stop

en-verb

stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)

stops (present singular third-person)
stopping (participle present)
stopped (participle past)
stopped (past)
stop (infinitive)

continue

antonym(s) of “to cause to cease moving”

continue

antonym(s) of “to cause to come to an end”

→ Finnish: stop

→ French: stop

→ Greek: στοπ (stop)

→ Hungarian: stop

→ Irish: stop

→ Italian: stop

→ Latvian: stop

→ Ottoman Turkish: استوپ (istop)

→ Polish: stop

→ Portuguese: stop

→ Russian: стоп (stop)

→ Spanish: stop

→ Welsh: stopio

→ Tok Pisin: stap

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.

megakadályoz

to cause to cease progressing, to prevent

if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging

(music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

tepışten

music: to regulate the sounds by shortening the vibrating part


stop

The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

rekisteritappi

music: knob or pin to regulate the flow of air in an organ

(music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.


呂

desc

→ English: Lu, Lü, Lui, Lv, Lyu, Loo, Luy, Lou, Lew

Pictogram (象形) of two vertebrae.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ra-t (“bone”) (STEDT).


凡

(music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note fa (4).


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

خَطّ

line or mark made on a surface by an implement for drawing, writing, etc.

Or can he desire a nobler or a fuller Argument either for the softest Aires or the loudest Echoes, for the smoothest or briskest strokes of his Pindaric Lyre?

1667 March 22 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Epistolary Correspondence.] To Abraham Cowley, Esq.”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, part I, page 175:

(music) A bow or pluck of a string or strings of a stringed instrument; also, the manner in which a musical instrument is played; hence, a melody, a tune.


咇

甩beat [Cantonese] ― lat¹ bit¹ [Jyutping] ― to be out of sync with the rhythm

(Hong Kong Cantonese, music) beat; rhythm


gender

id-noun

gêndèr (plural gender-gender, first-person possessive genderku, second-person possessive gendermu, third-person possessive gendernya)

gêndèr (canonical)
gender-gender (plural)
genderku (first-person possessive)
gendermu (possessive second-person)
gendernya (possessive third-person)

Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.


vapaa

fi-adj

vapaa (comparative vapaampi, superlative vapain)

