大廣弦

ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄤˇ ㄒㄧㄢˊ

/tä⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/taːi̯²² kʷɔːŋ³⁵ jiːn²¹/

/taːi̯²² kʷɔːŋ³⁵ jyːn²¹/

/tua²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn²⁴/

/tua⁴¹⁻²² kɔŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiɛn²⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn¹³/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ kɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn²⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn²³/

/tä⁵¹ ku̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɛn³⁵/

/taːi̯²² kʷɔːŋ³⁵ jiːn²¹/

/taːi̯²² kʷɔːŋ³⁵ jyːn²¹/

/tua²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn²⁴/

/tua⁴¹⁻²² kɔŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hiɛn²⁴/

/tua²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn¹³/

/tua³³⁻¹¹ kɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn²⁴/

/tua³³⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hiɛn²³/

(music) a two-stringed vertical fiddle used primarily in Min Nan regions and by the Hakka, in Taiwan and Fujian


啞篳篥

/jä²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/

/jä²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ li⁵¹/

yabili (a double reed wind instrument used in the Song dynasty)


serpentão

[seɾ.pẽˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[seχ.pẽˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[seɻ.pẽˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

/sɨɾ.pẽˈtɐ̃w̃/

(music) serpent (old bass wind instrument)


朝爾

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʈ͡ʂʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠴᠤᠭᠤᠷ (čuɣur) / цуур (cuur, “fife”).

(music) a type of Mongolian string instrument


鐺子

/tɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/

/tɑŋ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/

a small, round, flat, tuned gong suspended by being tied with silk string in a round metal frame that is mounted on a thin wooden handle


скрыпка

be-noun

скры́пка • (skrýpka) f inan (genitive скры́пкі, nominative plural скры́пкі, genitive plural скры́пак)

скры́пка (canonical)
skrýpka (romanization)
скры́пкі (genitive)
скры́пкі (nominative plural)
скры́пак (genitive plural)
скры́пка (nominative singular)
скры́пкі (nominative plural)
скры́пкі (genitive singular)
скры́пак (genitive plural)
скры́пцы (dative singular)
скры́пкам (dative plural)
скры́пку (accusative singular)
скры́пкі (accusative plural)
скры́пкай (instrumental singular)
скры́пкаю (instrumental singular)
скры́пкамі (instrumental plural)
скры́пцы (locative singular)
скры́пках (locative plural)
скры́пкі (count-form plural)

From скры́паць or скрыпе́ць + -ка (-ka). Cognate with Russian and Ukrainian скри́пка (skrýpka).

af

скры́паць or скрыпе́ць

скры́паць or скрыпе́ць + -ка (-ka)

cog

Дзяўчына грае на скрыпцы.


大號

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ xɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ xaʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ xɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ xaʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/


吊規仔

/ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

a type of huqin used by Hokkien and Hakka folk musicians in Taiwan


yunluo

Borrowed from Mandarin 雲鑼 /云锣 (yúnluó, literally “cloud gongs”).

bor+

There are two kinds of yunluo music popular among the people, one is "parade music" played on the streets and during temple fairs; the other is "chamber music" played inside houses. Usually, two sets of yunluos are used in playing […]

In ensembles, a set of tuned gongs called yunluo (literally “cloud gong”) may be heard; these are small gongs several inches in diameter, and ten yunluo are hung on a single wooden rack.

2010, Robert André LaFleur, China, →ISBN, page 292:

A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of a set of tuned flat gongs in a frame, which are played with a stick; (sometimes) an individual gong, as a part of this instrument.


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)


کوس

→ Arabic: كُوس (kūs)

desctree

→ Middle Armenian: գոս (gos), քօզ (kʻōz)
→ Armenian: գոս (gos)

→ Ottoman Turkish: كوس (küs)
Turkish: kös

Cognate with Sogdian [script needed] (kws, “drum”), Khotanese kūsa- (“vessel; drum”), etc.

fa:کوس_(ساز)

Kus, a large ancient Persian drum akin to a timpani.


کوس

fa:کوس_(ساز)

(vulgar, slang) Alternative form of کس (kos)


کوس

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Κῶς (Kôs).

fa:کوس_(ساز)

جزیره کوس

Kos or Cos (Greek island of the Dodecanese)


գոս

gos (romanization)
գոս (nominative singular)
գոսեր (nominative plural)
գոսի (dative singular)
գոսերի (dative plural)
գոսից (ablative singular)
գոսերից (ablative plural)
գոսով (instrumental singular)
գոսերով (instrumental plural)
գոսում (locative singular)
գոսերում (locative plural)
գոսը (definite nominative singular)
գոսն (definite nominative singular)
գոսերը (definite nominative plural)
գոսերն (definite nominative plural)
գոսին (dative definite singular)
գոսերին (dative definite plural)
գոսս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
գոսերս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
գոսիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
գոսերիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
գոսիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
գոսերիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
գոսովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
գոսերովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
գոսումս (first-person locative possessive singular)
գոսերումս (first-person locative plural possessive)
գոսդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
գոսերդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
գոսիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
գոսերիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
գոսիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
գոսերիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
գոսովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
գոսերովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)
գոսումդ (locative possessive second-person singular)
գոսերումդ (locative plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

գոսերը/գոսերն

Learned borrowing from Middle Armenian գոս (gos), from Persian کوس (kôs). Eastern Armenian [ɡɔs] is a spelling pronunciation.


գոս

gos (romanization)
գոսեր (nominative plural)

→ Armenian: գոս (gos)

From Persian کوس (kôs).
Not connected with գուսան (gusan), despite Bailey 1934. It should be borne in mind that Middle Armenian գ (g) represents here /kʰ/.

Փողս եւ գոսերս գոչէին, իբրեւ յամպոցն որոտային […]
Pʻoġs ew gosers gočʻēin, ibrew yampocʻn orotayin[…]

1145, Nersēs Šnorhali, Ołb Edesioy [Elegy on the Fall of Edessa]

Translation by Theo van Lint
They blew the trumpet and struck the kettle-drum, they thundered like the clouds […]

hy:Մարտիրոս Մինասյան


trąba

trąba (nominative singular)
trąby (nominative plural)
trąby (genitive singular)
trąb (genitive plural)
trąbie (dative singular)
trąbom (dative plural)
trąbę (accusative singular)
trąby (accusative plural)
trąbą (instrumental singular)
trąbami (instrumental plural)
trąbie (locative singular)
trąbach (locative plural)
trąbo (singular vocative)
trąby (plural vocative)

(meteorology) tornado, twister (violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground)


agogô

agogo bell (percussion instrument consisting of two or three small conical bells)


kannõl'

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kannõl' (genitive kandlõ, partitive kannõld)

kandlõ (genitive)
kannõld (partitive)
kannõl' (nominative singular)
kandlõq (nominative plural)
kandlõ (accusative singular)
kandlõq (accusative plural)
kandlõ (genitive singular)
kandlidõ (genitive plural)
kannõldõ (genitive plural)
kannõld (partitive singular)
kandlit (partitive plural)
kandlõhe (illative singular)
kandlihe (illative plural)
kannõldõhe (illative plural)
kandlõn (inessive singular)
kandlõhn (inessive singular)
kandlin (inessive plural)
kannõldõn (inessive plural)
kandlihn (inessive plural)
kannõldõhn (inessive plural)
kandlõst (elative singular)
kandlist (elative plural)
kannõldõst (elative plural)
kandlõlõ (allative singular)
kandlilõ (allative plural)
kannõldõlõ (allative plural)
kandlõl (adessive singular)
kandlil (adessive plural)
kannõldõl (adessive plural)
kandlõlt (ablative singular)
kandlilt (ablative plural)
kannõldõlt (ablative plural)
kandlõs (singular translative)
kandlis (plural translative)
kannõldõs (plural translative)
kandlõniq (singular terminative)
kandliniq (plural terminative)
kannõldõniq (plural terminative)
kandlõldaq (abessive singular)
kandlildaq (abessive plural)
kannõldõldaq (abessive plural)
kandlõgaq (comitative singular)
kandlidõgaq (comitative plural)
kannõldõgaq (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kandël. Related to Estonian kannel, Finnish kantele/kannel.


弦樂器

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (弦樂器):
* → Japanese: 弦楽器(げんがっき) (gengakki)

ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄩㄝˋ ㄑㄧˋ

/ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/jiːn²¹ ŋɔːk̚² hei̯³³/

/jyːn²¹ ŋɔːk̚² hei̯³³/

/ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/

/jiːn²¹ ŋɔːk̚² hei̯³³/

/jyːn²¹ ŋɔːk̚² hei̯³³/

stringed instrument (type of musical instrument)


darabuca

(music) darbouka; tombak (a type of goblet drum)


발랄라이카

[pa̠ɭɭa̠ɭɭa̠ikʰa̠]


ဒုံမင်း

Borrowed from Sanskrit धमनि (dhamáni, “pipe, tube”).

(obsolete, music) A kind of wind instrument.

(music) A zither-like stringed instrument.


apollonicon

Formed from Apollonic, like harmonicon from harmonic.

(music) A particular type of barrel organ that also had a keyboard.


tenor saxophone

en-noun

tenor saxophone (plural tenor saxophones)

A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the baritone saxophone but larger than the alto saxophone, with a range of A♭₂ to E₅ or similar.


klavier

From Dutch klavier, from Middle Dutch klavier, from Middle French clavier.


klavier

nl-noun

klavier n (plural klavieren, diminutive klaviertje n)

klavieren (plural)
klaviertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: klavier

→ Papiamentu: klavier (dated)

From Middle Dutch klavier, from Middle French clavier.

(music) keyboard (set of keys to operate a musical instrument)


dombra

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

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


dundun

→ English: dun dun

(music) dun dun drum; a type of talking drum (pitch-bending drum that mimics the tonal speech of Yorùbá)

(music) the talking drum family of drums, one of the 4 families of drums among the Yoruba.


sounding stone

A Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped, made of stone or jade, hung and struck as a xylophone.


przystawka

przystawka (nominative singular)
przystawki (nominative plural)
przystawki (genitive singular)
przystawek (genitive plural)
przystawce (dative singular)
przystawkom (dative plural)
przystawkę (accusative singular)
przystawki (accusative plural)
przystawką (instrumental singular)
przystawkami (instrumental plural)
przystawce (locative singular)
przystawkach (locative plural)
przystawko (singular vocative)
przystawki (plural vocative)

(informal) pickup, device that converts the vibration of strings to electric signals


lithophone

Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.

