accordion

→ Irish: acordán

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แอกคอร์เดียน

→ Thai: แอกคอร์เดียน (ɛ́k-kɔɔ-dîian)

→ Thai: แอกคอร์เดียน (ɛ́k-kɔɔ-dîian)

First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.

Coordinate term: concertina

A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.

A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

akkordeon

a small, portable, keyed wind instrument


spring

en-verb

spring (third-person singular simple present springs, present participle springing, simple past sprang or sprung, past participle sprung)

springs (present singular third-person)
springing (participle present)
sprang (past)
sprung (past)
sprung (participle past)
spring (infinitive)

From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *spre(n)ǵʰ- (“to move, race, spring”), from *sper- (“to jerk, twitch, snap, shove”).
Cognates
* Saterland Frisian springe
* West Frisian springe
* Dutch springen
* German Low German springen
* German springen
* Danish springe
* Swedish springa
* Norwegian springe
* Faroese springa
* Icelandic springa (“to burst, explode”).
Other possible cognates include Lithuanian spreñgti (“to push (in)”), Old Church Slavonic прѧсти (pręsti, “to spin, to stretch”), Latin spargere (“to sprinkle, to scatter”), Ancient Greek σπέρχω (spérkhō, “to hasten”), Sanskrit स्पृहयति (spṛháyati, “to be eager”). Some newer senses derived from the noun.

cog

...so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 19:25:

Home I would go,
 But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes.
 Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping Creditors,
 Watchfull as Fowlers when their Game will ſpring; […]

1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
To appear.

Who hath diuided a water-course for the ouerflowing of waters? or a way for the lightning of thunder,
To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 38:25–27:

Commerce! beneath whose poison-breathing shade
 No solitary virtue dares to spring, […]

1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto V”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 61:

Dr. Sigmund Freud... says that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.

1936, Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 42:

There was moisture in the ground, and from it sprang a million flowers, gold and blue and brown and red.

1974, James Albert Michener, Centennial, page 338:

Foxglove sprang tall and purple among the trees.

2006, N. Roberts, Morrigann's Cross, section VI:

(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
To grow, to sprout.
(UK dialectal) To mature.

To move or burst forth.
To grow, to sprout.
To mature.

(figurative) To arise, to come into existence.

To move or burst forth.
To arise, to come into existence.

He hit the gas and the car sprang to life.

(intransitive) To move or burst forth.
(sometimes figurative) To enliven.

Deer spring with their hind legs, using their front hooves to steady themselves.

...into helle spring...

c. 1250, Life of St Margaret, Trin. Col. MS B.14.39 (323), f. 22v

Ye kynge... sprange out of his chare and resseyuyd them worshipfully.

1474, William Caxton, transl., Game and Playe of the Chesse, iii, vii, 141:

...the Mountain Stag, that springs
From Height to Height, and bounds along the Plains,
Nor has a Master to restrain his Course...

...out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

1827, Clement Clarke Moore, (A Visit from St. Nicholas):

However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground—a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.

1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes:

Reporters sprang to the conclusion that the speech would make detailed new commitments...

(figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.

To move or burst forth.
To move with great speed and energy.

He sprang from peasant stock.

From this basis, a first-order difference equation for the evolution of capital per worker is found, and the time path of the economy springs from this equation.

2008, George McCandless, The ABCs of RBCs, Harvard University Press, page 7:

(usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from

To move or burst forth.
To be born, descend, or originate from

(obsolete) To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted.

...þe wound þat was springand with huge stremes of blude...

c. 1540, Livy, translated by John Bellenden, History of Rome, Vol. I, i, xxii, p. 125:

The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.


spring

en-noun

spring (countable and uncountable, plural springs)

Arlington Springs Man
Beijing Spring
Berber Spring
ColdSpring
Croatian Spring
Damascus Spring
Operation Spring Awakening
Operation Spring Cleanup
Operation Spring of Youth
Prague Spring
Spring Palace
Spring of Nations
Springbal
Springfest
The Spring Offensive
spring

From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lente, lentin, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

ааԥын

season between winter and summer in temperate climates

Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw:
How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!

1697, John Dryden, Virgil's Aeneis, Bk. xi, ll. 437–8

Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:

(uncountable) Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly


flute

→ Irish: fliúit

→ Welsh: ffliwt

From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
* Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”)
* From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”)
* Imitative.
Doublet of flauta and fluyt.

Western concert flute

as a specific instrument, a transverse, side-blown flute

edge-blown aerophone

as a general category of musical instruments

The breathing flute's ſoft notes are heard around, / And the ſhril trumpets mix their ſilver ſound; / The vaulted roofs vvith echoing muſic ring, / Theſe touch the vocal ſtops, and thoſe the trembling ſtring.

1709, Alexander Pope, “January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale, from Chaucer”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 217:

The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.

2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in The New York Times:

After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.

2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:

Western concert flute
Western concert flute

(music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.


woodwind

The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.

2009 February 28, Jon Pareles, “Turf-Sharing, When Indie Met Classical”, in The New York Times:

The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.

2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times:

(music) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.


open

en-adj

open (comparative more open or (phonetics) opener, superlative most open or (phonetics) openest)

more open (comparative)
opener (comparative)
most open (superlative)
openest (superlative)

closed-source

antonym(s) of “with a free license and no proprietary components”

Adjective from Middle English open, from Old English open (“open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opan, from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”).
Cognates
* Scots apen (“open”)
* Saterland Frisian eepen (“open”)
* West Frisian iepen (“open”)
* Dutch open (“open”)
* Low German open, apen (“open”)
* German offen (“open”)
* Danish åben (“open”)
* Swedish öppen (“open”)
* Norwegian Bokmål åpen (“open”)
* Norwegian Nynorsk open (“open”)
* Icelandic opinn (“open”)
 Compare also Latin supinus (“on one's back, supine”), Albanian hap (“to open”). Related to up.
Verb from Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”, adjective). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eepenje (“to open”), West Frisian iepenje (“to open”), Dutch openen (“to open”), German öffnen (“to open”), Danish åbne (“to open”), Swedish öppna (“to open”), Norwegian Bokmål åpne (“to open”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic opna (“to open”). Related to English up.
Noun from Middle English open (“an aperture or opening”), from the verb. In the sports sense, however, a shortening of “open competition”.

inh

at church every time the doors swing open

(music) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.


trumpet

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.

In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally. For all reverbation lasts for a short time, and produces new sounds which mix with those which are coming in.

1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:

(music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.


trumpet

English: trumpet

Scots: trumpet

From Old French trompette; equivalent to trumpe + -et.


tuba

From Latin tuba (“tube, trumpet, military trumpet”), first borrowed as a historic term in the 18th century. The name of the modern instrument was borrowed in the 19th century from German Tuba (“tuba”), originally Baß-Tuba (literally “bass tuba”), from the same Latin source. The Latin term is of obscure ultimate origin, but is possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”), see there.

bor

One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:

A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.


tuba

tuba (nominative singular)
tuby (nominative plural)
tuby (genitive singular)
tub (genitive plural)
tubě (dative singular)
tubám (dative plural)
tubu (accusative singular)
tuby (accusative plural)
tubo (singular vocative)
tuby (plural vocative)
tubě (locative singular)
tubách (locative plural)
tubou (instrumental singular)
tubami (instrumental plural)


tuba

tubák (plural)
tuba (nominative singular)
tubák (nominative plural)
tubát (accusative singular)
tubákat (accusative plural)
tubának (dative singular)
tubáknak (dative plural)
tubával (instrumental singular)
tubákkal (instrumental plural)
tubáért (causal-final singular)
tubákért (causal-final plural)
tubává (singular translative)
tubákká (plural translative)
tubáig (singular terminative)
tubákig (plural terminative)
tubaként (essive-formal singular)
tubákként (essive-formal plural)
tubában (inessive singular)
tubákban (inessive plural)
tubán (singular superessive)
tubákon (plural superessive)
tubánál (adessive singular)
tubáknál (adessive plural)
tubába (illative singular)
tubákba (illative plural)
tubára (singular sublative)
tubákra (plural sublative)
tubához (allative singular)
tubákhoz (allative plural)
tubából (elative singular)
tubákból (elative plural)
tubáról (delative singular)
tubákról (delative plural)
tubától (ablative singular)
tubáktól (ablative plural)
tubáé (singular)
tubáké (plural)
tubáéi (singular)
tubákéi (plural)
tubám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
tubáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
tubád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
tubáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tubája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
tubái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tubánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
tubáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
tubátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
tubáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tubájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
tubáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


tuba

la-noun

tuba f (genitive tubae); first declension

tubae (genitive)
tuba (nominative singular)
tubae (nominative plural)
tubae (genitive singular)
tubārum (genitive plural)
tubae (dative singular)
tubīs (dative plural)
tubam (accusative singular)
tubās (accusative plural)
tubā (ablative singular)
tubīs (ablative plural)
tuba (singular vocative)
tubae (plural vocative)

→ English: tuba

→ French: tuba

→ Galician: tuba

→ Italian: tuba

→ Russian: ту́ба (túba)

Possibly connected to tībia (“shinbone, reed-pipe”) with similarities in meaning and form.