vapaampi (comparative)
vapain (superlative)
vapaa (nominative singular)
vapaat (nominative plural)
vapaa (accusative nominative singular)
vapaat (accusative nominative plural)
vapaan (accusative genitive singular)
vapaat (accusative genitive plural)
vapaan (genitive singular)
vapaiden (genitive plural)
vapaitten (genitive plural)
vapaata (partitive singular)
vapaita (partitive plural)
vapaassa (inessive singular)
vapaissa (inessive plural)
vapaasta (elative singular)
vapaista (elative plural)
vapaaseen (illative singular)
vapaisiin (illative plural)
vapaihin (illative plural rare)
vapaalla (adessive singular)
vapailla (adessive plural)
vapaalta (ablative singular)
vapailta (ablative plural)
vapaalle (allative singular)
vapaille (allative plural)
vapaana (essive singular)
vapaina (essive plural)
vapaaksi (singular translative)
vapaiksi (plural translative)
vapaatta (abessive singular)
vapaitta (abessive plural)
vapain (instructive plural)
vapaine (comitative plural)
vapaani (nominative singular)
vapaani (nominative plural)
vapaani (accusative nominative singular)
vapaani (accusative nominative plural)
vapaani (accusative genitive singular)
vapaani (accusative genitive plural)
vapaani (genitive singular)
vapaideni (genitive plural)
vapaitteni (genitive plural)
vapaatani (partitive singular)
vapaitani (partitive plural)
vapaassani (inessive singular)
vapaissani (inessive plural)
vapaastani (elative singular)
vapaistani (elative plural)
vapaaseeni (illative singular)
vapaisiini (illative plural)
vapaihini (illative plural rare)
vapaallani (adessive singular)
vapaillani (adessive plural)
vapaaltani (ablative singular)
vapailtani (ablative plural)
vapaalleni (allative singular)
vapailleni (allative plural)
vapaanani (essive singular)
vapainani (essive plural)
vapaakseni (singular translative)
vapaikseni (plural translative)
vapaattani (abessive singular)
vapaittani (abessive plural)
vapaineni (comitative plural)
vapaasi (nominative singular)
vapaasi (nominative plural)
vapaasi (accusative nominative singular)
vapaasi (accusative nominative plural)
vapaasi (accusative genitive singular)
vapaasi (accusative genitive plural)
vapaasi (genitive singular)
vapaidesi (genitive plural)
vapaittesi (genitive plural)
vapaatasi (partitive singular)
vapaitasi (partitive plural)
vapaassasi (inessive singular)
vapaissasi (inessive plural)
vapaastasi (elative singular)
vapaistasi (elative plural)
vapaaseesi (illative singular)
vapaisiisi (illative plural)
vapaihisi (illative plural rare)
vapaallasi (adessive singular)
vapaillasi (adessive plural)
vapaaltasi (ablative singular)
vapailtasi (ablative plural)
vapaallesi (allative singular)
vapaillesi (allative plural)
vapaanasi (essive singular)
vapainasi (essive plural)
vapaaksesi (singular translative)
vapaiksesi (plural translative)
vapaattasi (abessive singular)
vapaittasi (abessive plural)
vapainesi (comitative plural)
vapaamme (nominative singular)
vapaamme (nominative plural)
vapaamme (accusative nominative singular)
vapaamme (accusative nominative plural)
vapaamme (accusative genitive singular)
vapaamme (accusative genitive plural)
vapaamme (genitive singular)
vapaidemme (genitive plural)
vapaittemme (genitive plural)
vapaatamme (partitive singular)
vapaitamme (partitive plural)
vapaassamme (inessive singular)
vapaissamme (inessive plural)
vapaastamme (elative singular)
vapaistamme (elative plural)
vapaaseemme (illative singular)
vapaisiimme (illative plural)
vapaihimme (illative plural rare)
vapaallamme (adessive singular)
vapaillamme (adessive plural)
vapaaltamme (ablative singular)
vapailtamme (ablative plural)
vapaallemme (allative singular)
vapaillemme (allative plural)
vapaanamme (essive singular)
vapainamme (essive plural)
vapaaksemme (singular translative)
vapaiksemme (plural translative)
vapaattamme (abessive singular)
vapaittamme (abessive plural)
vapainemme (comitative plural)
vapaanne (nominative singular)
vapaanne (nominative plural)
vapaanne (accusative nominative singular)
vapaanne (accusative nominative plural)
vapaanne (accusative genitive singular)
vapaanne (accusative genitive plural)
vapaanne (genitive singular)
vapaidenne (genitive plural)
vapaittenne (genitive plural)
vapaatanne (partitive singular)
vapaitanne (partitive plural)
vapaassanne (inessive singular)
vapaissanne (inessive plural)
vapaastanne (elative singular)
vapaistanne (elative plural)
vapaaseenne (illative singular)
vapaisiinne (illative plural)
vapaihinne (illative plural rare)
vapaallanne (adessive singular)
vapaillanne (adessive plural)
vapaaltanne (ablative singular)
vapailtanne (ablative plural)
vapaallenne (allative singular)
vapaillenne (allative plural)
vapaananne (essive singular)
vapainanne (essive plural)
vapaaksenne (singular translative)
vapaiksenne (plural translative)
vapaattanne (abessive singular)
vapaittanne (abessive plural)
vapainenne (comitative plural)
vapaansa (nominative singular)
vapaansa (nominative plural)
vapaansa (accusative nominative singular)
vapaansa (accusative nominative plural)
vapaansa (accusative genitive singular)
vapaansa (accusative genitive plural)
vapaansa (genitive singular)
vapaidensa (genitive plural)
vapaittensa (genitive plural)
vapaataan (partitive singular)
vapaatansa (partitive singular)
vapaitaan (partitive plural)
vapaitansa (partitive plural)
vapaassaan (inessive singular)
vapaassansa (inessive singular)
vapaissaan (inessive plural)
vapaissansa (inessive plural)
vapaastaan (elative singular)
vapaastansa (elative singular)
vapaistaan (elative plural)
vapaistansa (elative plural)
vapaaseensa (illative singular)
vapaisiinsa (illative plural)
vapaihinsa (illative plural rare)
vapaallaan (adessive singular)
vapaallansa (adessive singular)
vapaillaan (adessive plural)
vapaillansa (adessive plural)
vapaaltaan (ablative singular)
vapaaltansa (ablative singular)
vapailtaan (ablative plural)
vapailtansa (ablative plural)
vapaalleen (allative singular)
vapaallensa (allative singular)
vapailleen (allative plural)
vapaillensa (allative plural)
vapaanaan (essive singular)
vapaanansa (essive singular)
vapainaan (essive plural)
vapainansa (essive plural)
vapaakseen (singular translative)
vapaaksensa (singular translative)
vapaikseen (plural translative)
vapaiksensa (plural translative)
vapaattaan (abessive singular)
vapaattansa (abessive singular)
vapaittaan (abessive plural)
vapaittansa (abessive plural)
vapaineen (comitative plural)
vapainensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *vapada, probably borrowed from early Proto-Slavic *svabadā (later *svoboda (“freedom”)).

