hautboys and Strumstrums. The Strumstrum is made somewhat like a Cittern; most of those that the Indians use are made of a large Goad cut in the midst, and a thin Board laid over the hollow, and which is fastned to the Sides: this serves for the Belly; over which the Strings are placed.

1697, William Dampier, chapter 5, in A New Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, page 127:

1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 279,
Their Guitars, if not their Sole, are their darling Instruments, and what they most delight in: Tho’ in my Opinion our English Sailors are not much amiss in giving them the Title of Strum Strums.

[The orator’s] cry […] was a species of musick to the mob, as agreeable as the sound of a bagpipe to a mountaineer of North Britain, or the strum-strum to the swarthy natives of Angola.

1769, Tobias Smollett, “The History and Adventures of an Atom”, in London, volume 1, Robinson and Roberts, page 106:

Banjo Byron that twangs the strum-strum there—

1876, Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, page 43:

They sent ashore for some Sing-Song girls, which, with the fellers that brought them, all night made the cabin thick with cigarettes and the stringing of a strum-strum.

1903, Chester Bailey Fernald, “A Yarn of the Pea-Soup Sea”, in Under the Jack-Staff, New York: Century, pages 247–248:

(archaic, often derogatory) Any stringed musical instrument that is played with the fingertips, especially one considered to be foreign.


phorminx

en-noun

phorminx (plural phorminxes or phorminges)

We beat the phorminx till we hurt our thumbs,
As if still ignorant of counterpoint.

1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “First Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:

A kind of lyre used by the Ancient Greeks.


chikara

chikaras (plural)
chinkara (alternative)

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).


tripodian

(Ancient Greece, music) An ancient stringed instrument, apparently resembling the Delphic tripod in form, and very difficult to play.


giotár rithime

head

giotár rithime m (genitive singular giotáir rithime, nominative plural giotáir rithime)

giotáir rithime (genitive singular)
giotáir rithime (nominative plural)
giotár rithime
ghiotár rithime
ngiotár rithime


giotár cruach

giotár cruach m (genitive singular giotáir chruach, nominative plural giotáir chruach)

giotáir chruach (genitive singular)
giotáir chruach (nominative plural)
giotár cruach
ghiotár cruach
ngiotár cruach


giotár clasaiceach

giotár clasaiceach m (genitive singular giotáir chlasaicigh, nominative plural giotáir chlasaiceacha)

giotáir chlasaicigh (genitive singular)
giotáir chlasaiceacha (nominative plural)
giotár clasaiceach
ghiotár clasaiceach
ngiotár clasaiceach


natural harmonic

en-noun

natural harmonic (plural natural harmonics)

(music) a sound produced by lightly touching the string as opposed to pressing it against the fingerboard, usually with the actual pitch notated


ribibe

ribibes (plural)
rubebe (alternative)
rybybe (alternative)

Well, my friend, and where is your ribibe, or such like instrument, belonging to a minstrel?

1841, Maria Elizabeth Budden, True Stories from English History. Chronologically Arranged:

"The tones of lutes and ribibes [translating German Ribeben]
I have right masterly and fine As ordered by imperial might.

1850, “Augustin, court musician to the emperor Maximilian I.”, in Hugh James Rose, editor, A New General Biographical Dictionary, volume 2:

The tone of the rubebe was similar to that of the lower register of the modern viola. As it possessed but two strings, however, its range was necessarily limited.

1880, Emil Naumann, translated by F. Praeger, The History of Music, volume 1, pages 258–259:

The Rybybe is well portrayed among the Norman carvings of the twelfth century which adorn the south doorway of Barfreston Church in Kent (Plate XV).

1911, Francis William Galpin, Old English Instruments of Music, page 81:

Over the high-altar at Gloucester the bosses, which are foliated in the rest of the choir, represent angel-musicians, whose varied orchestra would have out-rivalled that of Nebuchadnezzar the King; harp, hutchet and psaltery; lute, clarion, shawm; bag-pipe, ribibe, gittern; bozine, symphony, cymbals; organ, tabor and timbrel, the very names ring in one's ears like the stately cadences of celestial music.

1935, Mary Désirée Anderson, The Medieval Carver, page 86:

The rebec or ribibe, a favourite instrument with Chaucer, may be counted as one of the precursors of our violin.

1937, Philip K. Hitti, History of The Arabs:

The Persian hunting scene, the Arabian ribibi. Here, that is, in Janequin we find ground for one of the basic dissociations of music.

(historical) A kind of stringed instrument; a rebec or an instrument similar to it.


mandolin-banjo

(music) A hybrid string instrument (chordophone), combining the membrane-soundboard body of a banjo and the neck of a mandolin or violin.


manjo

(music, Ireland, informal) A mandolin-banjo


banjo-mandolin

banjo-mandolins (plural)
banjo mandolin (alternative)


krar

(music) A five-stringed, bowl-shaped lyre of Eritrea and Ethiopia.


begena

begenas (plural)
beganna (alternative)
beguena (alternative)
bèguèna (alternative)

A type of lyre of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin with a rectangular soundbox and ten strings, which is played with a plectrum.


decachord

From Ancient Greek δεκάχορδος (dekákhordos, “ten-stringed”), from δέκα (déka, “ten”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “guts, string of a musical instrument”).

compound

Apollo himself is depicted with a decachord, that is, an instrument with ten tuned strings, or ten harmonising voices, otherwise a cithara.

(historical, music) An Ancient Greek musical instrument with ten strings, resembling the harp.


سنتور

santur (romanization)
سنتورها (plural)
سنتور (singular)
سنتورها، سنتورا (santur-hấ, santurấ^△) (colloquial plural)
سنتور (ezafe singular)
سنتوری (definite relative singular)
سنتوری (indefinite singular stressed)
سنتورم (first-person possessive singular)
سنتورت (santúrat, santúret^△) (second-person singular)
سنتورش (santúraš, santúreš^△) (possessive singular third-person)

desc

→ Armenian: սանթուր (santʻur), սանթուռ (santʻuṙ)

→ English: santur, santūr, santour, santouri, santoor, santir

→ Ottoman Turkish: سانطور (santur)

Turkish: santur

[sän̪.t̪ʰúːɾ]

[sän̪.t̪ʰúːɾ]

[sän̪.t̪ʰúːɾ]

[sän̪.t̪ʰúɾ]

[sæn̪.t̪ʰúːɹ]

[sän̪.t̪ʰúɾ]

Sometimes suggested to be from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “psaltery”).

der

(music) santur (type of hammered dulcimer played in Persian music)


банджо

uk-noun

ба́нджо • (bándžo) n inan (indeclinable)

ба́нджо (canonical)
bándžo (romanization)

Borrowed from English banjo. Doublet of банду́ра (bandúra) and мандо́ла (mandóla).


llaüt

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “lute”).