(literally, music) long trumpet over 1 meter in length, especially war-trumpet


tuba

tubka (diminutive)
tuba (nominative singular)
tuby (nominative plural)
tuby (genitive singular)
tub (genitive plural)
tubie (dative singular)
tubom (dative plural)
tubę (accusative singular)
tuby (accusative plural)
tubą (instrumental singular)
tubami (instrumental plural)
tubie (locative singular)
tubach (locative plural)
tubo (singular vocative)
tuby (plural vocative)


tuba

(music) tuba (a large brass musical instrument)


cowbell

en-noun

cowbell (countable and uncountable, plural cowbells)

This song would sound better with the addition of a cowbell.

It's good, but it really needs more cowbell.

(music) A musical instrument, typically found without a clapper.


cowbell

Unadapted borrowing from English cowbell.

ubor

(music) cowbell (a percussion instrument)


keyboard

keyboard (nominative singular)
keyboardy (nominative plural)
keyboardu (genitive singular)
keyboardów (genitive plural)
keyboardowi (dative singular)
keyboardom (dative plural)
keyboard (accusative singular)
keyboardy (accusative plural)
keyboardem (instrumental singular)
keyboardami (instrumental plural)
keyboardzie (locative singular)
keyboardach (locative plural)
keyboardzie (singular vocative)
keyboardy (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English keyboard.

keyboard (electronic device with keys of a musical keyboard)


triangle

/ˈtɹaɪəŋɡəl/

/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/

/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English triangle, from Old French triangle, from Latin triangulum, noun use of adjective triangulus (“three-cornered, having three angles”), from trēs (“three”) + angulus (“corner, angle”), equivalent to tri- + angle.

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

(music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.

After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.

1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147:

(rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.


triangle

Borrowed from Latin triangulum. By surface analysis, tri- + angle.

(music) triangle (percussion instrument)


yak

a traditional Korean flute used in court music


xylophone

From xylo- (“of wood”) + -phone (“sound”).

All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

percussion idiophone
percussion idiophone

(music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.


xylophone

→ Russian: ксилофо́н (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)

→ Romanian: xilofon

→ Turkish: ksilofon


bongo

en-verb

bongo (third-person singular simple present bongos, present participle bongoing, simple past and past participle bongoed)

bongos (present singular third-person)
bongoing (participle present)
bongoed (participle past)
bongoed (past)

From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.


bongo

bongo (nominative singular)
bongot (nominative plural)
bongo (accusative nominative singular)
bongot (accusative nominative plural)
bongon (accusative genitive singular)
bongot (accusative genitive plural)
bongon (genitive singular)
bongojen (genitive plural)
bongoa (partitive singular)
bongoja (partitive plural)
bongossa (inessive singular)
bongoissa (inessive plural)
bongosta (elative singular)
bongoista (elative plural)
bongoon (illative singular)
bongoihin (illative plural)
bongolla (adessive singular)
bongoilla (adessive plural)
bongolta (ablative singular)
bongoilta (ablative plural)
bongolle (allative singular)
bongoille (allative plural)
bongona (essive singular)
bongoina (essive plural)
bongoksi (singular translative)
bongoiksi (plural translative)
bongotta (abessive singular)
bongoitta (abessive plural)
bongoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
bongoni (nominative singular)
bongoni (nominative plural)
bongoni (accusative nominative singular)
bongoni (accusative nominative plural)
bongoni (accusative genitive singular)
bongoni (accusative genitive plural)
bongoni (genitive singular)
bongojeni (genitive plural)
bongoani (partitive singular)
bongojani (partitive plural)
bongossani (inessive singular)
bongoissani (inessive plural)
bongostani (elative singular)
bongoistani (elative plural)
bongooni (illative singular)
bongoihini (illative plural)
bongollani (adessive singular)
bongoillani (adessive plural)
bongoltani (ablative singular)
bongoiltani (ablative plural)
bongolleni (allative singular)
bongoilleni (allative plural)
bongonani (essive singular)
bongoinani (essive plural)
bongokseni (singular translative)
bongoikseni (plural translative)
bongottani (abessive singular)
bongoittani (abessive plural)
bongoineni (comitative plural)
bongosi (nominative singular)
bongosi (nominative plural)
bongosi (accusative nominative singular)
bongosi (accusative nominative plural)
bongosi (accusative genitive singular)
bongosi (accusative genitive plural)
bongosi (genitive singular)
bongojesi (genitive plural)
bongoasi (partitive singular)
bongojasi (partitive plural)
bongossasi (inessive singular)
bongoissasi (inessive plural)
bongostasi (elative singular)
bongoistasi (elative plural)
bongoosi (illative singular)
bongoihisi (illative plural)
bongollasi (adessive singular)
bongoillasi (adessive plural)
bongoltasi (ablative singular)
bongoiltasi (ablative plural)
bongollesi (allative singular)
bongoillesi (allative plural)
bongonasi (essive singular)
bongoinasi (essive plural)
bongoksesi (singular translative)
bongoiksesi (plural translative)
bongottasi (abessive singular)
bongoittasi (abessive plural)
bongoinesi (comitative plural)
bongomme (nominative singular)
bongomme (nominative plural)
bongomme (accusative nominative singular)
bongomme (accusative nominative plural)
bongomme (accusative genitive singular)
bongomme (accusative genitive plural)
bongomme (genitive singular)
bongojemme (genitive plural)
bongoamme (partitive singular)
bongojamme (partitive plural)
bongossamme (inessive singular)
bongoissamme (inessive plural)
bongostamme (elative singular)
bongoistamme (elative plural)
bongoomme (illative singular)
bongoihimme (illative plural)
bongollamme (adessive singular)
bongoillamme (adessive plural)
bongoltamme (ablative singular)
bongoiltamme (ablative plural)
bongollemme (allative singular)
bongoillemme (allative plural)
bongonamme (essive singular)
bongoinamme (essive plural)
bongoksemme (singular translative)
bongoiksemme (plural translative)
bongottamme (abessive singular)
bongoittamme (abessive plural)
bongoinemme (comitative plural)
bongonne (nominative singular)
bongonne (nominative plural)
bongonne (accusative nominative singular)
bongonne (accusative nominative plural)
bongonne (accusative genitive singular)
bongonne (accusative genitive plural)
bongonne (genitive singular)
bongojenne (genitive plural)
bongoanne (partitive singular)
bongojanne (partitive plural)
bongossanne (inessive singular)
bongoissanne (inessive plural)
bongostanne (elative singular)
bongoistanne (elative plural)
bongoonne (illative singular)
bongoihinne (illative plural)
bongollanne (adessive singular)
bongoillanne (adessive plural)
bongoltanne (ablative singular)
bongoiltanne (ablative plural)
bongollenne (allative singular)
bongoillenne (allative plural)
bongonanne (essive singular)
bongoinanne (essive plural)
bongoksenne (singular translative)
bongoiksenne (plural translative)
bongottanne (abessive singular)
bongoittanne (abessive plural)
bongoinenne (comitative plural)
bongonsa (nominative singular)
bongonsa (nominative plural)
bongonsa (accusative nominative singular)
bongonsa (accusative nominative plural)
bongonsa (accusative genitive singular)
bongonsa (accusative genitive plural)
bongonsa (genitive singular)
bongojensa (genitive plural)
bongoaan (partitive singular)
bongoansa (partitive singular)
bongojaan (partitive plural)
bongojansa (partitive plural)
bongossaan (inessive singular)
bongossansa (inessive singular)
bongoissaan (inessive plural)
bongoissansa (inessive plural)
bongostaan (elative singular)
bongostansa (elative singular)
bongoistaan (elative plural)
bongoistansa (elative plural)
bongoonsa (illative singular)
bongoihinsa (illative plural)
bongollaan (adessive singular)
bongollansa (adessive singular)
bongoillaan (adessive plural)
bongoillansa (adessive plural)
bongoltaan (ablative singular)
bongoltansa (ablative singular)
bongoiltaan (ablative plural)
bongoiltansa (ablative plural)
bongolleen (allative singular)
bongollensa (allative singular)
bongoilleen (allative plural)
bongoillensa (allative plural)
bongonaan (essive singular)
bongonansa (essive singular)
bongoinaan (essive plural)
bongoinansa (essive plural)
bongokseen (singular translative)
bongoksensa (singular translative)
bongoikseen (plural translative)
bongoiksensa (plural translative)
bongottaan (abessive singular)
bongottansa (abessive singular)
bongoittaan (abessive plural)
bongoittansa (abessive plural)
bongoineen (comitative plural)
bongoinensa (comitative plural)

From English bongo, from American Spanish bongó.