1970, Musical instruments: handbook to the Museum's collection, Horniman Museum, →OCLC, page 25:

A third line of evidence—the production of sound using the natural rock as lithophones—is, like the two just discussed, geographically widespread, covering all continents except perhaps Antarctica.

2018, Bruno David, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art:

Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.


orutu

A one-stringed African fiddle, played especially by the Luo people.


taldrik

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taldrik (genitive taldriku, partitive taldrikut)

taldriku (genitive)
taldrikut (partitive)
taldrik (nominative singular)
taldrikud (nominative plural)
taldrik (accusative nominative singular)
taldrikud (accusative nominative plural)
taldriku (accusative genitive singular)
taldrikud (accusative genitive plural)
taldriku (genitive singular)
taldrikute (genitive plural)
taldrikut (partitive singular)
taldrikuid (partitive plural)
taldrikusse (illative singular)
taldrikutesse (illative plural)
taldrikuisse (illative plural)
taldrikus (inessive singular)
taldrikutes (inessive plural)
taldrikuis (inessive plural)
taldrikust (elative singular)
taldrikutest (elative plural)
taldrikuist (elative plural)
taldrikule (allative singular)
taldrikutele (allative plural)
taldrikuile (allative plural)
taldrikul (adessive singular)
taldrikutel (adessive plural)
taldrikuil (adessive plural)
taldrikult (ablative singular)
taldrikutelt (ablative plural)
taldrikuilt (ablative plural)
taldrikuks (singular translative)
taldrikuteks (plural translative)
taldrikuiks (plural translative)
taldrikuni (singular terminative)
taldrikuteni (plural terminative)
taldrikuna (essive singular)
taldrikutena (essive plural)
taldrikuta (abessive singular)
taldrikuteta (abessive plural)
taldrikuga (comitative singular)
taldrikutega (comitative plural)

Most likely from Swedish tallrik, possibly from Middle Low German tallôr(e)ken, diminutive of tallôr (“plate”). First attested in 1637 as Tallrick, the epenthetic -d- was inserted in the late 18th century.

(technical, also figurative) plate, disk, disc


fémháromszög

fémháromszögek (plural)
fémháromszög (nominative singular)
fémháromszögek (nominative plural)
fémháromszöget (accusative singular)
fémháromszögeket (accusative plural)
fémháromszögnek (dative singular)
fémháromszögeknek (dative plural)
fémháromszöggel (instrumental singular)
fémháromszögekkel (instrumental plural)
fémháromszögért (causal-final singular)
fémháromszögekért (causal-final plural)
fémháromszöggé (singular translative)
fémháromszögekké (plural translative)
fémháromszögig (singular terminative)
fémháromszögekig (plural terminative)
fémháromszögként (essive-formal singular)
fémháromszögekként (essive-formal plural)
fémháromszögben (inessive singular)
fémháromszögekben (inessive plural)
fémháromszögön (singular superessive)
fémháromszögeken (plural superessive)
fémháromszögnél (adessive singular)
fémháromszögeknél (adessive plural)
fémháromszögbe (illative singular)
fémháromszögekbe (illative plural)
fémháromszögre (singular sublative)
fémháromszögekre (plural sublative)
fémháromszöghöz (allative singular)
fémháromszögekhez (allative plural)
fémháromszögből (elative singular)
fémháromszögekből (elative plural)
fémháromszögről (delative singular)
fémháromszögekről (delative plural)
fémháromszögtől (ablative singular)
fémháromszögektől (ablative plural)
fémháromszögé (singular)
fémháromszögeké (plural)
fémháromszögéi (singular)
fémháromszögekéi (plural)
fémháromszögem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
fémháromszögeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
fémháromszöged (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
fémháromszögeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
fémháromszöge (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
fémháromszögei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
fémháromszögünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
fémháromszögeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
fémháromszögetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
fémháromszögeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
fémháromszögük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
fémháromszögeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(music) triangle (percussion instrument)


clapstick

A kind of drumstick used by striking one against another, to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants.


cảnh

(music) A traditional Vietnamese cymbal found in chầu văn that is placed on the floor and struck with wooden beaters.


aulo

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós).


колок

ru-noun+

коло́к • (kolók) m inan (genitive колка́, nominative plural колки́, genitive plural колко́в)

коло́к (canonical)
kolók (romanization)
колка́ (genitive)
колки́ (nominative plural)
колко́в (genitive plural)
коло́к (nominative singular)
колки́ (nominative plural)
колка́ (genitive singular)
колко́в (genitive plural)
колку́ (dative singular)
колка́м (dative plural)
коло́к (accusative singular)
колки́ (accusative plural)
колко́м (instrumental singular)
колка́ми (instrumental plural)
колке́ (prepositional singular)
колка́х (plural prepositional)

(music) tuner, machine head (of a string instrument)


corneto

(music) cornett (a European trumpet-like instrument)


aip

traditional hour-glass shaped Pohnpeian drum


telharmonium

(historical) An early electric musical instrument for producing music at a distant point or points by means of alternating current. An operator plays a keyboard, and the music is reproduced remotely by a receiving instrument resembling a telephone, but not held to the ear.


銅板

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ paːn³⁵/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ pæ̃⁵³/

/tɔŋ¹³⁻²² pan⁵³/

/tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² pan⁵³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² pan⁵⁵⁴/

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ paːn³⁵/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ pæ̃⁵³/

/tɔŋ¹³⁻²² pan⁵³/

/tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² pan⁵³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² pan⁵⁵⁴/

(music) pair of semicircular copperplates used to beat time in dagu, kuaiban, etc.


bungas

bungas (nominative plural)
bungu (genitive plural)
bungām (dative plural)
bungas (accusative plural)
bungām (instrumental plural)
bungās (locative plural)
bungas (plural vocative)


klavieres

klavieres (nominative plural)
klavieru (genitive plural)
klavierēm (dative plural)
klavieres (accusative plural)
klavierēm (instrumental plural)
klavierēs (locative plural)
klavieres (plural vocative)


stradivarius

stradivarius (nominative singular)
stradivariukset (nominative plural)
stradivarius (accusative nominative singular)
stradivariukset (accusative nominative plural)
stradivariuksen (accusative genitive singular)
stradivariukset (accusative genitive plural)
stradivariuksen (genitive singular)
stradivariusten (genitive plural)
stradivariuksien (genitive plural)
stradivariusta (partitive singular)
stradivariuksia (partitive plural)
stradivariuksessa (inessive singular)
stradivariuksissa (inessive plural)
stradivariuksesta (elative singular)
stradivariuksista (elative plural)
stradivariukseen (illative singular)
stradivariuksiin (illative plural)
stradivariuksella (adessive singular)
stradivariuksilla (adessive plural)
stradivariukselta (ablative singular)
stradivariuksilta (ablative plural)
stradivariukselle (allative singular)
stradivariuksille (allative plural)
stradivariuksena (essive singular)
stradivariuksina (essive plural)
stradivariukseksi (singular translative)
stradivariuksiksi (plural translative)
stradivariuksetta (abessive singular)
stradivariuksitta (abessive plural)
stradivariuksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
stradivariukseni (nominative singular)
stradivariukseni (nominative plural)
stradivariukseni (accusative nominative singular)
stradivariukseni (accusative nominative plural)
stradivariukseni (accusative genitive singular)
stradivariukseni (accusative genitive plural)
stradivariukseni (genitive singular)
stradivariusteni (genitive plural)
stradivariuksieni (genitive plural)
stradivariustani (partitive singular)
stradivariuksiani (partitive plural)
stradivariuksessani (inessive singular)
stradivariuksissani (inessive plural)
stradivariuksestani (elative singular)
stradivariuksistani (elative plural)
stradivariukseeni (illative singular)
stradivariuksiini (illative plural)
stradivariuksellani (adessive singular)
stradivariuksillani (adessive plural)
stradivariukseltani (ablative singular)
stradivariuksiltani (ablative plural)
stradivariukselleni (allative singular)
stradivariuksilleni (allative plural)
stradivariuksenani (essive singular)
stradivariuksinani (essive plural)
stradivariuksekseni (singular translative)
stradivariuksikseni (plural translative)
stradivariuksettani (abessive singular)
stradivariuksittani (abessive plural)
stradivariuksineni (comitative plural)
stradivariuksesi (nominative singular)
stradivariuksesi (nominative plural)
stradivariuksesi (accusative nominative singular)
stradivariuksesi (accusative nominative plural)
stradivariuksesi (accusative genitive singular)
stradivariuksesi (accusative genitive plural)
stradivariuksesi (genitive singular)
stradivariustesi (genitive plural)
stradivariuksiesi (genitive plural)
stradivariustasi (partitive singular)
stradivariuksiasi (partitive plural)
stradivariuksessasi (inessive singular)
stradivariuksissasi (inessive plural)
stradivariuksestasi (elative singular)
stradivariuksistasi (elative plural)
stradivariukseesi (illative singular)
stradivariuksiisi (illative plural)
stradivariuksellasi (adessive singular)
stradivariuksillasi (adessive plural)
stradivariukseltasi (ablative singular)
stradivariuksiltasi (ablative plural)
stradivariuksellesi (allative singular)
stradivariuksillesi (allative plural)
stradivariuksenasi (essive singular)
stradivariuksinasi (essive plural)
stradivariukseksesi (singular translative)
stradivariuksiksesi (plural translative)
stradivariuksettasi (abessive singular)
stradivariuksittasi (abessive plural)
stradivariuksinesi (comitative plural)
stradivariuksemme (nominative singular)
stradivariuksemme (nominative plural)
stradivariuksemme (accusative nominative singular)
stradivariuksemme (accusative nominative plural)
stradivariuksemme (accusative genitive singular)
stradivariuksemme (accusative genitive plural)
stradivariuksemme (genitive singular)
stradivariustemme (genitive plural)
stradivariuksiemme (genitive plural)
stradivariustamme (partitive singular)
stradivariuksiamme (partitive plural)
stradivariuksessamme (inessive singular)
stradivariuksissamme (inessive plural)
stradivariuksestamme (elative singular)
stradivariuksistamme (elative plural)
stradivariukseemme (illative singular)
stradivariuksiimme (illative plural)
stradivariuksellamme (adessive singular)
stradivariuksillamme (adessive plural)
stradivariukseltamme (ablative singular)
stradivariuksiltamme (ablative plural)
stradivariuksellemme (allative singular)
stradivariuksillemme (allative plural)
stradivariuksenamme (essive singular)
stradivariuksinamme (essive plural)
stradivariukseksemme (singular translative)
stradivariuksiksemme (plural translative)
stradivariuksettamme (abessive singular)
stradivariuksittamme (abessive plural)
stradivariuksinemme (comitative plural)
stradivariuksenne (nominative singular)
stradivariuksenne (nominative plural)
stradivariuksenne (accusative nominative singular)
stradivariuksenne (accusative nominative plural)
stradivariuksenne (accusative genitive singular)
stradivariuksenne (accusative genitive plural)
stradivariuksenne (genitive singular)
stradivariustenne (genitive plural)
stradivariuksienne (genitive plural)
stradivariustanne (partitive singular)
stradivariuksianne (partitive plural)
stradivariuksessanne (inessive singular)
stradivariuksissanne (inessive plural)
stradivariuksestanne (elative singular)
stradivariuksistanne (elative plural)
stradivariukseenne (illative singular)
stradivariuksiinne (illative plural)
stradivariuksellanne (adessive singular)
stradivariuksillanne (adessive plural)
stradivariukseltanne (ablative singular)
stradivariuksiltanne (ablative plural)
stradivariuksellenne (allative singular)
stradivariuksillenne (allative plural)
stradivariuksenanne (essive singular)
stradivariuksinanne (essive plural)
stradivariukseksenne (singular translative)
stradivariuksiksenne (plural translative)
stradivariuksettanne (abessive singular)
stradivariuksittanne (abessive plural)
stradivariuksinenne (comitative plural)
stradivariuksensa (nominative singular)
stradivariuksensa (nominative plural)
stradivariuksensa (accusative nominative singular)
stradivariuksensa (accusative nominative plural)
stradivariuksensa (accusative genitive singular)
stradivariuksensa (accusative genitive plural)
stradivariuksensa (genitive singular)
stradivariustensa (genitive plural)
stradivariuksiensa (genitive plural)
stradivariustaan (partitive singular)
stradivariustansa (partitive singular)
stradivariuksiaan (partitive plural)
stradivariuksiansa (partitive plural)
stradivariuksessaan (inessive singular)
stradivariuksessansa (inessive singular)
stradivariuksissaan (inessive plural)
stradivariuksissansa (inessive plural)
stradivariuksestaan (elative singular)
stradivariuksestansa (elative singular)
stradivariuksistaan (elative plural)
stradivariuksistansa (elative plural)
stradivariukseensa (illative singular)
stradivariuksiinsa (illative plural)
stradivariuksellaan (adessive singular)
stradivariuksellansa (adessive singular)
stradivariuksillaan (adessive plural)
stradivariuksillansa (adessive plural)
stradivariukseltaan (ablative singular)
stradivariukseltansa (ablative singular)
stradivariuksiltaan (ablative plural)
stradivariuksiltansa (ablative plural)
stradivariukselleen (allative singular)
stradivariuksellensa (allative singular)
stradivariuksilleen (allative plural)
stradivariuksillensa (allative plural)
stradivariuksenaan (essive singular)
stradivariuksenansa (essive singular)
stradivariuksinaan (essive plural)
stradivariuksinansa (essive plural)
stradivariuksekseen (singular translative)
stradivariukseksensa (singular translative)
stradivariuksikseen (plural translative)
stradivariuksiksensa (plural translative)
stradivariuksettaan (abessive singular)
stradivariuksettansa (abessive singular)
stradivariuksittaan (abessive plural)
stradivariuksittansa (abessive plural)
stradivariuksineen (comitative plural)
stradivariuksinensa (comitative plural)