현금

Sino-Korean word from 玄 (“black”) + 琴 (“zither”); a translation of 거문고 (geomun'go) into Chinese.


đàn đáy

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ ʔɗaj˧˦]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ ʔɗaj˨˩˦]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ ʔɗa(ː)j˦˥]

Compound of đàn (“string instrument”) + đáy (“back”), perhaps because the instrument's body has an open back.

com

a Vietnamese lute with three strings, a hollow trapezoidal wooden body with an open back, and a very long neck, used in traditional Vietnamese music (particularly ca trù)


танбур

та̀нбӯр (canonical masculine)
tànbūr (romanization)
та̀нбӯр (nominative singular)
танбури (nominative plural)
танбу́ра (genitive singular)
танбура (genitive plural)
танбуру (dative singular)
танбурима (dative plural)
танбур (accusative singular)
танбуре (accusative plural)
танбуре (singular vocative)
танбури (plural vocative)
танбуру (locative singular)
танбурима (locative plural)
танбуром (instrumental singular)
танбурима (instrumental plural)
та̀мбӯр (alternative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طنبوره (tanbura), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from Persian دنب بره (dunb-i bere, “lamb's tail”).


聲學貝司

ㄕㄥ ㄒㄩㄝˊ ㄅㄟˋ ㄙ

ㄕㄥ ㄒㄩㄝˊ ㄅㄟˋ ㄙ

шэнсюэ бэйсы

/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

acoustic bass guitar
acoustic bass guitar


mandolute

Not content with flailing at the playwright and the movement that had nurtured him ("the little theater of cheesecloth and mandolutes"), De Voto attacked the Theater Guild, charging that its resources and prestige, its "power to compel the admiration of multitudes," where chiefly responsible for elevating O'Neill to "a grandeur" he did not deserve.

2002, Louis Sheaffer, O'Neill: Son and Artist, page 460:

(music) A musical instrument similar to a mandolin, but larger.


string bass

Synonym of double bass (“lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family”).


doghouse bass

(music) A double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family).


stand-up bass

Synonym of double bass (“lowest-pitched instrument of violin family”).


bass violin

(music) double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family)


三角琴

ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄙㄢ ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

саньцзяоцинь

/sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/saːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³ kʰɐm²¹/

/sän⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/saːm⁵⁵ kɔːk̚³ kʰɐm²¹/


rabeca

From Old French rebec, from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb). Doublet of arrabil and arrabel.

(music) fiddle (simple, traditional violin)

Charles Murray, Música: descubra as conexões através de perguntas e respostas, Callis Editora, page 17

The rebec that appeared around the 10th century was the first “violin” with a bow and a wooden or iron endpin that rested on the floor. The 3 strings were played with a bow. The first European “violin”, used in the Middle Ages, was small and pear-shaped - a variation of the rebab - an Arabic instrument.

A rabeca que apareceu por volta do séc. X foi o primeiro “violino” com arco e um espigão de madeira ou ferro que assentava no chão. As 3 cordas eram tocadas com um arco. O primeiro “violino” europeu, usado na Idade Média, era pequeno, em forma de pêra - uma variação do rebab - um instrumento árabe.

2010, Umberto Eco, Idade Média Bárbaros, cristãos e muçulmanos, Publicações Dom Quixote, page 846

In reality, the rebec is not a work of carpentry, but carved from a piece of wood; it is also played with a bow and has three strings.

Na realidade, a rabeca não é obra de carpintaria, mas escavada num bloco de madeira; é também tangida com arco e tem três cordas.

Tocava em uma rabeca fabricada por ele, que dava sons tão melodiosos e fortes como o melhor Stradivarius. Este instrumento, mui semelhante em forma às nossas rabecas, era cavado em uma só peça de pau, que formava a caixa e o braço, […]

2014, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Como eu Atravessei África - Primeira Parte: A Carabina d'El-Rei, Edições Vercial, page 97:

He was playing a rebec made by himself, whose sounds were as melodious and strong as those of the best Stradivarius. This instrument, very similar in shape to our own fiddles, was carved from a single piece of wood, which gave shape to the body and the neck, […]

(music, historical) rebec (an early pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed instrument)


二股弦

/ˀɤɻ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/ˀɤɻ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

erguxian (type of huqin used in the traditional music of Shanxi province in northern China, such as Jinju opera)


ទ្រសោ

km-noun

ទ្រសោ • (trɔɔ sao)

ទ្រ (trɔɔ, “Cambodian stringed fiddle”) + សោ (sao, meaning unclear).

com

kind of fiddle, tro sau (two-stringed fiddle)


六弦琴

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (六弦琴):
* → Japanese: 六弦琴(ろくげんきん) (rokugenkin)

ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄌㄧㄡˋ ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/li̯oʊ̯⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/lʊk̚² jiːn²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/liɔk̚²⁴⁻² hiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/liɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hiɛn¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hiɛn²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/

/li̯oʊ̯⁵¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/lʊk̚² jiːn²¹ kʰɐm²¹/

/liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/liɔk̚²⁴⁻² hiɛn²⁴⁻²² kʰim²⁴/

/liɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hiɛn¹³⁻²² kʰim¹³/

/liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰim²⁴/

/liɔk̚⁴⁻³² hiɛn²³⁻³³ kʰim²³/


dahu

A large bowed two-stringed chordophone of Chinese origin, a tenor part of the erhu family of instruments.


yueqin

yueqin (plural)
yueqins (plural)
yue qin (alternative)
yüeh-ch'in (alternative)

From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 月琴 (yuèqín, literally “moon(-shaped) stringed instrument; moon guitar”).

bor

(music) A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.


moon zither

Calque from Chinese 月琴 (yuèqín), "moon-shaped stringed instrument".


vi-ô-lông

[vi˧˧ ʔo˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧]

[vɪj˧˧ ʔow˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧]

[vɪj˧˧ ʔow˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧]

[jɪj˧˧ ʔow˧˧ ləwŋ͡m˧˧]


vĩ cầm

[vi˦ˀ˥ kəm˨˩]

[vɪj˧˨ kəm˦˩]

[vɪj˨˩˦ kəm˨˩]

[jɪj˨˩˦ kəm˨˩]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 尾琴, composed of 尾 (“tail”) and 琴 (“string instrument”), referring to the fact that the ribbon of the bow is traditional made from horsetail hair. In modern Vietnamese, vĩ is also the word for "bow".
Probably also a phono-semantic matching with French violon.