Bongoja soitetaan myös Lähi-idässä, Turkissa ja arabimaissa.

Bongos are also used as an instrument in the Middle East, Turkey and Arab countries.


bongo

bongo (Afro-Cuban percussion instrument)


balalaika

en-noun

balalaika (plural balalaikas or balalaiki)

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


balalaika

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


balalaika

head

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

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


conch

en-verb

conch (third-person singular simple present conches, present participle conching, simple past and past participle conched)

conches (present singular third-person)
conching (participle present)
conched (participle past)
conched (past)

From Latin concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē). Doublet of concha.

To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.


bänyun

bänyuns (nominative plural)
bänyun (nominative singular)
bänyuns (nominative plural)
bänyuna (genitive singular)
bänyunas (genitive plural)
bänyune (dative singular)
bänyunes (dative plural)
bänyuni (accusative singular)
bänyunis (accusative plural)
o bänyun! (singular vocative)
o bänyuns! (plural vocative)
bänyunu (predicative singular)
bänyunus (plural predicative)


bell

→ Fiji Hindi: belo

→ Japanese: ベル (beru)

→ Korean: 벨 (bel)

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

HEAR the sledges with the bells —
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

(music) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.


string

en-noun

string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)

Tok Pisin: string

→ Dutch: string

→ Finnish: stringit

→ French: string

→ German: String

desc

מחרוז//מַחְרֹזֶת

→ Hebrew: מחרוז /מַחְרֹזֶת (makhrózet) (semantic loan)

→ Japanese: ストリング (sutoringu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: streng (semantic loan)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: streng (semantic loan)

→ Polish: stringi

→ Portuguese: estrém; string

→ Swedish: string

From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).

cog

στραγγαλόομαι

弦

any similar long, thin and flexible object

弓弦

ゆづる, yuzuru, ゆみづる, yumizuru, ゆんづる, yunzuru

a violinstring

a bowstring

(countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.

(music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.


box

Etymology tree
Latin buxusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buhs
Old English box
Middle English box
English box
From Middle English box (“box tree; boxwood”), from Old English box (“box tree”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhs (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), from Latin buxus (“box tree; thing made from boxwood”), buxum (“box tree; boxwood”), possibly from πύξος (púxos, “box tree; boxwood”).

shimshir

shrub or tree of the genus Buxus — see also box tree

Evenin’, folks. Thought y’all might lak uh lil music this evenin’ so Ah brought long mah box.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 11, in Their Eyes were Watching God: A Novel, Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, Philadelphia, Pa., London: J.B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC; Illini Books edition, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1978, →ISBN, page 153:

(music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.


tamburen

tamburens (nominative plural)
tamburen (nominative singular)
tamburens (nominative plural)
tamburena (genitive singular)
tamburenas (genitive plural)
tamburene (dative singular)
tamburenes (dative plural)
tambureni (accusative singular)
tamburenis (accusative plural)
o tamburen! (singular vocative)
o tamburens! (plural vocative)
tamburenu (predicative singular)
tamburenus (plural predicative)


acoustic

Borrowed from Medieval Latin acousticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκουστῐκός (akoustĭkós, “of or for hearing”), from ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjectival suffix). Sense 4 ("autistic") was popularized on TikTok in late October 2023.

صَوْتِيّ

pertaining to hearing or the science of sounds

acoustic guitar, acoustic piano

(music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof.

акустичен

producing or produced without electrical amplification


violin

→ Japanese: バイオリン (baiorin)

→ Korean: 바이올린 (baiollin)

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

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

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

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

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


violin

violin (indefinite nominative singular)
violins (genitive indefinite singular)
violinen (definite nominative singular)
violinens (definite genitive singular)
violiner (indefinite nominative plural)
violiners (genitive indefinite plural)
violinerna (definite nominative plural)
violinernas (definite genitive plural)


guitar

→ Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)

→ Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)

→ Cantonese: 結他 /结他 (git3 taa1)

→ Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)

→ Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)

→ Irish: giotár

→ Japanese: ギター (gitā)

→ Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)

→ Hokkien: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)

→ Korean: 기타 (gita)

→ Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)

→ Scottish Gaelic: giotàr

→ Sidamo: giitare

→ Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)

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

der

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)

Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.

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

The band is looking for a new guitar player.

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

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


guitar

head

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

guitaren (definite singular)
guitarer (indefinite plural)
guitar (indefinite nominative singular)
guitaren (definite nominative singular)
guitarer (indefinite nominative plural)
guitarerne (definite nominative plural)
guitars (genitive indefinite singular)
guitarens (definite genitive singular)
guitarers (genitive indefinite plural)
guitarernes (definite genitive plural)


piano

en-noun

piano (plural pianos or (archaic) pianoes)

pianos (plural)
pianoes (archaic plural)

Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. Doublet of llano, plain, and plane.

The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.

She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.

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


piano

sq-noun

piano f (plural piano, definite pianoja, definite plural pianot)

piano (plural)
pianoja (definite)
pianot (definite plural)


piano

az-noun

piano (definite accusative pianonu, plural pianolar)

pianonu (accusative definite)
pianolar (plural)
piano (nominative singular)
pianolar (nominative plural)
pianonu (accusative definite singular)
pianoları (accusative definite plural)
pianoya (dative singular)
pianolara (dative plural)
pianoda (locative singular)
pianolarda (locative plural)
pianodan (ablative singular)
pianolardan (ablative plural)
pianonun (definite genitive singular)
pianoların (definite genitive plural)
pianom (first-person nominative possessive singular)
pianolarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
pianon (nominative possessive second-person singular)
pianoların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
pianosu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
pianoları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
pianomuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
pianolarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
pianonuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
pianolarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
pianosu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
pianoları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
pianomu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
pianolarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
pianonu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
pianolarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
pianosunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
pianolarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
pianomuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
pianolarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
pianonuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
pianolarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
pianosunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
pianolarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
pianoma (dative first-person possessive singular)
pianolarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
pianona (dative possessive second-person singular)
pianolarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
pianosuna (dative possessive singular third-person)
pianolarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
pianomuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
pianolarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
pianonuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
pianolarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
pianosuna (dative plural possessive third-person)
pianolarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
pianomda (first-person locative possessive singular)
pianolarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
pianonda (locative possessive second-person singular)
pianolarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
pianosunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
pianolarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
pianomuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
pianolarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
pianonuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
pianolarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
pianosunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
pianolarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
pianomdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
pianolarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
pianondan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
pianolarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
pianosundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
pianolarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
pianomuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
pianolarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
pianonuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
pianolarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
pianosundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
pianolarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
pianomun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
pianolarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
pianonun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
pianolarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
pianosunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
pianolarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
pianomuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
pianolarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
pianonuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
pianolarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
pianosunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
pianolarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


piano

piano (nominative singular)
piana (nominative plural)
piana (genitive singular)
pian (genitive plural)
pianu (dative singular)
pianům (dative plural)
piano (accusative singular)
piana (accusative plural)
piano (singular vocative)
piana (plural vocative)
pianě (locative singular)
pianu (locative singular)
pianech (locative plural)
pianem (instrumental singular)
piany (instrumental plural)


piano

nl-noun

piano f or n (plural piano's, diminutive pianootje n)

piano's (plural)
pianootje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from French piano, from Italian piano, shortening of pianoforte.