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) Stradivarius (stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari)


פּיאַנע

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פּיאַנע • (pyane) f

yi-noun

פּיאַנע • (pyane) f


פֿײַפֿל

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פֿײַפֿל • (fayfl) n

yi-noun

פֿײַפֿל • (fayfl) n, plural פֿײַפֿלעך (fayflekh)

fayfl (romanization)
fayflekh (romanization)

Diminutive of פֿײַף (fayf), from Old High German pfīfa.


carraca

(music) ratchet, rattle, football rattle


kitalaq

From English guitar or Russian гита́ра (gitára, “guitar”).


กู่ฉิน

th-noun

กู่ฉิน • (gùu-chǐn)

/kuː˨˩.t͡ɕʰin˩˩˦/

From Mandarin 古琴 (gǔqín, “ancient stringed instrument”).


oficleide

Borrowed from French ophicléide, derived from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) + κλείς (kleís, “key”).


organistrum

en-noun

organistrum (plural organistrums or organistra)

organistrums (plural)
organistra (plural)

Those brought into use again were several forms of lutes, violins, and bagpipes, which were played upon proficiently by the "jongleurs," some of whom played also upon psalteries, organistrums, guitars, and tambours with great skill.

1912, Frederick Converse Beach, The Americana:


komuz

Borrowed from Kyrgyz комуз (komuz), from Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ.
Doublet of kobza and cobza.

(music) A stringed instrument (chordophone) played by plucking, with three strings and no frets, used throughout Central Asia but especially important as a national symbol of the Kyrgyz people.


terkotka

terkotka (nominative singular)
terkotki (nominative plural)
terkotki (genitive singular)
terkotek (genitive plural)
terkotce (dative singular)
terkotkom (dative plural)
terkotkę (accusative singular)
terkotki (accusative plural)
terkotką (instrumental singular)
terkotkami (instrumental plural)
terkotce (locative singular)
terkotkach (locative plural)
terkotko (singular vocative)
terkotki (plural vocative)

ratchet, noisemaker (percussion instrument)


zhonghu

(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.


czynel

czynel (nominative singular)
czynele (nominative plural)
czynela (genitive singular)
czyneli (genitive plural)
czynelów (genitive plural)
czynelowi (dative singular)
czynelom (dative plural)
czynel (accusative singular)
czynele (accusative plural)
czynelem (instrumental singular)
czynelami (instrumental plural)
czynelu (locative singular)
czynelach (locative plural)
czynelu (singular vocative)
czynele (plural vocative)

(usually in the plural) clash cymbal, one of a pair of cymbals played by holding one in each hand and striking them against one another


陶笛

/tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ti³⁵/

/tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ti³⁵/


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


銅鑼

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/

/taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/

/taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/


銅鑼

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/

/taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/

/tʰʊŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/tʰʊŋ²¹ lɔː²¹/

/tʰuŋ¹¹ lo¹¹/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ²⁴⁻²² lo²⁴/

/taŋ¹³⁻²² lo¹³/

/taŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ lo²⁴/

/taŋ²³⁻³³ lɤ²³/

(～鄉) Tongluo (a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan)


銅鑼

Possibly from Middle Chinese compound 銅鑼 (MC duwng la, literally “copper + gong”). Alternatively, coined in Japan from Middle Chinese-derived components.
The reading represents a likely sound shift from the expected on'yomi of dōra.

ltc-l

銅鑼焼き: literally : a kind of confection consisting of two small cake baked to resemble gong

sandwiching a filling of sweet azuki bean paste

vaguely similar to the way a gong can sound very brash


木魚

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (木魚):
* → Japanese: 木魚(もくぎょ) (mokugyo)
* → Korean: 목어(木魚) (mogeo)

/mu⁵¹ yə̯ɻ³⁵/

/mʊk̚² jyː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ᵐbɵk̚³² ᵑɡui²²/

/muk̚² ŋ̍¹¹/

/bɔk̚⁵⁻² hi²⁴/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² hi²³/

/bɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hi¹³/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² hi²⁴/

/bɔk̚²⁴⁻² hɯ²⁴/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² hu²⁴/

/moʔ¹¹ ɦy²³/

/mu⁵¹ yə̯ɻ³⁵/

/mʊk̚² jyː²¹⁻³⁵/

/ᵐbɵk̚³² ᵑɡui²²/

/muk̚² ŋ̍¹¹/

/bɔk̚⁵⁻² hi²⁴/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² hi²³/

/bɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hi¹³/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² hi²⁴/

/bɔk̚²⁴⁻² hɯ²⁴/

/bɔk̚⁴⁻³² hu²⁴/

/moʔ¹¹ ɦy²³/

wooden fish (Buddhist wooden percussion instrument)


木魚

[mo̞kɯ̟ɡʲo̞]

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

a wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a fish used to signal monks to their duties

a round, hollow, vaguely fish-shaped wooden percussion instrument used during recitations of Buddhist sutras


腰鼓

Sino-Xenic (腰鼓):
* → Japanese: 腰鼓(ようこ) (yōko)
* → Korean: 요고(腰鼓) (yogo)

/jɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/jiːu̯⁵⁵ kuː³⁵/

/io⁴⁴⁻²² kɔ⁵³/

/io³³ kɔ⁵⁵⁴/

/io⁴⁴⁻²² kɔ⁵³/

/io⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁵³/

/iɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁴¹/

/jɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/jiːu̯⁵⁵ kuː³⁵/

/io⁴⁴⁻²² kɔ⁵³/

/io³³ kɔ⁵⁵⁴/

/io⁴⁴⁻²² kɔ⁵³/

/io⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁵³/

/iɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ kɔ⁴¹/


زل

Turkish: zil

→ Albanian: zile

→ Cypriot Greek: ζίλιν (zílin)

→ English: zill, zil

→ Georgian: ზილი (zili)

→ Middle Armenian: զիլ (zil)

Armenian: զիլ (zil)

→ Serbo-Croatian: zȉl / зи̏л

Perhaps from Persian زیر (zir, “high-pitched”).


vessel flute

A type of flute with an enclosed rather than cylindrical body - i.e. a vessel rather than a tube - such as the ocarina, xun, etc.


tenora

(music) A tenor form of the Catalan shawm


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.


nyckelharpa

nyckelharpa (indefinite nominative singular)
nyckelharpas (genitive indefinite singular)
nyckelharpan (definite nominative singular)
nyckelharpans (definite genitive singular)
nyckelharpor (indefinite nominative plural)
nyckelharpors (genitive indefinite plural)
nyckelharporna (definite nominative plural)
nyckelharpornas (definite genitive plural)


dubki

From Bengali ডুবকি (ḍuboki), apparently equalling Hindi डुबकी (ḍubkī, “dive”) instead of Persian تنبک (tombak, “drum, tombak”).