đàn hạc

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ haːk̚˧˨ʔ]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ haːk̚˨˩ʔ]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ haːk̚˨˩˨]


spike fiddle

(music) Any of a number of stringed instruments in which the handle passes diametrically through the resonator and which are played with a bow.


xiqin

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 奚琴 (xīqín). Doublet of haegeum.

An ancient Chinese vertical bowed string instrument with two strings.


魯特琴

ㄌㄨˇ ㄊㄜˋ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄌㄨˇ ㄊㄜˋ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/lu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/lu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

Borrowed from English lute + 琴 (qín, “stringed instrument”).


琉特琴

ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄊㄜˋ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄊㄜˋ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/li̯oʊ̯³⁵ tʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/li̯oʊ̯³⁵ tʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/


電気ギター

電気ギター (canonical)
denki gitā (romanization)

[dẽ̞ŋʲkʲi ɡʲita̠ː]

電(でん)気(き) (denki, “electricity”) + ギター (gitā, “guitar”), calque of English electric guitar.

ja-compound

エレクトリック・ギター エレクトリック・ギター#Japanese

synonym of エレクトリック・ギター (erekutorikku gitā, “electric guitar”)


ទ្រ

km-noun

ទ្រ • (trɔɔ)

Compare Thai ซอ (sɔɔ), Northern Thai ᨪᩬᩴ, Lao ຊໍ (sǭ).

កូតទ្រ

tro, a Cambodian stringed instrument similar to a fiddle (it has two strings and is played with a bow)


발랄라이카

[pa̠ɭɭa̠ɭɭa̠ikʰa̠]


dombra

From Kazakh домбыра (dombyra) via Russian домбра́ (dombrá).

A long-necked lute found in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.


kokle

kokles (plural)
kokles (alternative obsolete)

A stringed instrument from the Baltic region, especially Latvia


zhonghu

zhonghu (plural)
zhong hu (alternative)
zhong-hu (alternative)

(music) A large low-pitched lute-like string instrument (chordophone) similar to the erhu, usually with two strings and played with a bow; it is part of the huqin family of instruments originating in Chinese traditional music.


dihu

A large, bowed Chinese string instrument of the huqin family, with a large soundbox covered at one end with snakeskin.


ពិណ

From Pali vīṇā (“Indian lute, mandolin”), from Sanskrit वीणा (vīṇā, “Indian lute”). Cognate with Thai พิณ (pin), Lao ພິນ (phin).

generic name for any stringed musical instrument that is played by plucking the strings


nyckelharpa

en-noun

nyckelharpa (plural nyckelharpas or nyckelharpor)

nyckelharpas (plural)
nyckelharpor (plural)

(music) A string instrument (chordophone) with a long body and a boat-shaped soundbox, with keys attached to tangents that act like frets when the keys are depressed, and most commonly featuring chromatic and sympathetic strings in modern instruments, originating in the traditional music of Sweden.


guzheng

guzhengs (plural)
gu zheng (alternative)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 古箏 /古筝 (gǔzhēng).

Then the next moment, to an “oooh” from the seats around me, the spotlight picked out Chou playing the guzheng, a Chinese plucked zither.

2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:

A zither-like stringed instrument with at least eighteen strings and moveable bridges, played with a plectrum, originating in the traditional music of China.


bajo sexto

He sings about being spurned, drunk, rebounding and flaunting his blingy Patek Phillipe watch as Bizarrap quantizes regional Mexican acoustic sounds — the syncopated chords and trombone of a brass band, the slapping bass lines of a bajo sexto, solos on high-strung Mexican guitars — into a computerized track.

2023 June 2, Jon Pareles, Giovanni Russonello, Lindsay Zoladz, “A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs”, in The New York Times:

(music) A stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with twelve thick strings in six double-courses, with a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar.


bajo quinto

A stringed instrument of Mexican origin, with ten thick strings in five double-courses, a short neck and a deep soundboard; a type of acoustic bass guitar bajo sexto without the bass strings of a typical bajo sexto.


acoustic bass guitar

acoustic bass guitar (plural acoustic bass guitars)

A bass guitar meant to be played without electric amplification and as an accompaniment to the acoustic guitar.


Xaenorphica

From the instrument's original German name, Xänorphika.

Xaenorphica. A bow stringed instrument with a Keyboard, invented by Röllig, 1801, the sounds of which were produced by bows set in motion by a pedal.

1895, Otto Ebel, Handbook of Music, Arthur P. Schmidt, page 212

(music) A little-known stringed instrument with a keyboard, invented by Carl Leopold Röllig in 1801.


Appalachian dulcimer

Appalachian dulcimer (plural Appalachian dulcimers)

A diatonically fretted and neckless string instrument, most commonly with three or four strings; a chordophone of the zither family.


nylon-string guitar

nylon-string guitar (plural nylon-string guitars)

(music) A guitar strung with nylon strings and with a neck that joins the body at the twelfth rather than the fourteenth fret, as in a typical guitar.

classical guitar

most commonly synonymous, though there are nylon-string acoustic-electric guitars


bandola

A plucked pear-shaped stringed instrument with a small body, originating in Colombia and Venezuela.


banhu

A two-stringed bowed string instrument (chordophone) of northern Chinese origin, held vertically, possessing a soundbox usually made of coconut shell and a front surface covered with a thin layer of wood.


angle harp

A type of harp where the neck runs at an angle over the resonator.


nail violin

(music) A musical instrument consisting of a wooden soundboard with metal nails attached, tuned to produce notes when played with a bow.


agidigbo

(music) A lamellophone worn around the neck, originating among the Yoruba of Nigeria, played by striking the box frame of the instrument with a ring worn around a thumb.


kubing

(music) A type of Jew's harp, of Filipino origin, most often made of bamboo.


chillador

A fretted guitar-like stringed instrument of Peruvian origin, part of the charango family, usually with ten to fourteen strings in five courses.


Violin

Etymology tree
Italian viola
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Italian -ino
Italian violinobor.
German Violinebor.
Hunsrik Violin
Borrowed from German Violine.


dulcijo

(music) A type of three-stringed clawhammer banjo that is tuned diatonically, like a dulcimer, with a shortened third string and a drum resonator.


banjo dulcimer

Appalachian dulcimer
Appalachian dulcimer

(music) An Appalachian dulcimer that has been modified with the addition of a vibrating membrane like the body of a banjo.


baritone guitar

en-noun

baritone guitar (plural baritone guitars)

A type of large-bodied and long-necked guitar that plays in a baritone range.