(music) unreleased, not pressed (e.g. of a string)


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


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.

Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres.

1980, Harvey E[lliott] White, Donald H. White, “Wind Instruments”, in Physics and Music: The Science of Musical Sound, Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders College Pub./Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 245; republished Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2014, →ISBN, part 3 (Musical Instruments), section 18.7 (The Theater Organ), page 245:

(music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.


合

(music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note low sol (5̣).

(music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note low sol (5̣).


商

Antares
Cao Wei
Chen dynasty
Du Yu
Eastern Han dynasty
Eastern Wei
Eastern Wu
Eastern Zhou dynasty
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Han dynasty
Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Jin dynasty (265–420)
Liang dynasty
Liao dynasty
Liu Song dynasty
Ming dynasty
Northern Qi
Northern Wei
Northern Zhou
Northern and Southern dynasties
Qin dynasty
Qing dynasty
Shang dynasty
Shu Han
Song dynasty
Southern Qi
Southern and Northern dynasties
Spring and Autumn period
Sui dynasty
Tang dynasty
Three Kingdoms
Warring States period
Western Han dynasty
Western Liao
Western Wei
Western Xia
Western Zhou dynasty
Xia dynasty
Xin dynasty
Yuan dynasty
Zhou dynasty

Unknown. Possibly an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) depicting placing and burning firewood (辛, here used as an abbreviation of 薪 (“firewood”)) on a pedestal (丙) to worship Antares.
口 was added later when this character started being used for the name of a dynasty.
Traditionally it is considered that 商人 (shāngrén) is so named because this term originally refers to people from Shang dynasty, who tend to do business.
From 賒 (OC *hljaː) plus terminative suffix *-ŋ (Schuessler, 2007). See there for further etymology.

謪
𠘾
𠹧
𠼬
𠾃
𠿧
𡂦
𡃬
𡄚
𡅟
𥫐
𧶜
𧷞
𨝗

Shāng means zhāng 'to expand'; the yin-fluid begins to expand [while] the yang-fuild begins to contract; ….

Ban Gu, The Comprehensive Discussions in the White Tiger Hall, 79 CE, translated based on Tjan Tjoe Som's version

Shāng zhě, zhāng yě, yīnqì kāi zhāng, yángqì shǐ jiàng yě;.......

商者，張也，陰氣開張，陽氣始降也；……。

商者，张也，阴气开张，阳气始降也；……。

(music) the second note in the Chinese pentatonic scale


嚼

𪚅
噍
𡁻
噭
𥬬
焦
啁

(Taiwanese Hokkien, music, dated) paiban (played by hitting it on one's palm or knee)

(Taiwanese Hokkien, music, dated) sound of a paiban

(Taiwanese Hokkien, music, dated) to play the paiban


反

(music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note fa (4).


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


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.