As Paban sings, he twangs a khomok hand drum or thunders away at the dubki, a sort of rustic tambourine.

2009 September 11, William Dalrymple, “Singing and dancing with the Bauls of Bengal”, in Guardian:

The Lal Bazar area is still of some significance, for Kolkata is known for its excellent musical instrument production, especially its sitars, sarods, surbahars, tanpuras, violins, tablas, and harmoniums, as well as many so-called folk-music instruments, among them: thumbas, bongos, dotara, djembe, drums, violin, flute, khanjira, mandolin, banjo, khamak, matka, handi, guitar, castanets, tambourine, kanshar ghanta, conch, resso, blues harp, pan flute, spring drum, steel drum, melodica, harmonium, piano, moorcing, ektara, recorders, balalaika, dugdugi, dubki, edakkaii, cowbells, chimes, dholak, khol, madol—and more.

2018, Lars-Christian Koch, “String Instruments as Urban Icons and Rural Products”, in Sebastian Klotz, Philip V. Bohlman, Lars-Christian Koch, editors, Sounding Cities. Auditory Transformations in Berlin, Chicago, and Kolkata (KlangKulturStudien. SoundCultureStudies; 9), Zürich: LIT, →ISBN, page 190:

(music) A type of drum from Eastern India and Bangladesh.


khomok

(music) A type of drum from Bangladesh, incorporating a plucked string.


容器笛

ㄖㄨㄥˊ ㄑㄧˋ ㄉㄧˊ

/ʐʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹ ti³⁵/

/ʐʊŋ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹ ti³⁵/


guzheng

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.


saxtuba

An obsolete valved brasswind instrument inspired by the Ancient Roman cornu and tuba.


konghou

From Mandarin 箜篌 (kōnghóu), from the name of this instrument in the local language of the region of Central Asia whence it came to China; the Sogdian name for the angular harp was [script needed] (cngryʾ /čangaryā/), [script needed] (cyngryʾ /čingaryā/), which derives perhaps from Turkic čingar.

(music) A plucked stringed instrument (chordophone) with a harp-like construction, originating in ancient Chinese music as a horizontal instrument but now made to be played vertically, and with strings that are double to allow for techniques like vibrato.


кавал

mk-noun

кавал • (kaval) m (plural кавали, diminutive кавалче)

kaval (romanization)
кавали (plural)
кавалче (diminutive)
кавал (indefinite singular)
кавали (indefinite plural)
кавалот (definite singular unspecified)
кавалите (definite plural unspecified)
кавалов (definite proximal singular)
каваливе (definite plural proximal)
кавалон (definite distal singular)
кавалине (definite distal plural)
кавалу (singular vocative)
кавали (plural vocative)
кавала (count-form plural)


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:

acoustic bass guitar
acoustic bass guitar

(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.


hidrocristalófono

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hidrocristalófono m (plural hidrocristalófonos)

Primero, por el instrumento que toca, el clarinete, que los jazzistas modernos han abandonado en lo más profundo del baúl de los recuerdos, junto a la tuba en si bemol, el ukelele y la armónica de cristal o hidrocristalófono; segundo, por sus maneras propias de showoman consumada pese a su aparente corta edad (imposible obtener dato alguno acerca de su año de nacimiento a través de Internet).

2015 July 18, “La tristeza de un país alegre”, in El País:


冬不拉

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ lä⁵⁵/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ laːi̯⁵⁵/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ lä⁵⁵/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ laːi̯⁵⁵/

(music) dombra; dombura (a Kazakh stringed instrument)


τσαμπούνα

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τσαμπούνα • (tsampoúna /tsabúna/) f (plural τσαμπούνες)

tsampoúna (romanization)
tsabúna (romanization)
τσαμπούνες (plural)
τσαμπούνα (nominative singular)
τσαμπούνες (nominative plural)
τσαμπούνας (genitive singular)
τσαμπούνα (accusative singular)
τσαμπούνες (accusative plural)
τσαμπούνα (singular vocative)
τσαμπούνες (plural vocative)

→ English: tsampouna

An αντιδάνειο (antidáneio). -From medieval *τσαμπούνα (tsampoúna) for which see verb τσαμπουνίζω (tsampounízō)- borrowed from Italian zampogna (“bagpipes”), from Latin symphonia (“music, symphony”), from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía, “music, symphony”), already denoting "musical instrument" in Koine. Doublet of συμφωνία (symfonía). Also see the medieval form τσαμπούρνα (tsampoúrna).

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(music) tsampouna (bagpipes of the Greek islands)


tsampouna

Borrowed from Greek τσαμπούνα (tsampoúna). Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, symphony, and zampogna.

doublet

(music) A bagpipe of the Greek islands; a folk instrument without a drone but with two chanters.


γκάιδα

gkáida (romanization)
γκάιδες (plural)
γκάιδα (nominative singular)
γκάιδες (nominative plural)
γκάιδας (genitive singular)
γκάιδα (accusative singular)
γκάιδες (accusative plural)
γκάιδα (singular vocative)
γκάιδες (plural vocative)

γκάιντα γκάιντα#Greek


хуур

xuur (romanization)
хуур (attributive)
хуур (indefinite nominative singular)
хуурууд (definite nominative plural)
хуурын (genitive indefinite singular)
хууруудын (definite genitive plural)
хуурыг (accusative indefinite singular)
хууруудыг (accusative definite plural)
хуурт (dative indefinite locative singular)
хууруудад (dative definite locative plural)
хуураас (ablative indefinite singular)
хууруудаас (ablative definite plural)
хуураар (indefinite instrumental singular)
хууруудаар (definite instrumental plural)
хууртай (comitative indefinite singular)
хууруудтай (comitative definite plural)
хуургүй (indefinite privative singular)
хууруудгүй (definite plural privative)
хуур луу (directive indefinite singular)
хуурууд руу (definite directive plural)
хуураа (indefinite nominative singular)
хууруудаа (definite nominative plural)
хуурынхаа (genitive indefinite singular)
хууруудынхаа (definite genitive plural)
хуурыгаа (accusative indefinite singular)
хууруудыгаа (accusative definite plural)
хууртаа (dative indefinite locative singular)
хуурууддаа (dative definite locative plural)
хуураасаа (ablative indefinite singular)
хууруудаасаа (ablative definite plural)
хуураараа (indefinite instrumental singular)
хууруудаараа (definite instrumental plural)
хууртайгаа (comitative indefinite singular)
хууруудтайгаа (comitative definite plural)
хуургүйгээ (indefinite privative singular)
хууруудгүйгээ (definite plural privative)
хуур луугаа (directive indefinite singular)
хуурууд руугаа (definite directive plural)

From Proto-Mongolic *kuxur (“a musical (string) instrument”) borrowed or perhaps cognate to Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ (“a kind of musical (string) instrument”).
Compare East Yugur xuur, Daur koor, Turkish kopuz.


хийл

mn-noun

хийл • (xiil) (Mongolian spelling ᠬᠢᠭᠢᠯᠢ (kigili))


жалейка

ru-noun+

жале́йка • (žaléjka) f inan (genitive жале́йки, nominative plural жале́йки, genitive plural жале́ек)

жале́йка (canonical)
žaléjka (romanization)
жале́йки (genitive)
жале́йки (nominative plural)
жале́ек (genitive plural)
жале́йка (nominative singular)
жале́йки (nominative plural)
жале́йки (genitive singular)
жале́ек (genitive plural)
жале́йке (dative singular)
жале́йкам (dative plural)
жале́йку (accusative singular)
жале́йки (accusative plural)
жале́йкой (instrumental singular)
жале́йкою (instrumental singular)
жале́йками (instrumental plural)
жале́йке (prepositional singular)
жале́йках (plural prepositional)

From жалея́ (žalejá, “zhaleika; pipe”) + -ка (-ka, diminutive suffix), from жале́ть (žalétʹ, “to pity, feel sorry”) + -ея (-eja).

Пасту́х где́-то за приго́рком игра́л на «жале́йке», и зву́ки э́той «жале́йки», просты́е и жа́лобные, каза́лось, ли́лись в прозра́чный во́здух, стоя́ли в нём, пла́кали, жа́ловались, навева́я на́ душу ти́хую, прия́тную грусть…

1904, С. П. Подъячев [S. P. Podyachev], Среди рабочих:

Somewhere behind the hillock a shepherd played the "zhaleika", and the sounds of this "zhaleika", simple and plaintive, seemed to pour into the clear air, hung there and cried, complaining, casting an atmosphere of quiet, pleasant sadness into the soul…

Pastúx gdé-to za prigórkom igrál na «žaléjke», i zvúki étoj «žaléjki», prostýje i žálobnyje, kazálosʹ, lílisʹ v prozráčnyj vózdux, stojáli v njom, plákali, žálovalisʹ, navevája ná dušu tíxuju, prijátnuju grustʹ…


cimbaletto

(music) a type of Spanish tambourine that incorporated rattles


بيانو

acw-noun

بيانو • (biyānu or piyānu) m (plural بيانوات (byānōwāt) or بيانوهات (byānōhāt))

biyānu (romanization)
piyānu (romanization)
بيانوات (plural)
بيانوهات (plural)


بيانو

ajp-noun

بيانو • (byāno) m (plural بيانوات (byānowāt) or بيانويات (byānoyāt))

byāno (romanization)
بيانوات (plural)
بيانويات (plural)


drombulja

sh-noun

drombulja f (Cyrillic spelling дромбуља)


guacharaca

(music) A percussion instrument in the form of a partly hollowed tube with ridges carved in its outer surface, played with a wire fork.