Baroque guitar

An archaic form of guitar with five strings, originating in the Baroque era, played by either strumming or plucking, and characterized by the use of reentrant tuning.

guitarra barroca

archaic form of guitar from the Baroque era


trichordo

(music) A trichord (three-stringed) old-fashioned bouzouki; a type of chordophone.


jinghu

A two-stringed bamboo musical instrument played with a bow, the smallest and highest-pitched in the huqin family of traditional Chinese instruments, associated mainly with the tradition of Beijing opera.


bordonua

bordonuas (plural)
bordonúa (alternative)

A large stringed instrument of Puerto Rican origin, a low-pitched version of the guitar-like cuatro.


bowed psaltery

bowed psaltery (plural bowed psalteries)

A psaltery adapted to be played with a bow instead of with plucking, with a triangular shape and a hole (rose) in the center of the soundboard.


bowed dulcimer

A type of Appalachian dulcimer played with a bow and held upright like a cello.


bugarija

A stringed instrument of Bosnian origin, a type of lute with circular soundholes, a long neck, and usually four strings.


buzuq

(music) A mandolin-shaped lute of Arab origin, with a long neck, movable frets and two or three strings played with a plectrum.


tea chest bass

tea chest bass (plural tea chest basses)

(music) A washtub bass that uses a tea chest as the resonator for an upright stringed bass guitar.


ceterone

A large cittern distinguished by the use of wire strings, and the presence of extra bass strings.


doshpuluur

Borrowed from Tuvan дошпулуур (doşpuluur).

A long-necked plucked lute with two or three strings, of Tuvan origin, characterized by a skin head on both sides of the square wooden body.


chanzy

chanzi (alternative)
tyanzi (alternative)

A three-stringed plucked lute of Tuvan origin, like a long-necked banjo with a skin head over a heart or kidney-shaped body.


jabisen

Borrowed from Japanese 蛇皮線 (literally “snakeskin strings”).


charangon

charangons (plural)
charangón (alternative)

A type of large stringed instrument of the charango family, with a characteristically low pitch, originating in the traditional music of the Andean area.


chuniri

chuniris (plural)
chianuri (alternative)
ch’uniri (alternative)

A bowed viol-like string instrument (a spike fiddle) with three strings, originating in the folk traditions of Georgia.


cigar box guitar

en-noun

cigar box guitar (plural cigar box guitars)

cigar box guitars (plural)
cigar-box guitar (alternative)

(music) A simple guitar-like string instrument that uses a cigar box as a resonator, and traditionally has a broomstick for a neck.


yazh

yazhs (plural)
yaazh (alternative)
yal (alternative)
yaal (alternative)

(music) A fretless harp of ancient Tamil origin, with a variable number of gut strings, characterized by a boat-shaped resonator.


horsehead fiddle

horsehead fiddle (plural horsehead fiddles)

horsehead fiddles (plural)
horse-head fiddle (alternative)
horse head fiddle (alternative)

Any of several Tuvan and Mongolian traditional stringed instruments, especially the igil or the morin khuur, characterized by the head of a horse being carved into its headstock.


Hardanger fiddle

Hardanger fiddle (plural Hardanger fiddles)

Hardanger fiddles (plural)
Hardanger-fiddle (alternative)

A type of fiddle typical of Norwegian folk music, characterized by thinner wood than a standard fiddle and the use of either eight or nine strings, four to five of which are sympathetic.


contraguitar

(music, historical) An old form of guitar originating in Vienna, with a standard six-string neck and a second bass neck with up to nine strings.


guitjo

(music) A banjo-like string instrument, with fourteen strings in seven courses, tuned like a guitar and having a guitar-like neck.


cobza

From Romanian cobză, from Ukrainian ко́бза (kóbza), from Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ.
Doublet of komuz and kobza.

A lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone), with four strings in double courses, played with a plectrum, and most associated with the traditional music of Romania.


console steel guitar

console steel guitar (plural console steel guitars)

(music) A type of large electric lap steel guitar, usually with two necks and seven or eight strings.


diddley bow

diddley bows (plural)
bow diddley (alternative)
diddley-bow (alternative)
didley bow (alternative)
diddly bow (alternative)

(music) A one-stringed instrument (monochord) that consists of a wire string attached to something solid like the side of a house, and played with a piece of metal or glass, originating in the African American traditional music of Mississippi in the United States.


domra

(music) A round-bodied lute of East Slavic origin with either three or four strings.


dramyin

A traditional unfretted long-necked plucked lute used in the Himalayan region


temir komuz

temir komuzes (plural)
temir-komuz (alternative)

(music) A type of Jew's harp, of Central Asian origin.


armónico guitar

armónico guitar (plural armónico guitars)


lap steel guitar

lap steel guitar (plural lap steel guitars)

(music) A type of steel guitar held in the lap, usually with six strings and a square neck.


table steel guitar

table steel guitar (plural table steel guitars)

(music) A type of electric guitar and steel guitar where the fretboard is mounted on a table, which has no resonator body.


tenor guitar

A type of small guitar-like stringed instrument with four strings, usually with four strings and a normal guitar-shaped body, originating in American jazz music.


zhongruan

(music) A plucked long-necked lute-like string instrument (chordophone) of Chinese origin, a medium-sized tenor ruan with four strings and twenty-four frets.


waldzither

(music) A type of stringed instrument, a cittern of German origin, with nine strings in five courses.


lute guitar

lute guitars (plural)
lute-guitar (alternative)

(music) A stringed instrument that combines a normal guitar six-string layout over a lute-like bowl-shaped body, originating in German folk traditions.


mandora

(music) A type of bass string instrument.


jamisen

(obsolete) An archaic stringed instrument of Japanese origin, traditionally made from snakeskin and characteristic of the Ryukyu islands; it is the ancestor of the shamisen.


psalmodicon

psalmodicons (plural)
psalmodikon (alternative)

(music) A simple zither-like single-stringed chordophone (stringed instrument), played with a bow, of Scandinavian origin.


electric cello

A cello modified to be played either electrically or acoustically, usually possessing five strings.


electric dulcimer

electric dulcimer (plural electric dulcimers)

(music) A dulcimer that uses electronic amplification to produce sufficient sound.


electric sitar

(music) A type of electric guitar that mimics a sitar while being loud enough to be used in rock and pop music; it is characterized by an asymmetric body, the use of a large, flat bridge and sympathetic strings.


electric harp

(music) A type of harp with a solid body and electric pickups on each string, in order to amplify the instrument's sound.


four-string guitar

four-string guitar (plural four-string guitars)


kit violin

kit violins (plural)
kit-violin (alternative)

(music) A very small long-necked violin that came in a variety of shapes and configurations, meant to be carried in a pocket and intended for dancing instructors to carry to accompany their students.


dan bau

A monochord (one-stringed) zither-like stringed instrument (chordophone) of Vietnamese origin, played by plucking with a plectrum with one hand and using the other to vary the tension on the string to adjust the pitch.


dan day

A type of lute with three strings, a hollow trapezoidal wooden body with an open back, and a very long neck, originating in traditional Vietnamese music (particularly ca trù).


dan nguyet

A moon-shaped kind of lute, a plucked, fretted lute with a round body and two strings, originating in traditional Vietnamese music.


erxian

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 二弦 (èrxián).