均

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷin): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 匀 (OC *ɢʷin).


e

fi-decl-table

e (type maa)

e (nominative singular)
e:t (nominative plural)
e:n (genitive singular)
e:iden (genitive plural)
e:itten (genitive plural)
e:tä (partitive singular)
e:itä (partitive plural)
e (accusative singular)
e:n (accusative singular)
e:t (accusative plural)
e:ssä (inessive singular)
e:issä (inessive plural)
e:stä (elative singular)
e:istä (elative plural)
e:hen (illative singular)
e:ihin (illative plural)
e:llä (adessive singular)
e:illä (adessive plural)
e:ltä (ablative singular)
e:iltä (ablative plural)
e:lle (allative singular)
e:ille (allative plural)
e:nä (essive singular)
e:inä (essive plural)
e:ksi (singular translative)
e:iksi (plural translative)
e:ttä (abessive singular)
e:ittä (abessive plural)
e:in (instructive plural)
e:ineen (comitative plural)


drag

en-noun

drag (countable and uncountable, plural drags)

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

cog

(countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.

“Our music is not like some other types where the energy is back and forth – music considered drag is like giving up oneself, to be pulled and controlled,” she says.

2010 March 8, Scott Wright, quoting Heather Marlatt, “Scene and heard: Drag”, in The Guardian:

Whatever the appellation, these artists are doing some amazing stuff. Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed.

2010 September 29, Paul Lester, “New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO”, in The Guardian:

They call this music drag because it's like dance music dragged down by the ponderous weight of existence (there's a Balam Acab track called Heavy Living Things); they call it witch house because it haunts you long after you stop listening.

2010 December 2, Paul Lester, “New band of the day – No 922: Balam Acab”, in The Guardian:

In your own words, what is drag or witch house music?

2011 January 24, David Wicik, “Exorcising the Ghost: oOoOO breaks down the buzz about “drag””, in Newcity:


drag

en-verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

drags (present singular third-person)
dragging (participle present)
dragged (participle past)
dragged (past)
drug (dialectal participle past)
drug (dialectal past)

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

(intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.


上

(music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note do (1).

(music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note do (1).


cycle

→ Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of en, chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, and wheel (see there for more).

pyörä

bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle etc. — see also bicycle

The interval cycle C4 consists of the pitch classes 0, 4 and 8; when starting on E, it is realised as the pitches E, G# and C.

(music) In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.


嬰

From Middle Chinese 嬰 (MC 'jieng).
The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

嬰ヘ ― eie ― F-sharp


和

Sino-Xenic (和):
* → 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.
; “and; with”
; “Japanese”

Han compound

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


home

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

cog

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

(music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.


尺

(music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note re (2).

(music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note re (2).


宮

Chinese folk religion
Mazu
Qing conquest of Taiwan
Qing dynasty
ancestor worship

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 宀 + 呂: many rooms under a roof — a mansion.
STEDT compares it with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house”); see there for hypothesized cognates.

Gōng means róng ‘to contain’; hán ‘to hold’; it contains and holds the four seasons

Gōng zhě, róng yě, hán yě, hánróng sìshí zhě yě.

宮者，容也，含也，含容四時者也。

宫者，容也，含也，含容四时者也。

(music) the first note of the Chinese pentatonic scale


宮

宮 (canonical)
kyū (romanization)
kyuu (romanization)
きゆう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 宮 (MC kjuwng, “dwelling; palace; note on a scale”). Compare modern Min Nan reading kiong.

ltc-l

(traditional music of China and Japan) the keynote or tonic of a musical scale, such as do in the do re mi scale notation of solfège


弦

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡeːn): semantic 弓 (“bow”) + phonetic 玄 (OC *ɡʷeːn).

Han compound

(music) stringed instruments or music played by stringed instruments


徵

Zhǐ means zhǐ ‘to stop’; the yang-fluid has stopped; ….

徵者，止也，陽氣止；……。

征者，止也，阳气止；……。

(music) the fourth tone in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale, comparable to sol in the Western solfège system


引

Sino-Xenic (引):
* → Vietnamese: dẫn (引)

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 弓 (“bow”) + 丨 (“line”) – the line radical represents a bow string which is pulled.


彈

Characters in the same phonetic series (單) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *daːn, *daːns): semantic 弓 + phonetic 單 (OC *taːn, *djan, *djanʔ, *djans).