трембита

ru-noun+

тремби́та • (trembíta) f inan (genitive тремби́ты, nominative plural тремби́ты, genitive plural тремби́т)

тремби́та (canonical)
trembíta (romanization)
тремби́ты (genitive)
тремби́ты (nominative plural)
тремби́т (genitive plural)
тремби́та (nominative singular)
тремби́ты (nominative plural)
тремби́ты (genitive singular)
тремби́т (genitive plural)
тремби́те (dative singular)
тремби́там (dative plural)
тремби́ту (accusative singular)
тремби́ты (accusative plural)
тремби́той (instrumental singular)
тремби́тою (instrumental singular)
тремби́тами (instrumental plural)
тремби́те (prepositional singular)
тремби́тах (plural prepositional)

[trʲɪm⁽ʲ⁾ˈbʲitə]

Borrowed from Ukrainian трембіта (trembita), from Hungarian trombita, from Italian trombetta, diminutive of tromba.

bor+

(music) trembita (an alpine horn made of wood)


bemba

(music, Trinidad and Tobago) A type of folk drum used in Trinidad and Tobago.


gwo ka

(music, Guadeloupe) A type of drum and a genre of music associated with it, from the folk culture of the island of Guadeloupe.


морин хуур

Derived from Classical Mongolian ᠮᠣᠷᠢᠨ
ᠲᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠢ ᠲᠠᠢ
ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (morin toluɣai-tai quɣur, “fiddle with a horse's head”).

der

ᠮᠣᠷᠢᠨ ᠲᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠢ ᠲᠠᠢ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ

der+

ᠮᠣᠷᠢᠨ ᠲᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠢ ᠲᠠᠢ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ

horse-head fiddle (string instrument with a carved horse head on top)


цуур

mn-noun

цуур • (cuur) (Mongolian spelling ᠴᠤᠭᠤᠷ (čuɣur))


សំភោរ

kind of double-headed wooden drum with heads made of skin on both ends (one end is slightly larger than the other. It is arranged horizontally on a wooden base. It is played with the palms of the hands.)


สะโพน

ตะโพน ตะโพน#Thai

(music, obsolete) taphon (an old form of ตะโพน (dtà-poon)).


домбра

ru-noun+

домбра́ • (dombrá) f inan (genitive домбры́, nominative plural домбры́, genitive plural домбр, relational adjective домбро́вый)

домбра́ (canonical)
dombrá (romanization)
домбры́ (genitive)
домбры́ (nominative plural)
домбр (genitive plural)
домбро́вый (adjective relational)
домбра́ (nominative singular)
домбры́ (nominative plural)
домбры́ (genitive singular)
до́мбр (genitive plural)
домбре́ (dative singular)
домбра́м (dative plural)
домбру́ (accusative singular)
домбры́ (accusative plural)
домбро́й (instrumental singular)
домбро́ю (instrumental singular)
домбра́ми (instrumental plural)
домбре́ (prepositional singular)
домбра́х (plural prepositional)

Borrowed from Kazakh домбыра (dombyra), from Persian دنب بره (donb-e barre, literally “lamb's tail”). Related to Ottoman Turkish طنبوره (tanbura/tambura), Turkish tambura, Romanian tambură, Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), etc.
Doublet of до́мра (dómra) and танбу́р (tanbúr).

doublet

(music) dombra (long-necked lute of Turkic or Central Asian origin)


boom pipe

(music, Caribbean) A musical instrument made from a piece of pipe blown in at one end to provide the bass in the folk music traditions of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat.


toombah

(music, Antigua and Barbuda) A small drum used in the traditional music of Antigua and Barbuda.


shak-shak

(music, Caribbean) Any of several kinds of traditional shakers or rattles found throughout the Caribbean.

maraca

a general synonym for rattles or shakers in general


chac-chac

(music, Caribbean) A type of rattle used in the traditional music of Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago; it is made from a gourd and used to provide a rhythm.


chak-chak

(music, Saint Lucia) A musical instrument filled with seeds or grain and used as a rattle in traditional Saint Lucian music.


shack-shack

(music, Caribbean) A child's rattle, used in various Caribbean folk music traditions.

Albizia lebbeck
Albizia lebbeck#Translingual

Delonix regia
Delonix regia#Translingual

A seed pod of various trees, especially wild tamarind, woman's tongue tree (Albizia lebbeck) and royal poinciana (Delonix regia).


xaque-xaque

(music) A type of Brazilian rattle, usually played in pairs and mounted on a stick.


ensansi

(music) A type of rattle worn on the wrist and used in the traditional Kongo-Angola dance and music of Cuba.


maruga

(music) A kind of traditional Cuban shaker or rattle made of metal.


acoustic bass guitar

en-noun

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.


طبلة

ar-noun

طَبْلَة • (ṭabla) f (plural طَبَلَات (ṭabalāt))

طَبْلَة (canonical)
ṭabla (romanization)
طَبَلَات (plural)
طَبْلَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
طَبْلَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
طَبْلَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
طَبْلَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
طَبْلَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
طَبْلَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
طَبْلَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
طَبْلَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الطَّبْلَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
طَبْلَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
طَبَلَات (feminine indefinite informal plural sound-form)
الطَّبَلَات (definite feminine informal plural sound-form)
طَبَلَات (construct feminine informal plural sound-form)
طَبَلَاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative plural sound-form)
الطَّبَلَاتُ (definite feminine nominative plural sound-form)
طَبَلَاتُ (construct feminine nominative plural sound-form)
طَبَلَاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite plural sound-form)
الطَّبَلَاتِ (accusative definite feminine plural sound-form)
طَبَلَاتِ (accusative construct feminine plural sound-form)
طَبَلَاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite plural sound-form)
الطَّبَلَاتِ (definite feminine genitive plural sound-form)
طَبَلَاتِ (construct feminine genitive plural sound-form)


ταμπουράς

head

ταμπουράς • (tampourás) m (plural ταμπουράδες)

tampourás (romanization)
ταμπουράδες (plural)
ταμπουράς (nominative singular)
ταμπουράδες (nominative plural)
ταμπουρά (genitive singular)
ταμπουράδων (genitive plural)
ταμπουρά (accusative singular)
ταμπουράδες (accusative plural)
ταμπουρά (singular vocative)
ταμπουράδες (plural vocative)

From Ottoman Turkish طنبوره (tambura) from Persian تنبور (tanbur).

(music) tambura or tamburas, stringed musical instrument similar to a lute


τζουράς

τζουράς • (tzourás) m (plural τζουράδες)

tzourás (romanization)
τζουράδες (plural)
τζουράς (nominative singular)
τζουράδες (nominative plural)
τζουρά (genitive singular)
τζουράδων (genitive plural)
τζουρά (accusative singular)
τζουράδες (accusative plural)
τζουρά (singular vocative)
τζουράδες (plural vocative)

From Ottoman Turkish جوره (cura) from either Persian جوره (jura) or Persian جره (jarra).

(music) tzouras, stringed musical instrument similar to a lute


tzouras

From Greek τζουράς (tzourás), from Turkish cura.

(music) A Greek long-necked fretted lute.


τουμπελέκι

τουμπελέκι • (toumpeléki) n (plural τουμπελέκια)

toumpeléki (romanization)
τουμπελέκια (plural)
τουμπελέκι (nominative singular)
τουμπελέκια (nominative plural)
τουμπελεκιού (genitive singular)
τουμπελεκιών (genitive plural)
τουμπελέκι (accusative singular)
τουμπελέκια (accusative plural)
τουμπελέκι (singular vocative)
τουμπελέκια (plural vocative)

el-decl-noun

τουμπελεκιού

τουμπελεκιών

→ English: toubeleki

(music, colloquial) toubeleki (a metal drum)


τουμπερλέκι

head

τουμπερλέκια

τουμπερλέκι • (toumperléki) n (plural τουμπερλέκια)

el-noun

τουμπερλέκια

toumperléki (romanization)
τουμπερλέκια (plural)
τουμπερλέκι (nominative singular)
τουμπερλέκια (nominative plural)
τουμπερλεκιού (genitive singular)
τουμπερλεκιών (genitive plural)
τουμπερλέκι (accusative singular)
τουμπερλέκια (accusative plural)
τουμπερλέκι (singular vocative)
τουμπερλέκια (plural vocative)

el-decl-noun

τουμπερλέκια

τουμπερλεκιού

τουμπερλεκιών

τουμπερλέκια

τουμπερλέκια

τουμπελέκι τουμπελέκι#Greek

Alternative form of τουμπελέκι (toumpeléki)


ντουμπελέκι

head

ντουμπελέκια

ντουμπελέκι • (ntoumpeléki) n (plural ντουμπελέκια)

el-noun

ντουμπελέκια

ntoumpeléki (romanization)
ντουμπελέκια (plural)
ντουμπελέκι (nominative singular)
ντουμπελέκια (nominative plural)
ντουμπελεκιού (genitive singular)
ντουμπελεκιών (genitive plural)
ντουμπελέκι (accusative singular)
ντουμπελέκια (accusative plural)
ντουμπελέκι (singular vocative)
ντουμπελέκια (plural vocative)

el-decl-noun

ντουμπελέκια

ντουμπελεκιού

ντουμπελεκιών

ντουμπελέκια

ντουμπελέκια

τουμπελέκι τουμπελέκι#Greek


toubeleki

From Greek τουμπελέκι (toumpeléki), from Turkish dümbelek.