piano

eo-head

piano (accusative singular pianon, plural pianoj, accusative plural pianojn)

pianon (accusative singular)
pianoj (plural)
pianojn (accusative plural)


piano

piano (nominative singular)
pianot (nominative plural)
piano (accusative nominative singular)
pianot (accusative nominative plural)
pianon (accusative genitive singular)
pianot (accusative genitive plural)
pianon (genitive singular)
pianojen (genitive plural)
pianoa (partitive singular)
pianoja (partitive plural)
pianossa (inessive singular)
pianoissa (inessive plural)
pianosta (elative singular)
pianoista (elative plural)
pianoon (illative singular)
pianoihin (illative plural)
pianolla (adessive singular)
pianoilla (adessive plural)
pianolta (ablative singular)
pianoilta (ablative plural)
pianolle (allative singular)
pianoille (allative plural)
pianona (essive singular)
pianoina (essive plural)
pianoksi (singular translative)
pianoiksi (plural translative)
pianotta (abessive singular)
pianoitta (abessive plural)
pianoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
pianoni (nominative singular)
pianoni (nominative plural)
pianoni (accusative nominative singular)
pianoni (accusative nominative plural)
pianoni (accusative genitive singular)
pianoni (accusative genitive plural)
pianoni (genitive singular)
pianojeni (genitive plural)
pianoani (partitive singular)
pianojani (partitive plural)
pianossani (inessive singular)
pianoissani (inessive plural)
pianostani (elative singular)
pianoistani (elative plural)
pianooni (illative singular)
pianoihini (illative plural)
pianollani (adessive singular)
pianoillani (adessive plural)
pianoltani (ablative singular)
pianoiltani (ablative plural)
pianolleni (allative singular)
pianoilleni (allative plural)
pianonani (essive singular)
pianoinani (essive plural)
pianokseni (singular translative)
pianoikseni (plural translative)
pianottani (abessive singular)
pianoittani (abessive plural)
pianoineni (comitative plural)
pianosi (nominative singular)
pianosi (nominative plural)
pianosi (accusative nominative singular)
pianosi (accusative nominative plural)
pianosi (accusative genitive singular)
pianosi (accusative genitive plural)
pianosi (genitive singular)
pianojesi (genitive plural)
pianoasi (partitive singular)
pianojasi (partitive plural)
pianossasi (inessive singular)
pianoissasi (inessive plural)
pianostasi (elative singular)
pianoistasi (elative plural)
pianoosi (illative singular)
pianoihisi (illative plural)
pianollasi (adessive singular)
pianoillasi (adessive plural)
pianoltasi (ablative singular)
pianoiltasi (ablative plural)
pianollesi (allative singular)
pianoillesi (allative plural)
pianonasi (essive singular)
pianoinasi (essive plural)
pianoksesi (singular translative)
pianoiksesi (plural translative)
pianottasi (abessive singular)
pianoittasi (abessive plural)
pianoinesi (comitative plural)
pianomme (nominative singular)
pianomme (nominative plural)
pianomme (accusative nominative singular)
pianomme (accusative nominative plural)
pianomme (accusative genitive singular)
pianomme (accusative genitive plural)
pianomme (genitive singular)
pianojemme (genitive plural)
pianoamme (partitive singular)
pianojamme (partitive plural)
pianossamme (inessive singular)
pianoissamme (inessive plural)
pianostamme (elative singular)
pianoistamme (elative plural)
pianoomme (illative singular)
pianoihimme (illative plural)
pianollamme (adessive singular)
pianoillamme (adessive plural)
pianoltamme (ablative singular)
pianoiltamme (ablative plural)
pianollemme (allative singular)
pianoillemme (allative plural)
pianonamme (essive singular)
pianoinamme (essive plural)
pianoksemme (singular translative)
pianoiksemme (plural translative)
pianottamme (abessive singular)
pianoittamme (abessive plural)
pianoinemme (comitative plural)
pianonne (nominative singular)
pianonne (nominative plural)
pianonne (accusative nominative singular)
pianonne (accusative nominative plural)
pianonne (accusative genitive singular)
pianonne (accusative genitive plural)
pianonne (genitive singular)
pianojenne (genitive plural)
pianoanne (partitive singular)
pianojanne (partitive plural)
pianossanne (inessive singular)
pianoissanne (inessive plural)
pianostanne (elative singular)
pianoistanne (elative plural)
pianoonne (illative singular)
pianoihinne (illative plural)
pianollanne (adessive singular)
pianoillanne (adessive plural)
pianoltanne (ablative singular)
pianoiltanne (ablative plural)
pianollenne (allative singular)
pianoillenne (allative plural)
pianonanne (essive singular)
pianoinanne (essive plural)
pianoksenne (singular translative)
pianoiksenne (plural translative)
pianottanne (abessive singular)
pianoittanne (abessive plural)
pianoinenne (comitative plural)
pianonsa (nominative singular)
pianonsa (nominative plural)
pianonsa (accusative nominative singular)
pianonsa (accusative nominative plural)
pianonsa (accusative genitive singular)
pianonsa (accusative genitive plural)
pianonsa (genitive singular)
pianojensa (genitive plural)
pianoaan (partitive singular)
pianoansa (partitive singular)
pianojaan (partitive plural)
pianojansa (partitive plural)
pianossaan (inessive singular)
pianossansa (inessive singular)
pianoissaan (inessive plural)
pianoissansa (inessive plural)
pianostaan (elative singular)
pianostansa (elative singular)
pianoistaan (elative plural)
pianoistansa (elative plural)
pianoonsa (illative singular)
pianoihinsa (illative plural)
pianollaan (adessive singular)
pianollansa (adessive singular)
pianoillaan (adessive plural)
pianoillansa (adessive plural)
pianoltaan (ablative singular)
pianoltansa (ablative singular)
pianoiltaan (ablative plural)
pianoiltansa (ablative plural)
pianolleen (allative singular)
pianollensa (allative singular)
pianoilleen (allative plural)
pianoillensa (allative plural)
pianonaan (essive singular)
pianonansa (essive singular)
pianoinaan (essive plural)
pianoinansa (essive plural)
pianokseen (singular translative)
pianoksensa (singular translative)
pianoikseen (plural translative)
pianoiksensa (plural translative)
pianottaan (abessive singular)
pianottansa (abessive singular)
pianoittaan (abessive plural)
pianoittansa (abessive plural)
pianoineen (comitative plural)
pianoinensa (comitative plural)


piano

Borrowed from Italian piano. Doublet of plain and plan.

Il joue du piano avec compétence.

Je n’aime pas le piano. Je préfère le football.
Hein ! Quoi ! Et tu me dis ça à moi, le grand professeur Trompette ? Tiens ! Répète ta leçon cinq fois ! Non, dix fois !
Je déteste le piano !

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

I don’t like the piano. I like football more.
Huh? What? And you’re telling that to me, the great professor Trumpet? Alright then! Repeat what you’ve learned five times! No, ten times!
I hate the piano!


piano

From Latin plānus. Compare Sicilian chianu.


piano

ms-noun

piano (Jawi spelling ڤيانو, plural piano-piano, informal 1st possessive pianoku, 2nd possessive pianomu, 3rd possessive pianonya)

ڤيانو (Jawi)
piano-piano (plural)
pianoku (first-person informal possessive)
pianomu (possessive second-person)
pianonya (possessive third-person)


piano

Borrowed from English piano, short form of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). The Italian word piano is from Latin plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-.


piano

Borrowed from English piano and French piano.


piano

head

piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano or pianoer, definite plural pianoa or pianoene)

pianoet (definite singular)
piano (indefinite plural)
pianoer (indefinite plural)
pianoa (definite plural)
pianoene (definite plural)


piano

pianoet (definite singular)
piano (indefinite plural)
pianoa (definite plural)


piano

→ Hunsrik: Piano

Borrowed from Italian piano, short form of pianoforte. Doublet of plano, chão, and porão.


piano

sk-noun

piano n (genitive singular piana, nominative plural pianá, genitive plural pián, declension pattern of mesto)

piana (genitive singular)
pianá (nominative plural)
pián (genitive plural)
mesto (declension-pattern-of)
piano (nominative singular)
pianá (nominative plural)
piana (genitive singular)
pián (genitive plural)
pianu (dative singular)
pianám (dative plural)
piano (accusative singular)
pianá (accusative plural)
piane (locative singular)
pianách (locative plural)
pianom (instrumental singular)
pianami (instrumental plural)


piano

→ Tagalog: piyano

→ Waray-Waray: piyano

Clipping of pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte.