One of several bowed string instruments in the huqin family, used in traditional Chinese music.


esraj

Sri Chinmoy is director of the United Nations meditation group. He is an author and a musician as well. Tonight at 7:30, he will work as a musician along with three or four choral groups and a number of instrumental units—he plays cello and esraj (a type of sitar) himself.

1976 May 28, “Weekender Guide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C1:

A bowed string instrument of Indian origin, with a goatskin soundboard, sympathetic strings attached to a sitar-like neck, and twenty frets.


dan nhi

A vertical bowed fiddle-like string instrument with two strings, originating in the traditional and classical music of Vietnam.


dan tranh

A small plucked zither with movable bridges and usually 16 or 17 strings, of Vietnamese origin.


dan ty ba

A plucked four-stringed chordophone with a long neck and a pear-shaped body, originating in the traditional music of Vietnam.


daruan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 大阮 (dàruǎn).

A bass lute-like four-stringed chordophone of the ruan family of Chinese traditional instruments.


division viol

division viols (plural)
division-viol (alternative)

division (florid instrumental variations of a melody) + viol (a type of viola da gamba)

(music) A type of bass viol with the ability to be tuned in a very broad range, originating in the performance of divisions in 17th century English.


gadulka

gadulkas (plural)
gudulka (alternative)
g'dulka (alternative)

Borrowed from Bulgarian гъдулка (gǎdulka).

bor+

(music) A traditional Bulgarian stringed instrument, played with a bow, and most commonly featuring three main strings and up to sixteen sympathetic strings.


gayageum

gayageum (plural)
gayageums (plural)
kayagum (alternative)
kayagŭm (alternative)

Borrowed from the Revised Romanization of Korean 가야금(伽倻琴) (gayageum).

(music) A zither-like chordophone, most often with twelve strings, originating in the traditional music of Korea.


gehu

A modern Chinese instrument that fuses the Western cello with a more traditional huqin-like design, with four strings tuned like a cello.


geomungo

geomungos (plural)
komungo (alternative)

A zither of ancient Korean origin, with frets and movable bridges, played by plucking with a stick.


ghaychak

ghaychaks (plural)
ghijak (alternative)
ghichak (alternative)

(music) Any of several lute-like stringed instruments of Asian origin.

A double-chambered bowl lute used by the Iranian and Baloch people, with three or four strings and a short neck without frets.

A spike lute used in Afghanistan and throughout Central Asia, often featuring a tin can for a soundbox.


goje

A fiddle-like stringed instrument with one or two strings, and a resonator made from a gourd or calabash, originating among the Hausa of West Africa.


цигулка

bg-noun

цигу́лка • (cigúlka) f (relational adjective цигу́лков)

цигу́лка (canonical)
cigúlka (romanization)
цигу́лков (adjective relational)
цигу́лка (indefinite singular)
цигу́лки (indefinite plural)
цигу́лката (definite singular)
цигу́лките (definite plural)


gudok

A musical instrument, a chordophone, most often neckless and with three strings, played in the lap and with a bow, of ancient Slavic origin.


和琴

Probably coined in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived components, as a compound of 和 (wa, “Japan, Japanese”) + 琴 (gon, “koto, zither”).

compound

(music) a six-stringed koto or zither used to perform kagura music, more common in ancient times


大和琴

大和琴 (canonical)
yamatogoto (romanization)

Compound of 大和 (Yamato, ancient name for Japan) + 琴 (koto, “a koto, a zither”). The koto changes to goto as an instance of rendaku (連濁).


東琴

ja-noun

東(あずま)琴(ごと) • (azumagoto) ^(←あづまごと (adumagoto)?)

東琴 (canonical)
azumagoto (romanization)
adumagoto (romanization)
あづまごと (hiragana historical)

Compound of 東 (azuma, archaic word for the east; by extension, Japan) + 琴 (koto, “a koto, a zither”). The koto changes to goto as an instance of rendaku (連濁).


zhuihu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 墜胡 /坠胡 (zhuìhú).

(music) A two-stringed chordophone (string instrument) with a fretless fingerboard, played with a bow, of Chinese origin and especially associated with Henan and Shandong.


tenor banjo

(music) A type of small banjo-like stringed instrument with a short neck, usually with 17 or 19 frets and four strings, and played with a plectrum, originating in American jazz music.


guitarrón

guitarróns (plural)
guitarron (alternative)

(music) Any of several stringed instruments of Latin American origin.


tricordia

tricordias (plural)
trichordia (alternative)
tricordio (alternative)

(music) A twelve-stringed variant on the mandolin.


kacapi

Borrowed from Sundanese kacapi (“zither”).

(music) A box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking, originating in traditional Sundanese music, especially tembang sunda and pantun sunda.


kacapi

Ultimately from Sanskrit कच्छप (kacchapa, “tortoise, kind of lute”). Compare Indonesian kecapi, Tagalog kudyapi, Maranao kotiyapi'.

der

(music) A box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking, as the main accompanying instrument of tembang sunda and pantun sunda.


box zither

A zither with a trapezoidal or rectangular shaped sound box.


arched harp

A type of harp where the string carrier and resonator are physically united, with strings at right angles to the sound table, no pillar and a neck that curves away from the resonator.


frame harp

(music) A type of harp with a front pillar, forming a triangular frame.


triangular harp

en-noun

triangular harp (plural triangular harps)


кобза

uk-noun

ко́бза • (kóbza) f inan (genitive ко́бзи, nominative plural ко́бзи, genitive plural кобз)

ко́бза (canonical)
kóbza (romanization)
ко́бзи (genitive)
ко́бзи (nominative plural)
кобз (genitive plural)
ко́бза (nominative singular)
ко́бзи (nominative plural)
ко́бзи (genitive singular)
кобз (genitive plural)
ко́бзі (dative singular)
ко́бзам (dative plural)
ко́бзу (accusative singular)
ко́бзи (accusative plural)
ко́бзою (instrumental singular)
ко́бзами (instrumental plural)
ко́бзі (locative singular)
ко́бзах (locative plural)
ко́бзо (singular vocative)
ко́бзи (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: ко́бза (kóbza)

→ English: kobza

→ Polish: kobza

→ Romanian: cobză

desc

→ Russian: ко́бза (kóbza), кобза́ (kobzá)

From Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ via a Turkic language.