電子貝斯

ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄗˇ ㄅㄟˋ ㄙ

дяньцзы бэйсы

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/


電貝司

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

/ti̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/


貝斯

/peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

/peɪ̯⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵/

bass (musical instrument, either double bass or electric bass guitar)


jongan

Unknown. Possibly related to jonë, a variant of jeh (“echo”), with a unique ending in -gan.


suuharppu

suuharppu (nominative singular)
suuharput (nominative plural)
suuharppu (accusative nominative singular)
suuharput (accusative nominative plural)
suuharpun (accusative genitive singular)
suuharput (accusative genitive plural)
suuharpun (genitive singular)
suuharppujen (genitive plural)
suuharppua (partitive singular)
suuharppuja (partitive plural)
suuharpussa (inessive singular)
suuharpuissa (inessive plural)
suuharpusta (elative singular)
suuharpuista (elative plural)
suuharppuun (illative singular)
suuharppuihin (illative plural)
suuharpulla (adessive singular)
suuharpuilla (adessive plural)
suuharpulta (ablative singular)
suuharpuilta (ablative plural)
suuharpulle (allative singular)
suuharpuille (allative plural)
suuharppuna (essive singular)
suuharppuina (essive plural)
suuharpuksi (singular translative)
suuharpuiksi (plural translative)
suuharputta (abessive singular)
suuharpuitta (abessive plural)
suuharpuin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
suuharppuni (nominative singular)
suuharppuni (nominative plural)
suuharppuni (accusative nominative singular)
suuharppuni (accusative nominative plural)
suuharppuni (accusative genitive singular)
suuharppuni (accusative genitive plural)
suuharppuni (genitive singular)
suuharppujeni (genitive plural)
suuharppuani (partitive singular)
suuharppujani (partitive plural)
suuharpussani (inessive singular)
suuharpuissani (inessive plural)
suuharpustani (elative singular)
suuharpuistani (elative plural)
suuharppuuni (illative singular)
suuharppuihini (illative plural)
suuharpullani (adessive singular)
suuharpuillani (adessive plural)
suuharpultani (ablative singular)
suuharpuiltani (ablative plural)
suuharpulleni (allative singular)
suuharpuilleni (allative plural)
suuharppunani (essive singular)
suuharppuinani (essive plural)
suuharpukseni (singular translative)
suuharpuikseni (plural translative)
suuharputtani (abessive singular)
suuharpuittani (abessive plural)
suuharppuineni (comitative plural)
suuharppusi (nominative singular)
suuharppusi (nominative plural)
suuharppusi (accusative nominative singular)
suuharppusi (accusative nominative plural)
suuharppusi (accusative genitive singular)
suuharppusi (accusative genitive plural)
suuharppusi (genitive singular)
suuharppujesi (genitive plural)
suuharppuasi (partitive singular)
suuharppujasi (partitive plural)
suuharpussasi (inessive singular)
suuharpuissasi (inessive plural)
suuharpustasi (elative singular)
suuharpuistasi (elative plural)
suuharppuusi (illative singular)
suuharppuihisi (illative plural)
suuharpullasi (adessive singular)
suuharpuillasi (adessive plural)
suuharpultasi (ablative singular)
suuharpuiltasi (ablative plural)
suuharpullesi (allative singular)
suuharpuillesi (allative plural)
suuharppunasi (essive singular)
suuharppuinasi (essive plural)
suuharpuksesi (singular translative)
suuharpuiksesi (plural translative)
suuharputtasi (abessive singular)
suuharpuittasi (abessive plural)
suuharppuinesi (comitative plural)
suuharppumme (nominative singular)
suuharppumme (nominative plural)
suuharppumme (accusative nominative singular)
suuharppumme (accusative nominative plural)
suuharppumme (accusative genitive singular)
suuharppumme (accusative genitive plural)
suuharppumme (genitive singular)
suuharppujemme (genitive plural)
suuharppuamme (partitive singular)
suuharppujamme (partitive plural)
suuharpussamme (inessive singular)
suuharpuissamme (inessive plural)
suuharpustamme (elative singular)
suuharpuistamme (elative plural)
suuharppuumme (illative singular)
suuharppuihimme (illative plural)
suuharpullamme (adessive singular)
suuharpuillamme (adessive plural)
suuharpultamme (ablative singular)
suuharpuiltamme (ablative plural)
suuharpullemme (allative singular)
suuharpuillemme (allative plural)
suuharppunamme (essive singular)
suuharppuinamme (essive plural)
suuharpuksemme (singular translative)
suuharpuiksemme (plural translative)
suuharputtamme (abessive singular)
suuharpuittamme (abessive plural)
suuharppuinemme (comitative plural)
suuharppunne (nominative singular)
suuharppunne (nominative plural)
suuharppunne (accusative nominative singular)
suuharppunne (accusative nominative plural)
suuharppunne (accusative genitive singular)
suuharppunne (accusative genitive plural)
suuharppunne (genitive singular)
suuharppujenne (genitive plural)
suuharppuanne (partitive singular)
suuharppujanne (partitive plural)
suuharpussanne (inessive singular)
suuharpuissanne (inessive plural)
suuharpustanne (elative singular)
suuharpuistanne (elative plural)
suuharppuunne (illative singular)
suuharppuihinne (illative plural)
suuharpullanne (adessive singular)
suuharpuillanne (adessive plural)
suuharpultanne (ablative singular)
suuharpuiltanne (ablative plural)
suuharpullenne (allative singular)
suuharpuillenne (allative plural)
suuharppunanne (essive singular)
suuharppuinanne (essive plural)
suuharpuksenne (singular translative)
suuharpuiksenne (plural translative)
suuharputtanne (abessive singular)
suuharpuittanne (abessive plural)
suuharppuinenne (comitative plural)
suuharppunsa (nominative singular)
suuharppunsa (nominative plural)
suuharppunsa (accusative nominative singular)
suuharppunsa (accusative nominative plural)
suuharppunsa (accusative genitive singular)
suuharppunsa (accusative genitive plural)
suuharppunsa (genitive singular)
suuharppujensa (genitive plural)
suuharppuaan (partitive singular)
suuharppuansa (partitive singular)
suuharppujaan (partitive plural)
suuharppujansa (partitive plural)
suuharpussaan (inessive singular)
suuharpussansa (inessive singular)
suuharpuissaan (inessive plural)
suuharpuissansa (inessive plural)
suuharpustaan (elative singular)
suuharpustansa (elative singular)
suuharpuistaan (elative plural)
suuharpuistansa (elative plural)
suuharppuunsa (illative singular)
suuharppuihinsa (illative plural)
suuharpullaan (adessive singular)
suuharpullansa (adessive singular)
suuharpuillaan (adessive plural)
suuharpuillansa (adessive plural)
suuharpultaan (ablative singular)
suuharpultansa (ablative singular)
suuharpuiltaan (ablative plural)
suuharpuiltansa (ablative plural)
suuharpulleen (allative singular)
suuharpullensa (allative singular)
suuharpuilleen (allative plural)
suuharpuillensa (allative plural)
suuharppunaan (essive singular)
suuharppunansa (essive singular)
suuharppuinaan (essive plural)
suuharppuinansa (essive plural)
suuharpukseen (singular translative)
suuharpuksensa (singular translative)
suuharpuikseen (plural translative)
suuharpuiksensa (plural translative)
suuharputtaan (abessive singular)
suuharputtansa (abessive singular)
suuharpuittaan (abessive plural)
suuharpuittansa (abessive plural)
suuharppuineen (comitative plural)
suuharppuinensa (comitative plural)

From suu + harppu. Compare Swedish munharpa and Norwegian munnharpe.


longar

Unknown. Possibly related to Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós).


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

en-noun

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.


dutar

(music) A two-stringed lute with a long neck, found in Central Asia.


nattuvangam

(music) Cymbals played to accompany a Bharatanatyam performance.


espineta

(Tarragona) dark meat from the neck of tuna


espineta

(music) spinet (short, compact harpsichord)


tenor drum

(music) A low-pitched drum used in Western orchestral music and for marching, such as in the military and in parades.


crowdy-crawn

(music) A type of sheepskin-covered hoop (a crowd) used as a frame drum, originating in the traditional music of Cornwall, England.


percussion idiophone

percussion idiophone (plural percussion idiophones)

(music) An idiophone that produces sound when it vibrates due to being struck by an object that does not vibrate; a xylophone-like instrument played percussively.


slit drum

(music) A type of idiophone, consisting of a material (usually bamboo or wood) hollowed out and possessing one or more slits on the top.


liuti attiorbati

(music) A type of small archlute; a fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with double courses in the bass and two sets of tuning pegs.


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.


thumb piano

(music) Any type of lamellophone having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs; a mbira.


hand drum

(music) A drum (membranophone) played with the hand, as opposed to being struck with a drumstick, mallet or other object.


keyboard instrument

keyboard instrument (plural keyboard instruments)

(music) Any musical instrument which features a keyboard, such as a piano, synthesizer or celesta.

(music) Any musical instrument that produces sound directly from the manipulation of a keyboard by the performer, including a piano and a celesta.

(music) Any musical instrument (a chordophone) that uses a keyboard to manipulate strings which produce sound, including a piano.


stone xylophone

stone xylophone (plural stone xylophones)

(music) A musical instrument (a lithophone) consisting of pieces of stone as sounding bars that produce tuned sounds when struck, like a xylophone.


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.


damphu

(music) A double-sided disk-shaped drum of Nepalese origin.


dhimay

(music) A double-headed cylindrical drum of South Asian origin.


karyenda

(music) A drum of Burundian origin, revered as a national symbol of spiritual importance.


morsing

(music) A type of Jew's harp (a lamellophone), a metal ring with two parallel forks and a tongue in the middle, used mainly in India and Pakistan.


vest frottoir

(music) A frottoir designed to be worn like a vest.


dhantal

(music) A percussion instrument (idiophone) of Indo-Caribbean origin, consisting of a steel rod that is struck by a horseshoe shaped beater, sounding similar to a triangle.


ghanta

The abhisheka of the ghanta, or bell, is the fourth abhisheka of the vase. Presenting the student with the ghanta signifies that he is not only concerned with personal realization but is also willing to proclaim the teachings for the benefit of others.

1991, Chögyam Trungpa, The Heart of the Buddha, Shambhala Publications, page 123:

The ghantas are hand bells and represent the wisdom the practitioner is attempting to cultivate.

2002, Bradley K. Hawkins, The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Buddhism, page 111:

The ritual hand-bell or ghanta represents the feminine principle of the 'Perfection of Wisdom' (Skt. prajna-paramita), which directly realizes emptiness.

2003, The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols, Serindia Publications, Inc, page 92:

(music) A type of bell, usually constructed of brass, used in Hindu rituals.


nail violin

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


ugal

(music) A bronze metallophone used in the classical gamelan music of Indonesia.


skrabalai

(music) A set of tuned wooden bells of Lithuanian origin, held in trapezoidal racks with several vertical rows, and played by a pair of wooden sticks.


splash cymbal

(music) Either of a pair of small cymbals used to provide a special effect or accent, part of a modern drum kit.


devil chase

(music) A musical instrument (idiophone) made from a split stalk of bamboo struck against a performer's hand, originating in South Asia.


gandingan

(music) A musical instrument, consisting of an array of four hanging gongs, of Filipino origin.


glasschord

(music) A crystallophone similar to a celesta that uses glass bars in place of metal ones.


octavin

(music) A single-reed instrument with a conical bore, originating in Germany.


pibgorn

(music) A Welsh single-reed wind instrument or pipe with a horn at each end.


saxonette

(music) A soprano clarinet with a curved barrel and an upturned bell.


sudrophone

Invented by François Sudre (1844–1912), + -phone.