piano

piano class IX (canonical)
piano class X (plural)


piano

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


piano

piano (nominative singular)
pianod (nominative plural)
pianon (accusative singular)
pianod (accusative plural)
pianon (genitive singular)
pianoiden (genitive plural)
pianod (partitive singular)
pianoid (partitive plural)
pianon (essive-instructive singular)
pianoin (essive-instructive plural)
pianoks (singular translative)
pianoikš (plural translative)
pianos (inessive singular)
pianoiš (inessive plural)
pianospäi (elative singular)
pianoišpäi (elative plural)
pianoho (illative singular)
pianoihe (illative plural)
pianol (adessive singular)
pianoil (adessive plural)
pianolpäi (ablative singular)
pianoilpäi (ablative plural)
pianole (allative singular)
pianoile (allative plural)
pianota (abessive singular)
pianoita (abessive plural)
pianonke (comitative singular)
pianoidenke (comitative plural)
pianodme (prolative singular)
pianoidme (plural prolative)
pianonno (approximative approximative-i singular)
pianoidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
pianonnoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
pianoidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
pianonnopäi (egressive singular)
pianoidennopäi (egressive plural)
pianohosai (singular terminative terminative-i)
pianoihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
pianolesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
pianoilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
pianossai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
pianohopäi (additive additive-i singular)
pianoihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
pianolepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
pianoilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)


piano

pianoau (plural)
pianos (plural)
piano
biano (soft)
mhiano
phiano


organ

→ Korean: 오르간 (oreugan)

→ Maori: ōkana

→ Vietnamese: oóc-gan

From Middle English organe, from Old French organe, from Latin organum, from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “an instrument, implement, tool, also an organ of sense or apprehension, an organ of the body, also a musical instrument, an organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-. Doublet of organon, organum, and orgue.

der

He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

(music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.


organ

pl-noun

organ m inan (related adjective organowy)

organowy (adjective)
organ (nominative singular)
organy (nominative plural)
organu (genitive singular)
organów (genitive plural)
organowi (dative singular)
organom (dative plural)
organ (accusative singular)
organy (accusative plural)
organem (instrumental singular)
organami (instrumental plural)
organie (locative singular)
organach (locative plural)
organie (singular vocative)
organy (plural vocative)

(in the plural) organ, pipe organ (largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds called organ pipes, by direct mechanical action)


nut

→ Japanese: ナット (natto)

From Middle English nute, note, from Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts (“nut”), from a root *knu- possibly shared with Proto-Celtic *knūs and Latin nux (“nut”). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European (substrate) origin.
See also West Frisian nút, Dutch noot, German Nuss, Danish nød, Swedish nöt, Norwegian nøtt.

dió

walnut in particular and an element in the name of some other nuts

dióféle

literally: ’walnut-like’, the family of this fruit

walnuts, hazelnuts/peanuts, chestnuts, and related fruits

even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while

(music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.

yläsatula

musical instruments: small piece that holds the strings at the proper spacing


bass

A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso (“low”).

SATB

Initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass.

The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.

(music) An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.


bass

bassen (definite singular)
basser (indefinite plural)
bassene (definite plural)

(music) short for bassgitar (bass guitar) or kontrabass (double bass)


bass

bassen (definite singular)
bassar (indefinite plural)
bassane (definite plural)


pipe

→ Bengali: পাইপ (paip)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: پيپ (pēp, bēb, “smoking pipe”), پايپ (pāyp, bāyb, “medium of transportation (sense 2.1)”)

→ Hindi: पाइप (pāip)

→ Japanese: パイプ (paipu)

→ Korean: 파이프 (paipeu)

→ Malay: paip

→ Maori: paipa

→ Russian: пайп (pajp)

→ Urak Lawoi': ปาเฮะ (pahëq)

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,
The summer's gone and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.

1913, “Danny Boy: Song Adapted from an Old Irish Air”, Fred[eric] E[dward] Weatherly (lyrics), New York, N.Y., London: Boosey & Co […], →OCLC, page 1:

(music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.


pipe

English: pipe (see there for further descendants)

Scots: pipe

Yola: peeps (plural)

Inherited from Old English pīpe, from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā; reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa; some senses are from Old French pipe.

A pipe; a piece of tubing used as a channel (often for fluids):

A pipe (musical instrument) or a similar wind instrument.

(rare) A pipe as part of a musical instrument (e.g. bagpipes)


和

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (和):
* → Japanese: 和(か) (ka)
* → Korean: 화(和) (hwa)
* → Vietnamese: hoà (和)

→ Thai: ฮั้ว (húua)

→ Vietnamese: hùa

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡoːl, *ɡoːls): phonetic 禾 (OC *ɡoːl) + semantic 口 (“mouth”) – harmony. The original version was 龢, with the radical of the flute 𠎤 (> 龠) in its either archaic or contracted version perhaps to indicate the abstract concept of harmony through harmony in music.
; “and; with”
; “Japanese”

Han compound

(music) An ancient mouth organ similar to the sheng, but smaller; no longer used.


和

Classifier for the number of times a dose of traditional Chinese medicine is boiled.


和

和牌


品

CJKV/code

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

→ Vietnamese: phím (“fret; key”)

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


嘂

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kiːws): semantic 㗊 + phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw).

Han compound

(music) ancient wind instrument similar to an ocarina


塤

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qʰon): semantic 土 + phonetic 員 (OC *ɢon, *ɢun).

Han compound

(music, historical) egg-shaped flute made of clay or ceramic


弓

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

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE), with a phonetic spelling of 由美 ⟨yumi₁⟩, */yumʲi/. A surface analysis suggests a combination of Old Japanese 弓 (yu, “bow”) + suffixing element mi, phonologically distinct from Old Japanese 身 (mi₂ /*mɨ/, “body”) but otherwise of uncertain derivation.

梓弓

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

破魔弓

a traditional Shintō ceremonial bow for dispel evil

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

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

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


luik

luige (genitive)
luike (partitive)
luik (nominative singular)
luiged (nominative plural)
luik (accusative nominative singular)
luiged (accusative nominative plural)
luige (accusative genitive singular)
luiged (accusative genitive plural)
luige (genitive singular)
luikede (genitive plural)
luike (partitive singular)
luiki (partitive plural)
luikesid (partitive plural)
luike (illative singular)
luigesse (illative singular)
luikedesse (illative plural)
luigisse (illative plural)
luiges (inessive singular)
luikedes (inessive plural)
luigis (inessive plural)
luigest (elative singular)
luikedest (elative plural)
luigist (elative plural)
luigele (allative singular)
luikedele (allative plural)
luigile (allative plural)
luigel (adessive singular)
luikedel (adessive plural)
luigil (adessive plural)
luigelt (ablative singular)
luikedelt (ablative plural)
luigilt (ablative plural)
luigeks (singular translative)
luikedeks (plural translative)
luigiks (plural translative)
luigeni (singular terminative)
luikedeni (plural terminative)
luigena (essive singular)
luikedena (essive plural)
luigeta (abessive singular)
luikedeta (abessive plural)
luigega (comitative singular)
luikedega (comitative plural)


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntisayzer)

sintetizues

music: an electronic keyboard instrument

سِنْثِسَيْزَر

music: an electronic instrument module without a keyboard

(music) An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.


敔

an ancient Chinese percussion instrument in the shape of a wooden tiger with a serrated back, played by running a bamboo whisk across it to mark the endings of musical sections


柷

a large wooden box-shaped trough, played with a pestle as a percussion instrument in Chinese ritual music


桐

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

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

from the wood of the paulownia used as the soundboard

from the markings of paulownia crests on the coins

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


cornet

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-cornet.wav

A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.


cornet

→ English: cornet

→ Switzerland German: Cornet

Il tenait à la main gauche un cornet semblable à celui dont usaient les postillons ; en cas de péril, l’alarme serait donnée au patron qui tenait la barre à l’arrière.

2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès, published 2012, page 17:

In his left hand he held a horn like those used by post riders; in case of danger, the alarm would be given to the owner who was at the forward rail.


cornet

English: cornet

Borrowed from Old French cornet; equivalent to corne (“callus”) + -et.


琴

→ Burmese: ခင် (hkang)

→ English: qin

→ Thai: ขิม (kǐm) (via Min Nan)

/kʰim²²⁻²²⁵/

/kʰim²²⁻²²⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡrɯm): semantic 珡 + phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm).

Han compound

珡
𤦡
𤩟
琹
𨨖
𨪖
𩰔
䦦
𤫍
𨫹
䥅
䥆
𤫒

(music) qin (“Chinese zithers”), referring to any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most famously the guqin

口琴 ― kǒuqín ― harmonica

風琴／风琴

馬頭琴／马头琴

(music) collective name for certain musical instruments, usually of string or keyboard types, such as piano, organ, violin, cello, huqin, accordion, harmonica, etc.