(music) kobza (old Ukrainian music instrument, a kind of lute)


бандура

uk-noun

банду́ронька

банду́ра • (bandúra) f inan (genitive банду́ри, nominative plural банду́ри, genitive plural банду́р, diminutive банду́рка or банду́рочка or банду́ронька)

банду́ра (canonical)
bandúra (romanization)
банду́ри (genitive)
банду́ри (nominative plural)
банду́р (genitive plural)
банду́рка (diminutive)
банду́рочка (diminutive)
банду́ронька (diminutive)
банду́ра (nominative singular)
банду́ри (nominative plural)
банду́ри (genitive singular)
банду́р (genitive plural)
банду́рі (dative singular)
банду́рам (dative plural)
банду́ру (accusative singular)
банду́ри (accusative plural)
банду́рою (instrumental singular)
банду́рами (instrumental plural)
банду́рі (locative singular)
банду́рах (locative plural)
банду́ро (singular vocative)
банду́ри (plural vocative)

Possibly through Italian pandura and Polish pandura, from Late Latin pandura (“musical instrument with three strings”); ultimately from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra, “three-stringed lute; zither”). Doublet of ба́нджо (bándžo) and мандо́ла (mandóla).

doublet

(music) bandura (old Ukrainian music instrument)


yoke lute

(music) Any chordophone (stringed instrument) with two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.


saung

Borrowed from Burmese စောင်းကောက် (caung:kauk).

(music) An arched harp used in Burmese traditional music.


kontigi

A boat-shaped lute-like string instrument with one or two strings, originating among the Hausa people of West Africa.


bolombatto

He is performing here with his Symmetric Orchestra, an ensemble of West African musicians who play both traditional instruments (kora, balafon, bolombatto, djembe) and slightly more contemporary ones (guitars, keyboards).

2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Pop Listings”, in New York Times:

A traditional string instrument of West Africa, consisting of four strings stretched over a gourd.


romantic guitar

en-noun

romantic guitar (plural romantic guitars)

(music) An archaic kind of early guitar, from the classical and romantic eras, with six single strings and a long, fretted neck.


sanshin

Borrowed from Japanese 三線 (sanshin) or Okinawan 三線 (sanshin, literally “three strings”). Doublet of sanxian.

bor

(music) A three-stringed instrument of Okinawan origin, the precursor to the shamisen.


sanxian

Borrowed from Mandarin 三弦 (sānxián). Doublet of sanshin.

(music) A three-stringed fretless Chinese instrument.


Selmer guitar

From the surname of the French manufacturer.

(music) A kind of acoustic guitar of French origin, used in the early to mid-20th century.


sympitar

(music) A stringed instrument similar to a guitar with sympathetic strings like a sitar.


shahrud

(music) A type of short-necked lute, similar to an archlute, originating in traditional Persian music.


parlor guitar

parlor guitars (plural)
parlour guitar (alternative)

(music) A kind of small acoustic guitar, originally meant to be played (often by women) in the parlor of a Victorian-era home; more modern models are still used today, commonly in folk music.


taro-patch fiddle

en-noun

taro-patch fiddle (plural taro-patch fiddles)

taro-patch fiddles (plural)
taro patch fiddle (alternative)

(music) A five-stringed musical instrument originating in the traditional music of Hawaii.


triple contrabass viol

triple contrabass viol (plural triple contrabass viols)

(music) A stringed instrument of the viol family, a variant of the octobass distinguished by its extreme size -- at more than ten feet all, it must be performed by a person on a platform.


सितार

sitār (romanization)
ستار (Urdu)
सितार (direct singular)
सितारें (direct plural)
सितार (oblique singular)
सितारों (oblique plural)
सितार (singular vocative)
सितारो (plural vocative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas
Proto-Iranian *θráyah
Old Persian 𐏂 (ç)
Persian سه
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Persian تار
Classical Persian سِهتَار (si-tār)bor.
Hindi सितार (sitār)
Borrowed from Classical Persian سِهتَار (si-tār, literally “three strings”).


clarsach

clarsachs (plural)
clareschaw (alternative)
clerschew (alternative)
clersha (alternative)
clarishoe (alternative)
clairschach (alternative)
clairshach (alternative)
clashach (alternative)
clàrsach (alternative)
clarseach (alternative)
clearsach (alternative)

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic clàrsach (“harp”) by the 1810s, possibly from clàr (“board, plank; table”). The word is cognate with Irish cláirseach (“harp”).

And I, beside the lake of swans, / Shall hunt for thee the fallow deer; / And build thy hut and bring thee home / The wild fowl, and the honey-comb; / And berries from the wood provide, / And play my clarshech by thy side.

1810, Thomas Campbell, “O’Connor's Child, or, The Flower of Love Lies Bleeding”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. […], Baltimore, Md.: Printed for Philip H[oulbrooke] Nicklin & Co., […], stanza VIII, page 209:

[S]he sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 274:

He is particularly delighted by her skill in music, which is so exquisite, that she far exceeds the best performers in this country in playing on the clashach or harp.

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume IV (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 306:

They [the country people] preferred the sprightly springs of the fiddle when intent on the dance; or if pouring forth the sweet melody of the song, their choice accompaniment was unquestionably the clarsach (harp).

1876 July, “Gaelic Songs”, in Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, editors, The Celtic Magazine: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad, volume I, number IX, Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie, […]; Edinburgh: J. Menzies & Co., and Maclauchlan & Stewart; Glasgow: William Love, →OCLC, page 295:

After long thought, he took his clàrsach and went up through the ancient forest and out upon the desert of the great mountain which towers above all others in Emhain Abhlach. He played gently upon his clàrsach as he went, so that no wild thing molested him.

1899, Fiona Macleod [pseudonym; William Sharp], “Honey of the Wild Bees”, in The Dominion of Dreams, Westminster, London: Archibald Constable and Co., →OCLC; 5th edition, Westminster, London: Archbald Constable and Co., […], 1899, →OCLC, page 248:

The craft of making clarsachs or harps continues despite the fact that of the three principal instruments played in Scotland over the centuries the clarsach is almost certainly the oldest.