(music) A brass instrument with a cylindrical bore and four valves.


washint

(music) An endblown flute of Ethiopian origin.


gragger

(music) A type of ratchet (an idiophone musical instrument) used mainly in Purim celebrations in Jewish tradition; it consists of a board and a gearwheel attached to a handle, and is played by swinging the mechanism to make the gearwheel scrape against the board, producing a percussive sound.


hokyo

(music) A metallophone of Japanese origin.


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.


agidigbo

English: agidigbo

/à.ɡí.dì.ɡ͡bō/

agidigbo, a traditional Yoruba lamellophone


array mbira

(music) A type of plucked lamellophone, a Western adaptation of the African mbira.


babendil

(music) A narrow-rimmed gong of Filipino origin, used singly to provide a rhythm in a kulintang ensemble.


banghyang

(music) A metallophone of Korean origin.


bianzhong

/ˈbi.ænˈd͡ʒɔŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 編鐘 /编钟 (biānzhōng).

The bianzhong (編鐘) is an ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of 65 chime bells. Because it was only used for performances at the imperial court, it came to be known as the “instrument of kings” (王者之器).

2014 February 20, Hsiang-yi Tang, “The sound of kings”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-28, Features, page 12:

(music) A set of bronze bells played to provide melody, of ancient Chinese origin.


bonang

(music) A set of small gongs placed on a rack and usually struck with a padded stick, a type of gong chime, used in the gamelan music of Java.


bonsho

(Buddhism, music) A very large bell used in Buddhist temples in Japan to mark time and call monks in for prayer.


huiringua

(music) A slit drum made from a hollow log, of Mexican origin, struck with a pair of wood mallets.


kisanji

(music) A small plucked lamellophone, originating among the Ngala people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


kolenang

(music) A type of bonang (a gong chime) with gongs laid out in a V or U-shape, used in the gamelan degung music of Sunda.


kouxian

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 口弦 (kǒuxián).

(music) A type of mouth harp, of Chinese origin, usually made of bamboo or sometimes brass, and often consisting of more than one lamellae.


kubing

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


reyong

(music) A type of gong chime, a set of gongs laid out on a rack and sometimes played by up to four people simultaneously, used in the gamelan music of Bali.


ring of bells

(music) A set of large bells of English origin, played by means of a wheel that moves each bell in a nearly 360-degree arc.


saron

percussion idiophone
percussion idiophone

(music) A percussion idiophone with bronze bars, of Indonesian origin, used in gamelan music.


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
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.


tetrachordo

(music) A tetrachord (four-stringed) 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.


Tusch

de-noun

Tusch m (strong, genitive Tusches or Tuschs, plural Tusche or Tuschs)

Tusches (genitive)
Tuschs (genitive)
Tusche (plural)
Tuschs (plural)
Tusch (nominative singular)
Tusche (definite nominative plural)
Tuschs (definite nominative plural)
Tusches (genitive singular)
Tuschs (genitive singular)
Tusche (definite genitive plural)
Tuschs (definite genitive plural)
Tusch (dative singular)
Tusche (dative singular)
Tuschen (dative definite plural)
Tuschs (dative definite plural)
Tusch (accusative singular)
Tusche (accusative definite plural)
Tuschs (accusative definite plural)

Russian: туш (tuš)

From tuschen (“to stike loudly, to clash”), with influence from French touche (“touch”).


bordonua

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


bowed psaltery

en-noun

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.


elektro-baglama

(music) A baglama modified with magnetic pickups so as to be a modern electric instrument.


τούμπα

toúmpa (romanization)
τούμπες (plural)
τούμπα (nominative singular)
τούμπες (nominative plural)
τούμπας (genitive singular)
τούμπα (accusative singular)
τούμπες (accusative plural)
τούμπα (singular vocative)
τούμπες (plural vocative)


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.


Irish bouzouki

(music) A bouzouki adapted for use in Irish traditional music with a short neck, and a flat back and sides.


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

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

From Japanese 蛇皮線 (jabisen, literally “snakeskin strings”).

bor

Introduced into China from Central Asia and thence to Ryūkyū in the very late 14th century, the jabisen gives a special flavor to the folk culture of Okinawa.

1973 June, “OKINAWA, The Islands That Fortune Overlooked”, in The East, volume 9, number 5, Tokyo: East Publications, →ISSN, page 48, columns 1–2:


jabisen

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


charangon

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


idakka

(music) An hourglass-shaped drum originating in Kerala in India; it is struck with a stick, and its pitch can be altered by means of the lacing between the two heads.


chuniri

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)

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


yazh

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


d-hole

(music) A sound hole, shaped like the letter D, through the top surface of a string instrument.


c-hole

(music) A sound hole, shaped like a lower-case c, through the top surface of a string instrument.


s-hole

(music) A sound hole, shaped like the letter s, through the top surface of a string instrument.


ff-hole

(music) A sound hole, shaped like the letters ff, through the top surface of a string instrument.


horsehead fiddle

horsehead fiddle (plural horsehead fiddles)

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)

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.


hardingfele

Hardanger fiddle
Hardanger fiddle#English


hardingfele

hardingfela (definite singular)
hardingfelen (definite singular)
hardingfeler (indefinite plural)
hardingfelene (definite plural)

From harding (“person from Hardanger”) + fele.


hardingfele

hardingfela (definite singular)
hardingfeler (indefinite plural)
hardingfelene (definite plural)


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

en-noun

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

(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

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


gopuz

(music) A komuz (a stringed instrument).


kopuz

head

kopuz (definite accusative kopuzu, plural kopuzlar)

kopuzu (accusative definite)
kopuzlar (plural)
kopuz (nominative singular)
kopuzlar (nominative plural)
kopuzu (accusative definite singular)
kopuzları (accusative definite plural)
kopuza (dative singular)
kopuzlara (dative plural)
kopuzda (locative singular)
kopuzlarda (locative plural)
kopuzdan (ablative singular)
kopuzlardan (ablative plural)
kopuzun (genitive singular)
kopuzların (genitive plural)
kopuzum (first-person nominative singular)
kopuzlarım (first-person nominative singular)
kopuzun (nominative second-person singular)
kopuzların (nominative second-person singular)
kopuzu (nominative singular third-person)
kopuzları (nominative singular third-person)
kopuzumuz (first-person nominative plural)
kopuzlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
kopuzunuz (nominative plural second-person)
kopuzlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
kopuzları (nominative plural third-person)
kopuzumu (accusative definite first-person singular)
kopuzlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
kopuzunu (accusative definite second-person singular)
kopuzlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
kopuzunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
kopuzlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
kopuzumuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
kopuzlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
kopuzunuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
kopuzlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
kopuzlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
kopuzuma (dative first-person singular)
kopuzlarıma (dative first-person singular)
kopuzuna (dative second-person singular)
kopuzlarına (dative second-person singular)
kopuzuna (dative singular third-person)
kopuzlarına (dative singular third-person)
kopuzumuza (dative first-person plural)
kopuzlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
kopuzunuza (dative plural second-person)
kopuzlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
kopuzlarına (dative plural third-person)
kopuzumda (first-person locative singular)
kopuzlarımda (first-person locative singular)
kopuzunda (locative second-person singular)
kopuzlarında (locative second-person singular)
kopuzunda (locative singular third-person)
kopuzlarında (locative singular third-person)
kopuzumuzda (first-person locative plural)
kopuzlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
kopuzunuzda (locative plural second-person)
kopuzlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
kopuzlarında (locative plural third-person)
kopuzumdan (ablative first-person singular)
kopuzlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
kopuzundan (ablative second-person singular)
kopuzlarından (ablative second-person singular)
kopuzundan (ablative singular third-person)
kopuzlarından (ablative singular third-person)
kopuzumuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
kopuzlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
kopuzunuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
kopuzlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
kopuzlarından (ablative plural third-person)
kopuzumun (first-person genitive singular)
kopuzlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
kopuzunun (genitive second-person singular)
kopuzlarının (genitive second-person singular)
kopuzunun (genitive singular third-person)
kopuzlarının (genitive singular third-person)
kopuzumuzun (first-person genitive plural)
kopuzlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
kopuzunuzun (genitive plural second-person)
kopuzlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
kopuzlarının (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish قوپوز (kopuz, “a lute with a somewhat globular body”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (kopuz, “stringed instrument”), from Proto-Turkic *kopuŕ (“a k. of musical (string) instrument”). Akin to Proto-Mongolic *kuxur (“a musical (string) instrument”) (cf. Mongolian хуур (xuur)), Altaicists consider the Mongolic form to be a cognate to Turkic (although the Altaic theory is now largely discredited), however an early borrowing from Turkic has also been proposed.


armónico guitar

en-noun

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

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


octophone

(music) A modern stringed instrument intended to be able to play the tone combinations of the tenor guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele, taro-patch fiddle, tiple, mandolin, mandola and mandocello.


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

(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.


Houden

From Old Frisian horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn. Cognates include West Frisian hoarn and German Horn.

(Romelse, Skäddel) horn (musical instrument)


four-string guitar

four-string guitar (plural four-string guitars)


harp guitar

(music) Any of several designs of guitars with at least one unstopped string that can be plucked, like that of a harp.


kit violin

(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.


squeeze box

Mama's got a squeeze box she wears on her chest. / From when Daddy comes home, he never gets no rest. / Because she's playing all night, and the music's all right.

1975 November, Pete Townshend (lyrics and music), “Squeeze Box”, in The Who by Numbers, performed by The Who:

(Pause. peter picks up his squeeze box.) / peter I sing with this. / george A concertina. / peter No, it's a squeeze box. Can you play it? / george I love music, but can't play a thing.

1980, Louis Nowra, “Inside the Island”, in Helen Gilbert, editor, Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 291:

Like the "concertina oompah" phase of the Dutchman style, the Slovenian polka sound emphasizes skill with a squeezebox.