三角琴

練琴／练琴 [Cantonese] ― lin⁶ kam⁴ [Jyutping] ― to practise playing the piano

I learned to play the piano for two years.

我學過兩年琴。

我学过两年琴。

(music, specifically) piano (Classifier: 部 c)


琴

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

琴瑟

qin and se →; kinshitsu, marital harmony"”


瑟

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *smriɡ, *smriɡ): semantic 珡 (“musical instrument”) + phonetic 必 (OC *pliɡ). 珡 has been simplified into the unrelated 玨.

Han compound

(music) the se, an ancient Chinese bridge zither, usually with 25 strings


瑟

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


磬

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (磬):
* → Japanese: 磬(きょう) (kyō); 磬(けい) (kei)
* → Korean: 경(磬) (gyeong)
* → Vietnamese: khánh (磬)

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 殸 + 石 (“stone”).


竹

Characters in the same phonetic series (竹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – two bamboo stalks, with leaves. Earlier forms resembled 个 + 个, current form resembles rather ケ + ケ, or 亇 + 亇.
See also the original version of 散.
Compare Proto-Tai *b.twuːkᴰ (“bamboo strip for tying or weaving”), whence Thai ตอก (dtɔ̀ɔk, “bamboo strip”).

cog

(music) musical instrument made of bamboo


竺

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tuːɡ, *tuːɡ, *tuɡ): phonetic 𥫗 (OC *tuɡ) + semantic 二 ― thick.

Han compound

musical instrument
musical instrument#English

(historical, music) Name of an ancient musical instrument.


竽

(historical) the yu, a wind instrument used in ancient China


竽

From Middle Chinese 竽 (MC hju). Compare modern Mandarin 竽 (yú).

This instrument fell out of use for 雅楽 (gagaku, “court music”) in the mid-Heian period, and was later reconstructed after World War II based in part on artifacts at the Shōsōin.

a woodwind instrument introduced to Japan from China during the Nara period, similar to a 笙 (shō, “a kind of free-reed woodwind instrument”), but larger and one octave lower in pitch

to play a bass koto to someone who likes the u

竽を好むに瑟を鼓す: → to do something that doesn't suit a person's taste


笙

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (笙):
* → Japanese: 笙(しょう) (shō); 笙(そう) (sō)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sreŋ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 生 (OC *sʰleːŋ, *sreŋs).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鳴 (OC *mreŋ, “to make a sound”), 鈴 (OC *reːŋ, “bell”), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

inh

(music) sheng (a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes)


笙

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

→ English: sho

/ɕau/ → /ɕɔː/ → /ɕoː/
From Middle Chinese 笙 (MC sraeng). The goon reading, so likely the original reading as first borrowed from Middle Chinese. Compare modern Mandarin 笙 (shēng).
The shō was developed from the Chinese shēng that was introduced to Japan during the Nara period.

a free-reed woodwind musical instrument used in Japanese court music, consisting of a mouthpiece and seventeen pipes, each similar to an organ pipe

笙歌

singing to a sho accompaniment; to sing to a sho accompaniment; song sung to a sho accompaniment

笙窟

cave and pilgrimage destination in central Nara Prefecture


笛

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'ɯːwɢ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 由 (OC *lɯw).
Cognate with 籥 (OC *lowɢ, “bamboo flute”) (Baxter, 1992).


笛

⟨puye⟩ → */puje/ → /ɸue/ → /fue/
From Old Japanese, first cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.
Likely related to the verb 吹く (fuku, “to blow”).

(music) a side-blown flute, as opposed to end-blown instruments such as the 篳篥 (hichiriki)


笛

From Middle Chinese 笛 (MC dek). The 漢音 (kan'on, literally “Han sound”), so likely a later borrowing.
First cited to a text from the 1400s. This reading appears to have fallen out of use.

(music, archaic, possibly obsolete) a flute, particularly the Chinese side-blown flute


笛

From a corruption of Middle Chinese 笛 (MC dek).
First cited to a text from 1241.


筊

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw).


筑

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *tuɡ, *duɡ): phonetic 竹 (OC *tuɡ, “bamboo”) + 𢀜 (“to hold”).
Also simplified from 築 (elimination of 木).
; “Guiyang”

Han compound

𥬑
𥬶
𥬾
𥬑
𥬶
𥬾
𣽆
𣵸

The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

Zhì Yì Shuǐ zhīshàng, jì zǔ, qǔ dào, Gāo Jiànlí jí zhú, Jīng Kē hè ér gē, wèi biànzhǐ zhī shēng, shì jiē chuílèi tìqì.

至易水之上，既祖，取道，高漸離擊筑，荊軻和而歌，為變徵之聲，士皆垂淚涕泣。

至易水之上，既祖，取道，高渐离击筑，荆轲和而歌，为变徵之声，士皆垂泪涕泣。

(music) an ancient zither-like instrument


箏

CJKV/code

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

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

Han compound

古箏

古筝


箏

English: koto

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

com

koto: a Japanese zither derived from the Chinese guzheng

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


箏

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

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


箏

箏 (canonical)
Sō (romanization)
Sau (romanization)
さう (hiragana historical)


箏

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

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

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


管

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (管):
* → Japanese: 管(かん) (kan)
* → Korean: 관(管) (gwan)
* → Vietnamese: quản (管)

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

Han compound

(music) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood

(music, by extension) any wind instrument


管

Fourth grade kyōiku kanji (romanization)


管

管 (canonical)
kan (romanization)
kwan (romanization)
くわん (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 管 (kuɑn^X, “pipe, tube”).


管

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).

(military) Short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue, “a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife”).


篞

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

Han compound

(music) ancient medium-sized wind instrument


篪

(historical) bamboo transverse close-ended flute used in Chinese court music


簫

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

Han compound

(music) xiao, a vertical, notched, end-blown bamboo flute used since ancient times in Chinese traditional and classical music

(Cantonese, Northern Min, Eastern Min) transverse flute


簫

簫 (canonical)
shō (romanization)
seu (romanization)
せう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 簫 /箫 (sew, “xiao (Chinese flute)”).


籥

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

Han compound

I grasp a flute with my left hand; I hold a pheasant's feather in my right hand.

The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

左手執籥、右手秉翟。

左手执籥、右手秉翟。

(archaic) an ancient notched vertical bamboo flute with three or six fingerholes, used in Confucian ritual music and dance


缶

Pictogram (象形) – an earthenware pot with a lid. See also the bottom part of the original versions of 由.
Unrelated to the top component of 鬱, in which it represents a stylized man (大).


胡

→ English: Hu, Hoo, Wu, Woo, Oh

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

阿胡拉·馬茲達

Āhúlā Mǎzīdá

阿胡拉·马兹达

Āhúlā Mǎzīdá

Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China

Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong

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


號

→ Zhuang: heuh, hauh

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws): phonetic 号 (OC *ɦlaːws) + 虎 (“tiger”).
Originally an ideogram (指事) of a tiger and a line representing its roar, hence exhaled air while roaring. Later forms added 口 (“mouth”) or 言 (“speech”) to emphasize the act of crying or calling. The original meaning was "to roar; to shout". 号 derives from 口 and the line 丂.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)aw (“to call”) (Schuessler, 2007, STEDT). Compare Kinnauri ku, Anong go, and Burmese ခေါ် (hkau). The extension of the meaning ‘shout, call’ to ‘ask, request’ is parallel to 呼 (hū).
Pronunciation 1 is the exopassive derivation of pronunciation 2, literally "what is called".


tres

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

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


角

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (角):
* → Japanese: 角(かく) (kaku)
* → Korean: 각(角) (gak)
* → Vietnamese: giác (角)

→ Khmer: កាក់ (kak)
→ English: kak

→ Thai: กั๊ก (gák)

→ Vietnamese: góc

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Characters in the same phonetic series (角) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a horn. A conservative version is 𧢲. Similar but unrelated to 甬, 用, and the bottom part of 備.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəw (“horn; angle; corner”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྭ (rwa, “horn”), Garo grong (“horn”), Jingpho nrung (“horn”), Chepang रोङः (roŋʔ, “horn”), 觡 (OC *kraːɡ, “antler”). The Tibeto-Burman *-ŋ final variant is reflected in 觥 (OC *kʷraːŋ, “drinking vessel made from animal horn”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly also related to 鹿 (OC *b·roːɡ, “deer”) (Sagart, 1999).
A derivative is 餃 (“stuffed dumpling”), named for its horn-like shape (Norman, 1988).
It is probably unrelated with Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (“horn”) ( < *ḱerh₂- (“horn”)) and Proto-Semitic *ḳarn- (“horn”) despite the phonological and semantic resemblance between the three.