1974, Michael Brander, Scottish Crafts and Craftsmen, Edinburgh: Johnston and Bacon, →ISBN, page 66:

[T]here are two examples of the earliest clarsachs in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. The Caledonian or Lamont harp is believed to date back to 1464, and the Queen Mary harp dates back to about 1564. Mary Queen of Scots was an ardent clarsach player, as was King James I. The clarsach was popular in Scotland until the middle of the eighteenth century, when the destruction of the clan system had its concurrent effect on this instrument. It was not until the 1890s that the clarsach was heard from again.

1986, Emily Ann Donaldson, The Scottish Highland Games in America, Gretna, New Orleans, La.: Firebird Press, Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197:

A small triangular wire-strung harp of Gaelic origin.


banjô

banjôs (plural)
banjoau (plural)
banjô
fanjô (soft)
manjô
banjo (alternative)


秦琵琶

ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄆㄧˊ ㄆㄚˊ

ㄑㄧㄣˊ ㄆㄧˊ ㄆㄚˊ

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ pʰi³⁵ pʰä³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰin³⁵ pʰi³⁵ pʰä³⁵/


виола

viola (romanization)
виола (nominative singular)
виоли (nominative plural)
виоли (genitive singular)
виолох (genitive plural)
виоли (dative singular)
виолом (dative plural)
виолу (accusative singular)
виоли (accusative plural)
виолу (instrumental singular)
виолами (instrumental plural)
виоли (locative singular)
виолох (locative plural)
виоло (singular vocative)
виоли (plural vocative)

Internationalism, ultimately from Italian viola.


तानपूरा

hi-noun

तानपूरा • (tānpūrā) m (Urdu spelling تنپورا)

tānpūrā (romanization)
تنپورا (Urdu)
तानपूरा (direct singular)
तानपूरे (direct plural)
तानपूरे (oblique singular)
तानपूरों (oblique plural)
तानपूरे (singular vocative)
तानपूरो (plural vocative)

[t̪ä̃ːn.puː.ɾäː]

Ultimately from Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). However, the word was assimilated in an "Indianized" manner and was reanalyzed as तान (tān) + पूरा (pūrā). Compare Marathi तंबोरा (tamborā).

compound

तान (tān) + पूरा (pūrā)


絃鳴樂器

ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄩㄝˋ ㄑㄧˋ

ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄩㄝˋ ㄑㄧˋ

сяньмин юэци

/ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ miŋ³⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ miŋ³⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/


胡西它爾

ㄏㄨˊ ㄒㄧ ㄊㄚ ㄦˇ

ㄏㄨˊ ㄒㄧ ㄊㄚ ㄦˇ

/xu³⁵ ɕi⁵⁵ tʰä⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/xu³⁵ ɕi⁵⁵ tʰä⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

khushtar (a bowed stringed Uyghur musical instrument)


वीणा

hi-noun

वीणा • (vīṇā) f

vīṇā (romanization)
वीणा (direct singular)
वीणाएँ (direct plural)
वीणा (oblique singular)
वीणाओं (oblique plural)
वीणा (singular vocative)
वीणाओ (plural vocative)


日本箏

/ʐ̩⁵¹ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/jɐt̚² puːn³⁵ t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/

/ʐ̩⁵¹ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/

/jɐt̚² puːn³⁵ t͡sɐŋ⁵⁵/


エレクトリック・ギター

[e̞ɾe̞kɯ̟̊to̞ɾʲik̚kɯ̟ ɡʲita̠ː]

ja:エレクトリック・ギター


エレキギター

Perhaps from a modified short form of エレクトリック・ギター (erekutorikku gitā). Compare エレキテル (erekiteru). Also compare ケーキ (kēki, “cake”), デッキ (dekki, “dekki”), プロキシ (purokishi, “proxy”) for the use of キ (ki) instead of the typical ク (ku) to transcribe the foreign sound /k/.

エレクトリック・ギター エレクトリック・ギター#Japanese

synonym of エレクトリック・ギター (“electric guitar”)


胡兀兒

/xu³⁵ u⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵/

/xu³⁵ u⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵/

From Mongolian ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (quɣur) / хуур (xuur, “stringed instrument”).

Alternative name for 馬頭琴／马头琴 (mǎtóuqín).


五絃琵琶

ㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄆㄧˊ ㄆㄚˊ

ㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄆㄧˊ ㄆㄚˊ

ㄨˇ ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄆㄧˊ ˙ㄆㄚ

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ pʰi³⁵ pʰä³⁵/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ pʰi³⁵ pʰä³/

/ŋ̍¹³ jiːn²¹ pʰei̯²¹ pʰaː²¹/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ pʰi³⁵ pʰä³⁵/

/u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ pʰi³⁵ pʰä³/

/ŋ̍¹³ jiːn²¹ pʰei̯²¹ pʰaː²¹/

an obsolete form of pipa with five strings, which is believed to have come to China from non-Han regions to China's north


zeze

A stringed instrument of sub-Saharan Africa.


гусла

bg-noun

гу́сла • (gúsla) f

гу́сла (canonical)
gúsla (romanization)
гу́сла (indefinite singular)
гу́сли (indefinite plural)
гу́слата (definite singular)
гу́слите (definite plural)
гъ́сла (alternative)
гъ́сленик (alternative)

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic гѫсли (gǫsli), from Proto-Slavic *gǫsli. Old Church Slavonic ѫ (ǫ) regularly gives Bulgarian ъ (ǎ), so it is believed that the form with у (u) originates from western lects.
See the Proto-Slavic reconstruction for cognates in other languages.

inh+

gusle, a single-stringed wooden musical instrument popular in Balkan folk music


སྒྲ་སྙན

→ English: dramyin

→ Chinese: 扎木聶 (zhāmùniè)

/ʈ͡ʂam˩˨.ȵɛ̃˥˥/


པི་ཝང

From an uncertain source, perhaps Khotanese, with the same origin as the independently borrowed Chinese 琵琶 (pípá).


面板

/mi̯ɛn⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mi̯ɛn⁵¹ pɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mi̯ɛn⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mi̯ɛn⁵¹ pɑɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


biyola

ᜊᜒᜌᜓᜎ (Baybayin)
biola (alternative dated)
byola (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish viola (“viola”), from Italian viola, from Old Occitan viola (modern Occitan viula), from Medieval Latin *vitula (“stringed instrument”).


biyola

Borrowed from Spanish vuela with metathesis, second-person singular imperative of volar (“to fly”), from Latin volāre.

game of jumping over recumbent backs (among children)


齊特琴

ㄑㄧˊ ㄊㄜˋ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

ㄑㄧˊ ㄊㄜˋ ㄑㄧㄣˊ

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ tʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

/t͡ɕʰi³⁵ tʰɤ⁵¹ t͡ɕʰin³⁵/

Borrowed from German Zither + 琴 (qín, “(Chinese) zither”).