1999, James P. Leary, “Polka Music in a Polka State”, in James P. Leary, editor, Wisconsin Folklore, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 279:

Intoxicating, the cheap Moroccan wallets, squashed and flattened in their elasticated dozens, which he eased apart like squeeze-boxes, releasing their scent of oxhide, of urine, of all the dyes and spices of the kasbah.

2002, Howard Jacobson, chapter 2, in Who's Sorry Now?, London: Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0-224-06286-2; republished London: Vintage Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-09-943737-6, page 29

It [Serenade for Winds in B Flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] started simply enough: just a pulse in the lowest registers – bassoons and basset horns – like a rusty squeezebox. It would have been comic except for the slowness, which gave it instead a sort of serenity. […] But the squeezebox went on and on, and the pain cut deeper into my shaking head, until suddenly I was running, dashing through the side door, stumbling downstairs into the street, into the cold night, gasping for life.

2003, Cliff Eisen, quoting Antonio Salieri, “Mozart’s Chamber Music”, in Simon P. Keefe, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Mozart, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 105:

Squeezeboxes are essential instruments in most polka traditions, especially the button accordion, the piano accordion, and the Chemnitzer concertina. […] Manufacture and sale of squeezeboxes made the instruments widely accessible at a time when polkas were all the rage. The squeezebox-polka association remains. A majority of polka bands use an accordion or concertina.

2006, Richard March, “Polka”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 388, column 1:

Memories held by an older generation faded—memories of concertinas used in twilight dances on deck under a tropical sky or of Royal Navy soldiers dancing a hornpipe to its sound—and succeeding generations saw only Captain Pugwash’s “Tom the Cabin Boy,” fictional Disney pirates, and Tinseltown crooners with fake squeezeboxes.

2010, Dan M[ichael] Worrall, “The Concertina at Sea”, in The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History, 3rd edition, volume 1, Fulshear, Tx.: Concertina Press, →ISBN, page 324, column 2:

(music, informal) An accordion or concertina.


Vienna horn

(music) A brass aerophone used mainly in Austria in the performance of orchestral and classical 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 (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

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

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.


kayagum

(music) Alternative spelling of gayageum


橫笛

/xɤŋ³⁵ ti³⁵/

/waːŋ²¹ tɛːk̚²⁻³⁵/

/xɤŋ³⁵ ti³⁵/

/waːŋ²¹ tɛːk̚²⁻³⁵/


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

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


ghaychak

(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.


quintern

(music) A type of four-stringed gittern, originating in Germany.


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.


goge

gṑgē (canonical masculine)
gṑgen (possessed-form)


candombe

en-noun

candombe (countable and uncountable, plural candombes)

Together, we watched locals and tourists practice their dance moves in the center, a converted warehouse whose walls were lined with candombe drums carved with images of slave ship hulls filled with chained human cargo.

2014 September 12, Michael T. Luongo, “Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(music) A type of drum used to accompany this music.


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)


цигулка

cigulka (romanization)
цигулка (indefinite singular)
цигулки (indefinite plural)
цигулката (definite singular unspecified)
цигулките (definite plural unspecified)
цигулкава (definite proximal singular)
цигулкиве (definite plural proximal)
цигулкана (definite distal singular)
цигулкине (definite distal plural)
цигулко (singular vocative)
цигулки (plural vocative)


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.


arquilaúde

(music) archlute (a large European string instrument)


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.


luteria

lutherie (the craft of making musical instruments)


sarinda

(music) A type of stringed instrument featuring anywhere from three to thirty strings and a hollow soundbox partially covered with an animal skin, played vertically with a bow, originating in the traditional music of India and Nepal.

serja

used mainly in reference to the instrument played by the Bodo people of Assam


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.


バイブ

vibrator (a device used for massage or sexual stimulation)


guitarrón

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


κανονάκι

head

κανονάκι • (kanonáki) n (plural κανονάκια)

kanonáki (romanization)
κανονάκια (plural)
κανονάκι (nominative singular)
κανονάκια (nominative plural)
κανονάκι (accusative singular)
κανονάκια (accusative plural)
κανονάκι (singular vocative)
κανονάκια (plural vocative)


haegeum

Borrowed from Korean 해금(奚琴) (haegeum). Doublet of xiqin.

Like clockwork, she reached for the haegeum that leaned against the main counter top. Jung-Soo held his breath as she prepared herself to play.

2017, Young-Im Lee, Forgotten Reflections: A War Story:

(music) A musical instrument (chordophone) with a hollow soundbox, two strings made from silk, and a rod-like neck, of traditional Korean origin.


μαντούρα

μαντούρα • (mantoúra) f (plural μαντούρες)

mantoúra (romanization)
μαντούρες (plural)
μαντούρα (nominative singular)
μαντούρες (nominative plural)
μαντούρας (genitive singular)
μαντουρών (genitive plural)
μαντούρα (accusative singular)
μαντούρες (accusative plural)
μαντούρα (singular vocative)
μαντούρες (plural vocative)

(Cretan, music) floghera (Cretan wind instrument)


μπαντούρα

μπαντούρα • (bantoúra) f (plural μπαντούρες)

bantoúra (romanization)
μπαντούρες (plural)
μπαντούρα (nominative singular)
μπαντούρες (nominative plural)
μπαντούρας (genitive singular)
μπαντουρών (genitive plural)
μπαντούρα (accusative singular)
μπαντούρες (accusative plural)
μπαντούρα (singular vocative)
μπαντούρες (plural vocative)

μαντούρα μαντούρα#Greek

(Cretan, music) Alternative form of μαντούρα (mantoúra)


King David's harp

en-noun

King David's harp (plural King David's harps)


kinnor

Just as the Kinor of King David played by itself when the north wind touched its strings, so too did Rabbi Nachman's heart fill with music when he beheld the forests, hills, brooks and other aspects of nature.

2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 235:

A stringed instrument of the Israelites.


kinnor

Borrowed from Hebrew כינור (kinór, “lyre”).


tricordia

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


ramkie

From Afrikaans ramkie, from Portuguese rabequinha (“little fiddle”).

(music) An improvised guitar-like string instrument made from a discarded oil can, with or without frets, most commonly with three or four strings made from either fishing line or a bicycle brake wire, originating in the folk music of Southern Africa.


church organ

(music) A large pipe organ installed in a Christian church.


eunuch flute

Now there was in Shakespeare's time a pipe called the eunuch flute. It was not an instrument that could generate sound but only a contrivance for imparting to the voice a trembling or buzzing sort of tone not unlike that which children produce by means of a piece of paper folded over a comb.

2011, Christopher Welch, Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other Flutes in Relation to Literature:

(music) A simple musical instrument consisting of a wooden tube with a hole in it, used like a modern kazoo.


tom-tom drum

(music) A cylindrical drum without snares, used as part of the modern drum kit.


kabosy

(music) A wooden box-shaped guitar-like musical instrument, most commonly with six strings and characterized by the use of partial frets, originating in traditional Malagasy music.


kacapi

Borrowed from Sundanese ᮊᮎᮕᮤ (kacapi, “zither”).

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


box zither

A zither with a trapezoidal or rectangular shaped sound box.


kobyz

(music) A stringed instrument traditionally made of a single piece of wood, with either two or four strings and played with a bow, of traditional Kazakh origin.


ondiola

Much of Scelsi’s output was created in an unusual way: he would improvise on a piano, a guitar, percussion instruments or, later in his career, an ondiola, a three-octave electronic instrument that could capture vibrato and microtonal intervals.

2015 September 20, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Argento Chamber Ensemble’s ‘Scelsi Rediscovered’”, in New York Times:

An electronic musical instrument, an Italian version of the clavioline.


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)


hand percussion

(music) Any percussion instrument that can be held in the hand.


hourglass drum

(music) A drum (membranophone) with an hourglass-like shape.


long drum

(music) A musical instrument characterized by extreme length, typically made out of an entire hollow tree trunk.


波羅

/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/pɔː⁵⁵ lɔː²¹/

/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/pɔː⁵⁵ lɔː²¹/

(dialectal Mandarin) wooden fish (Buddhist wooden percussion instrument)


кобза

ru-noun+

ко́бза or кобза́ • (kóbza or kobzá) f inan (genitive ко́бзы or кобзы́, nominative plural ко́бзы or кобзы́, genitive plural кобз)

ко́бза (canonical)
кобза́ (canonical)
kóbza (romanization)
kobzá (romanization)
ко́бзы (genitive)
кобзы́ (genitive)
ко́бзы (nominative plural)
кобзы́ (nominative plural)
кобз (genitive plural)
ко́бза (nominative singular)
кобза́ (nominative singular)
ко́бзы (nominative plural)
кобзы́ (nominative plural)
ко́бзы (genitive singular)
кобзы́ (genitive singular)
ко́бз (genitive plural)
ко́бзе (dative singular)
кобзе́ (dative singular)
ко́бзам (dative plural)
кобза́м (dative plural)
ко́бзу (accusative singular)
кобзу́ (accusative singular)
ко́бзы (accusative plural)
кобзы́ (accusative plural)
ко́бзой (instrumental singular)
ко́бзою (instrumental singular)
кобзо́й (instrumental singular)
кобзо́ю (instrumental singular)
ко́бзами (instrumental plural)
кобза́ми (instrumental plural)
ко́бзе (prepositional singular)
кобзе́ (prepositional singular)
ко́бзах (plural prepositional)
кобза́х (plural prepositional)
ко́бза (dated nominative singular)
кобза́ (dated nominative singular)
ко́бзы (dated nominative plural)
кобзы́ (dated nominative plural)
ко́бзы (dated genitive singular)
кобзы́ (dated genitive singular)
ко́бзъ (dated genitive plural)
ко́бзѣ (dated dative singular)
кобзѣ́ (dated dative singular)
ко́бзамъ (dated dative plural)
кобза́мъ (dated dative plural)
ко́бзу (accusative dated singular)
кобзу́ (accusative dated singular)
ко́бзы (accusative dated plural)
кобзы́ (accusative dated plural)
ко́бзой (dated instrumental singular)
ко́бзою (dated instrumental singular)
кобзо́й (dated instrumental singular)
кобзо́ю (dated instrumental singular)
ко́бзами (dated instrumental plural)
кобза́ми (dated instrumental plural)
ко́бзѣ (dated prepositional singular)
кобзѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
ко́бзахъ (dated plural prepositional)
кобза́хъ (dated plural prepositional)

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

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


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)