鈴

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鈴):
* → Japanese: 鈴(れい) (rei); 鈴(りん) (rin)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *reːŋ): semantic 金 + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鳴 (OC *mreŋ, “to make a sound”), 笙 (OC *sreŋ), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).


鈴

Kagura suzu
Kojiki
Man'yōshū
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Suzu

From Old Japanese. First cited in the Kojiki of 712, and in the Man'yōshū of 759 with the phonetic spelling 須受 (suzu).
Possibly related to 涼しい (suzushii, “cool, refreshing”) and 涼む (suzumu, “cool off”).

女の目には鈴を張れ

otoko no me ni wa ito o hike, onna no me ni wa suzu o hare

神楽鈴

three-tier set of bells on a rod used in kagura dances

鐸: a large wind chime, a hanging bell with a clapper


錚

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰreːŋ): semantic 金 + phonetic 爭 (OC *ʔsreːŋ).

Han compound

alt. forms: 鉦 /钲 (zhēng)

(historical) an ancient type of percussion instrument, made of copper, bell-shaped, and narrow, used to pace the marching of armies


錞

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/

(historical) bronze bell-like cylindrical percussion instrument with a tiger or other animal-shaped handle, often used in conjunction with drums to command troops in war


鍂

(historical) an ancient musical instrument, or a class of musical instruments


鏞

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *loŋ): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 庸 (OC *loŋ).
(The pen name of Jin Yong, one of the most influential modern Chinese-language novelists, is created by the decomposition from 鏞 to 金 and 庸.)


鐃

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *rŋaːw): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 堯 (OC *ŋeːw).


鐃

鐃 (canonical)
nyō (romanization)
neu (romanization)
ねう (hiragana historical)

in ancient China, a gong used in the army to signal the drumming to stop

(Buddhism) a kind of gong used at Buddhist temples


鐃

鐃 (canonical)
dō (romanization)
dau (romanization)
だう (hiragana historical)


鐸

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'aːɡ): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 睪 (OC *neb, *laːɡ, *kuː).

Han compound

(historical) large bronze bell with a wooden or bronze clapper and a long handle, used for war and to announce proclamations


鑾

desc

→ Thai: พรวน (pruuan, “bell tied around the neck of an animal”)


阮

CJKV/code

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

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

Han compound

Ruan Ji (one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove)

阮籍

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

ruan (a Chinese long-necked fretted round-bodied plucked lute)


dord

Borrowed from Irish dord (“buzz, drone; dord”).

bor+

[…] there, after digging to a good depth, they find the Dord or great war-horn of Fionn, a blast on which brings “a flock of furious gigantic birds,” and a thigh of one of them is found to be as big as a sheep’s.

1869, “Folk-lore: Myths and Tales of Various Peoples”, in The London Quarterly & Holborn Review, volume 31, pages 62–63:

[…] the first album on which the dord and the didgeridoo could be heard together was entitled: ‘Two stories in One: (Natural Symphonies)’.

1994, Dirk Schellberg, Didgeridoo: Ritual Origins and Playing Techniques, →ISBN, page 46:

The dord, a form of horn with a sound like the Australian Aborigine’s didgeridoo, was clearly a sacred instrument of the Bronze Age […]

2002, Philip Carr-Gomm, Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 64:

(music) A type of ancient Irish war-horn.


se

(music) A type of ancient Chinese plucked zither.


tar

en-noun

tar (countable and uncountable, plural tars)

From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą (compare Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer), from Proto-Indo-European *derwo- (compare Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”)), from *dóru (“tree”). More at tree.

(uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.


tar

From Persian تار (târ). Doublet of tantra.

A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.


tar

A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.


tar

az-noun

tar (definite accusative tarı, plural tarlar)

tarı (accusative definite)
tarlar (plural)
tar (nominative singular)
tarlar (nominative plural)
tarı (accusative definite singular)
tarları (accusative definite plural)
tara (dative singular)
tarlara (dative plural)
tarda (locative singular)
tarlarda (locative plural)
tardan (ablative singular)
tarlardan (ablative plural)
tarın (definite genitive singular)
tarların (definite genitive plural)
tarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
tarlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
tarın (nominative possessive second-person singular)
tarların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
tarı (nominative possessive singular third-person)
tarları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
tarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
tarlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
tarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
tarlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
tarı (nominative plural possessive third-person)
tarları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
tarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
tarlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
tarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
tarlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
tarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
tarlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
tarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
tarlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
tarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
tarlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
tarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
tarlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
tarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
tarlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
tarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
tarlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
tarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
tarlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
tarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
tarlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
tarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
tarlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
tarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
tarlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
tarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
tarlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
tarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
tarlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
tarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
tarlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
tarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
tarlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
tarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
tarlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
tarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
tarlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
tarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
tarlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
tarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
tarlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
tarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
tarlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
tarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
tarlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
tarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
tarlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
tarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
tarlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
tarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
tarlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
tarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
tarlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
tarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
tarlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
tarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
tarlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
tarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
tarlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
tarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)
tarlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


鼓

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鼓):
* → Japanese: 鼓(こ) (ko)
* → Korean: 고(鼓) (go)
* → Vietnamese: cổ (鼓)

Wutunhua: guu

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 壴 (“drum”) + 支 (“hand holding drumstick”). Compare 殸. See also the right component of 段.
Area word; compare Proto-Tai *klɔŋᴬ (“drum”), Saek [script needed] (tlɔɔŋᴬ¹), Proto-Hlai *laŋ¹ (“drum”), Proto-Wa (*kloʔ, "bronze-drum") (Schuessler, 2007).
瞽 (OC *kʷaːʔ, “blind man; musician”) is a derivative.

Han compound

鼔
皷
𡔷
𪔐
𪔨
𪔎
𩉨
𩉲
𩉩
𩊉

仙人拍鼓有時錯，跤步踏差啥人無 / 仙人拍鼓有时错，跤步踏差啥人无

sian-jîn phah kó͘ iú sî chhò, kha-pō͘ ta̍h-chha siáⁿ-lâng bô

鼓手

His bells ring out k'in k'in;
His lutes, large and small, give their notes;
The tones of his organs and sounding stones are in unison.

Gǔ zhōng qīn qīn, gǔ sè gǔ qín. Shēng qìng tóngyīn.

鼓鐘欽欽，鼓瑟鼓琴。笙磬同音。

鼓钟钦钦，鼓瑟鼓琴。笙磬同音。

(literary) to play; to perform; to sound (a musical instrument)


鼓

/tudumi₁/ → /tudumi/ → /t͡sud͡zumi/ → /t͡suzumi/
From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE. From Proto-Japonic *tuntumi. Related to Okinawan 鼓 (chijin).

generic name for musical instruments with a leather head that can be struck.


龠

Pictogram (象形) – a bamboo Pan flute in which two mouths (吅) perhaps indicate the round top of the bamboo pipes. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added on top to show a mouth playing the instrument.
Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 品 + 侖, however his analysis does not match the original appearance. The bottom component is identical but unrelated to 冊 since it originally represents bamboo slips. The whole character is similar but unrelated to 侖.

yue (a Chinese musical instrument consisting of a bamboo tube that has three or other numbers of holes)


龠

ko-hanja

龠 • (yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune–Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

yak (romanization)
약 (hangeul)
yak (revised)
yak (McCune-Reischauer)
yak (Yale)


龣

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kroːɡ, *roːɡ): semantic 龠 + phonetic 彔 (OC *b·roːɡ).

Han compound

An ancient musical instrument used in the army.


bow

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognate with West Frisian boge, Dutch boog, German Bogen, Swedish båge.

strykstok

rod used for playing stringed instruments

(music) A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines


harp

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

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

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

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

Any instrument of the same musicological type.


harp

nl-noun

harp f or m (plural harpen, diminutive harpje n)

harpen (plural)
harpje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch harpe, from Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.


tangent

tangenten (definite singular)
tangenter (indefinite plural)
tangentene (definite plural)

From German Tangente, Tangens, ultimately from Latin tangēns.


tangent

tangenten (definite singular)
tangentar (indefinite plural)
tangentane (definite plural)


wind instrument

en-noun

wind instrument (plural wind instruments)

Coordinate term: stringed instrument

(music) Any musical instrument that produces sound when air flows through it.


Rhodes

en-proper noun

Rhodes (countable and uncountable, plural Rhodeses)

From rodes, the plural form of Middle English rode, from Old English rod, rodu.
The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification— was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.