دۇتتار

ug-noun

دۇتتار • (duttar) (plural دۇتتارلار (duttarlar))

duttar (romanization)
دۇتتارلار (plural)
دۇتار (alternative)

Chinese: 都塔爾 /都塔尔 (dūtǎ'ěr)

(music) dutar, a kind of 2-stringed lute


تەمبۈر

تەمبۈر • (tembür) (plural تەمبۈرلەر (tembürler))

tembür (romanization)
تەمبۈرلەر (plural)

zh-l

彈撥爾／弹拨尔 (tánbō'ěr)

→ Chinese: 彈撥爾／弹拨尔 (tánbō'ěr)


烏克麗麗

ㄨ ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄧˋ ㄌㄧˋ

ㄨ ㄎㄜˋ ㄌㄧˋ ㄌㄧˋ

/u⁵⁵ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/

/wuː⁵⁵ hɐk̚⁵ lɐi̯²² lɐi̯²²/

/u⁵⁵ kʰɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/

/wuː⁵⁵ hɐk̚⁵ lɐi̯²² lɐi̯²²/


viola pomposa

(music) An 18th-century five-stringed form of viola


sambuque

Borrowed from Latin sambūca, from Ancient Greek σαμβύκη (sambúkē), ultimately from Aramaic סַבְּכָא (sabbəḵā).


phím

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 品 (“fret”, SV: phẩm). Doublet of phẩm.
For some examples of ‹i› in vernacular loans versus ‹â› in standard Sino-Vietnamese, see also tim, kịp, kín, nhịn.

der

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

vi-etym-sino

(by extension, music, of a keyboard instrument) key

Để gặp điện thoại viên, vui lòng bấm phím 1.

To forward to an operator, please press 1.

(by extension, telephony, computer hardware) key


topshur

Borrowing from Russian топшу́р (topšúr), from Southern Altai топшуур (topšuur).

Favorite instruments of the Mongolians of Xinjiang are the matouqin, the sihu, the sanxian or three-stringed lute and the topshur.

1989, Ping Cheng, Xinjiang: The Land and the People, page 127:

In these services, traditional instruments like the komus (mouth harp) and topshur (a two-stringed instrument), as well as well-established throat singing techniques, are often used.

2009, L. Broz, “Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai.”, in Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union:

(music) A plucked two-string lute traditionally used by the Altai people.


tumbi

A traditional North Indian musical instrument from Punjab with a single string.


راۋاپ

ug-noun

راۋاپ • (rawap) (plural راۋاپلار (rawaplar))

desc

Chinese: 熱瓦普 /热瓦普 (rèwǎpǔ), 熱瓦甫 /热瓦甫 (rèwǎfǔ)

Probably from Persian رباب (robâb), originally deriving from Arabic رَبَابَة (rabāba)

(music) rawap, a fretless plucked long-necked lute used in Uyghur traditional music


ساتار

ug-noun

ساتار • (satar) (plural ساتارلار (satarlar))

desc

Chinese: 薩塔爾 /萨塔尔 (sàtǎ'ěr), 薩它爾 /萨它尔 (sàtā'ěr)

(music) satar, a bowed long-necked lute used as a traditional instrument by the Uyghur people of Xinjiang


غېجەك

ug-noun

غېجەك • (ghëjek) (plural غېجەكلەر (ghëjekler))

Chinese: 艾捷克 (àijiékè), 吉孜哈克 (jízīhākè)

(music) ghejek (traditional bowed string instrument of Uyghur music)


glee-beam

glee-beams (plural)
gleebeam (alternative)

Calque of Old English glēobēam (“harp”, literally “joy-wood”), equivalent to glee + beam.

calque

"[…] So we do him service gladly, thronging round our noble king,
While the glee-beams at the banquet with the Scêfing's praises ring."

1895, Mary Louisa Georgina Petrie Carus-Wilson, Tokiwa and Other Poems, page 120:

The king's scop or earl's gleeman, was the favourite of the court; the one indispensable guest at every banquet and every courtly gathering; whose skill with the glee-beam or harp spread joy throughout the festive hall, and whose memory was stored with soul-stirring tales of great deeds, the recital of which could not fail to fire the hearts and quicken the pulses of young and old alike.

1896, Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen, The Epic of the Fall of Man:

That man may sing and declare many things. A marvel of wisdom is hidden in his heart. Another with his fingers may loudly strike the harp, stir the glee-beam for the joy of his companions.

1919, The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly, volume 4, page 166:

“Then there will we abide. Long have we wayfared, and wearied am I by the journey. Though the priests may not hearken to song, or story, or glee-beam, yet will they shelter us for the night.”

1923, Lucy Foster Madison, A Maid at King Alfred's Court:

(Anglo-Saxon, historical, kenning, music) A harp.

Anglo-Saxon; kenning; Anglo-Saxon; kenning


đàn tranh

[ʔɗaːn˨˩ t͡ɕajŋ̟˧˧]

[ʔɗaːŋ˦˩ ʈɛɲ˧˧]

[ʔɗaːŋ˨˩ ʈan˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 彈 (“to play a stringed musical instrument”) and 箏 (“zither”).

vi-etym-sino

small plucked zither with movable bridges, usually made with 16 or 17 strings


contrabaix

ca-noun

contrabaix m or f by sense (plural contrabaixos)

[ˌkɔn.tɾəˈβaʃ]


rabel

Daré mi rabel de boj, / que vale más que una troj, / porque yo le estimo en más.

1619, Lope de Vega, Fuente Ovejuna, Madrid, lines 286–289:

I will give my boxwood rebec, / which is worth more than a granary, / because I love him more.


វីយោឡុង

viiyoulong (romanization)
វីយ៉ូឡុង (alternative)


saroh

(music, obsolete) An Indian musical instrument with three metal strings, played with a bow.


거문고

First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 거믄〮고〮 (Yale: kèmún-kwó).

ko-etym-native

황진이는 시조와 거문고 작품으로도 유명하다.

Hwangjini-neun sijo-wa geomun'go jakpum-euro-do yumyeonghada.

Hwang Jini is renowned for her sijo and geomungo works.

Korean paulownia
wikispecies:Paulownia coreana

(music) geomungo (a Korean stringed instrument, made of wood from the Korean paulownia, with six strings which are plucked or flicked to make music)