Vermillion County
Vermillion County#English

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.

An unincorporated community in Bentley Township, Gladwin County, Michigan; named for Murry Bentley Rhodes.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Flathead County, Montana.


serpent

From Middle English serpent, from Old French serpent (“snake, serpent”), from Latin serpēns (“snake”), present active participle of serpere (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Italic *serpō, from Proto-Indo-European *serp-. In this sense, displaced native Old English nǣdre (“snake, serpent”), whence Modern English adder.
Compare Sanskrit सर्प (sarpa, “snake”), which is a descendant of the same Proto-Indo-European word as serpent.

(music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).


serpent

nl-noun

serpent f (plural serpenten, diminutive serpentje n)

serpenten (plural)
serpentje (diminutive neuter)

→ West Frisian: serpint

From Middle Dutch serpent, from Old French serpent (“snake, serpent”), from Latin serpēns (“snake”), from the verb serpō (“I creep, crawl”).


bari

A basic 17-piece jazz orchestra never uses more than one bari; to see four lined up in a row you'd usually have to go to an instrument repair shop.

2000 November 24, Neil Tesser, “Baritone Nation”, in Chicago Reader:

(colloquial, music) A baritone saxophone


violon

→ English: violon

→ Persian: ویولن (viyolon)

desc

→ Lao: ວີໂອລົງ (wī ʼō long)

→ Lao: ວີໂອລົງ (wī ʼō long)

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

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

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

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

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


drone

From Middle English drounen (“to roar, bellow”), from Proto-West Germanic *drunnjan, from Proto-Germanic *drunjaną (“to drone, roar, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“to roar, hum, drone”).
Cognate with Scots drune (“to drone, moan, complain”), Dutch dreunen (“to drone, boom, thud”), Low German drönen (“to drone, buzz, hum”), German dröhnen (“to roar, boom, rumble”), Danish drøne (“to roar, boom, peel out”), Swedish dröna (“to low, bellow, roar”), Icelandic drynja (“to roar”).

cog

(music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.


banjo

→ Esperanto: banĝo

→ Irish: bainseo

→ Japanese: バンジョー

→ Macedonian: бенџо (bendžo)

→ Mongolian: банжо (banžo)

→ Russian: банджо (bandžo)

→ Thai: แบนโจ (bɛɛn-joo)

→ Welsh: banjô

→ Yiddish: באַנדזשאָ (bandzho)

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

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


banjo

banjo (nominative singular)
banja (nominative plural)
banja (genitive singular)
banj (genitive plural)
banju (dative singular)
banjům (dative plural)
banjo (accusative singular)
banja (accusative plural)
banjo (singular vocative)
banja (plural vocative)
banju (locative singular)
banjech (locative plural)
banjem (instrumental singular)
banji (instrumental plural)


banjo

Borrowed from Danish banjo, from English banjo.


banjo

ms-noun

banjo (Jawi spelling بنجو, plural banjo-banjo, informal 1st possessive banjoku, 2nd possessive banjomu, 3rd possessive banjonya)

بنجو (Jawi)
banjo-banjo (plural)
banjoku (first-person informal possessive)
banjomu (possessive second-person)
banjonya (possessive third-person)


banjo

banjoen (definite singular)
banjoer (indefinite plural)
banjoene (definite plural)

From English banjo, 18th century black American rendition of bandore.


banjo

banjoen (definite singular)
banjoar (indefinite plural)
banjoane (definite plural)


banjo

Unadapted borrowing from English banjo, from bandore, from Spanish bandurria, from Latin pandūra, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra). Doublet of bandura and mandola.


banjo

banjo class IX (canonical)
banjo class X (plural)


banjo

banjo (indefinite nominative singular)
banjos (genitive indefinite singular)
banjon (definite nominative singular)
banjons (definite genitive singular)
banjor (indefinite nominative plural)
banjors (genitive indefinite plural)
banjorna (definite nominative plural)
banjornas (definite genitive plural)


banjo

banjos (plural)
banjoau (plural)
banjo
fanjo (soft)
manjo


banjo

head

banjo c (plural banjo's, diminutive banjoke)


manual

→ Japanese: マニュアル (manyuaru)

From Middle English manuel, from Old French manuel, from Late Latin manuāle (“handbook, manual”).


manual

manualen (definite singular)
manualer (indefinite plural)
manualene (definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin manualis, or English manual (“handbook”).


manual

manualen (definite singular)
manualar (indefinite plural)
manualane (definite plural)


bassoon

Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.

1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

The most convenient and natural order is, perhaps, the following: the upper staff may have the flute-part, because it has the highest notes, and, therefore, requires most room above the staff; then follow the parts for the hautboys, clarinets, horns, bassoons, tromboni, trumpets, and drums; the upper half of the page thus containing the wind-instruments: the lower half belongs to the violins, viola, voices, violoncello, and double base.

1834, Arnold Merrick, transl., Methods of Harmony, Figured Base, and Composition, translation of original by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, page 303:

After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.

2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:

A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.


horn

en-noun

horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)

From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”).
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.

cog

hunting horn

(countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

(informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.

рог

informal: generally, any brass wind instrument


horn

fo-noun

horn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)

horns (genitive singular)
horn (plural)
horn (indefinite nominative singular)
hornið (definite nominative singular)
horn (indefinite nominative plural)
hornini (definite nominative plural)
horn (accusative indefinite singular)
hornið (accusative definite singular)
horn (accusative indefinite plural)
hornini (accusative definite plural)
horni (dative indefinite singular)
horninum (dative definite singular)
hornum (dative indefinite plural)
hornunum (dative definite plural)
horns (genitive indefinite singular)
hornsins (definite genitive singular)
horna (genitive indefinite plural)
hornanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.


horn

is-noun

horn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)

horns (genitive singular)
horn (nominative plural)
horn (indefinite nominative singular)
hornið (definite nominative singular)
horn (indefinite nominative plural)
hornin (definite nominative plural)
horn (accusative indefinite singular)
hornið (accusative definite singular)
horn (accusative indefinite plural)
hornin (accusative definite plural)
horni (dative indefinite singular)
horninu (dative definite singular)
hornum (dative indefinite plural)
hornunum (dative definite plural)
horns (genitive indefinite singular)
hornsins (definite genitive singular)
horna (genitive indefinite plural)
hornanna (definite genitive plural)


horn

English: horn

Scots: horn

Yola: hoorn

From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).


horn

hornet (definite singular)
horn (indefinite plural)
horna (definite plural)
hornene (definite plural)


horn

hornet (definite singular)
horn (indefinite plural)
horna (definite plural)


horn

horn (indefinite nominative singular)
horns (genitive indefinite singular)
hornet (definite nominative singular)
hornets (definite genitive singular)
horn (indefinite nominative plural)
horns (genitive indefinite plural)
hornen (definite nominative plural)
hornens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.


lyre

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

der

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

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


lyre

→ Romanian: liră

→ Turkish: lir


lyre

lyra (definite singular)
lyren (definite singular)
lyrer (indefinite plural)
lyrene (definite plural)


lyre

lyra (definite singular)
lyrer (indefinite plural)
lyrene (definite plural)


saxophone

Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.

I played the saxophone in high school.

A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

saxofoon

a musical instrument of the woodwind family


harmonia

harmonia (nominative singular)
harmonie (nominative plural)
harmonii (genitive singular)
harmonii (genitive plural)
harmonij (archaic genitive plural)
harmonii (dative singular)
harmoniom (dative plural)
harmonię (accusative singular)
harmonie (accusative plural)
harmonią (instrumental singular)
harmoniami (instrumental plural)
harmonii (locative singular)
harmoniach (locative plural)
harmonio (singular vocative)
harmonie (plural vocative)

(countable) concertina (musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends)


timbre

fro-noun

timbre oblique singular, m (oblique plural timbres, nominative singular timbres, nominative plural timbre)

timbre oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
timbres (oblique plural)
timbres (nominative singular)
timbre (nominative plural)


cembalo

Borrowed from Italian cembalo, from Latin. Doublet of cymbal.


cembalo

cembalo (nominative singular)
cembala (nominative plural)
cembala (genitive singular)
cembal (genitive plural)
cembalu (dative singular)
cembalům (dative plural)
cembalo (accusative singular)
cembala (accusative plural)
cembalo (singular vocative)
cembala (plural vocative)
cembalu (locative singular)
cembalech (locative plural)
cembalem (instrumental singular)
cembaly (instrumental plural)