Han compound

彈琴

弹琴

(music) to play (a stringed musical instrument)


synthesizer

→ Hebrew: סינתיסייזר (síntesaizer)

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.

sintetizues

music: an electronic keyboard instrument

(music) An electronic instrument consisting of a module, or a set of modules, that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.


synthesizer

synthesizer (indefinite nominative singular)
synthesizern (definite nominative singular)
synthesizers (indefinite nominative plural)
synthesizer (indefinite nominative plural)
synthesizerna (definite nominative plural)
synthesizers (genitive indefinite singular)
synthesizerns (definite genitive singular)
synthesizers (genitive indefinite plural)
synthesizernas (definite genitive plural)


律

From Middle Chinese 律 (MC lwit).
The Buddhist senses are a translation of Sanskrit विनय (vinaya, “discipline, guidance, humility”).

der

(music) the six yang (odd-numbered) notes in the 十二律 (jūniritsu) chromatic scale

(music) Short for 律旋 (rissen): a seven-tone scale in gagaku, similar to the Dorian mode in the West


弄

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 玉 (“jade”) + 廾 (“hands”) – play with a jade artefact using one's hands.
Compared with Khmer លួង (luəng, “to console; to cheer; to coax; to flatter”) < Old Khmer lvaṅ (“to cheer, amuse, entertain, divert”) < Pre-Angkorian Khmer loṅ. The Khmer initial consonant does not agree with Old Chinese; perhaps the Khmer word is a post-Han loan (Schuessler, 2007).

cog

(music) to play (a musical instrument); to perform


工

(music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note mi (3).

(music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note mi (3).


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): an 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


撚

(music) to press on or lightly pinch in the strings of the pipa to produce a wave-like effect


拍

/pʰaːk̚³⁻³⁵/

/pʰaːk̚³⁻³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰraːɡ): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ).

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

拍鼓 [Hokkien] ― phah-kó͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to play the drums

to pat; to slap; to clap; to swat; to hit with a flat surface (palm, swatter, etc.)

(Taiwanese Hokkien, music) to play (a percussion instrument)

(Hokkien, music) bamboo clapper for beating time in nanyin (made of two bamboo blocks)

每小節有四拍。

每小节有四拍。


appassionato

it-adj

appassionato (feminine appassionata, masculine plural appassionati, feminine plural appassionate)

appassionata (feminine)
appassionati (masculine plural)
appassionate (feminine plural)


打

desc

→ Korean: 치다 (chida, “to call (on the telephone)”) (semantic loan)

→ Zhuang: daj

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rteŋʔ, *teːŋʔ): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ).
This post-classical word (its earliest extant attestation is in Shuowen) was pronounced *teŋ in Late Old Chinese, as would be expected from a 丁 phonetic. By the early Ming period, the character had been borrowed (訓讀／训读) for another word (撻) with the same meaning ("to flog, to beat") but a different pronunciation (whence Mandarin tà), without the nasal ending. This may be related to the previous reading, as a dialectal variant. In Mandarin and some other varieties, the new reading became standard; however, derivations of the older pronunciation are still used in other varieties such as Wu and Min Nan, as well as Vietnamese (đánh).
It has been compared to Mizo dêng (“to throw; to fling; to hammer”) and proposed to be from Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *dah ~ daʔ (“to hit, to meet”), whence Mon ဒး (tɛ̀h, “to hit (a mark), meet with, reach [goal], be correct, apposite, to fit”) and Khmer ទះ (tĕəh, “to slap, to strike”).
The pronunciation da is recorded in 六書故 as 都假切.

cog

to hit (a mark), meet with, reach 􂀿goal􂁀, be correct, apposite, to fit

打鼓

(music) to play (a percussion instrument)

to hit; to strike; to slap; to beat
to play (a percussion instrument)


板

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praːnʔ): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).
Officially adopted as the simplified form of 闆 (etymology 2) in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.
The same word as 版 (OC *praːnʔ, “plank”). Cognate with Tibetan འཕར ('phar, “panel; small plank”) (Schuessler, 2007), Burmese ပြား (pra:, “flat, pya”) (Hill, 2019, p. 224).

cog

行板

散板

(music) beat; meter; rhythm (in music or Chinese opera)


末

末 (canonical)
sue (romanization)
suwe (romanization)
すゑ (hiragana historical)

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712.

(kagura, music) in a 神楽 (kagura) performance, the seats on the right side facing the altar or shrine; the performers playing in these seats


柱

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *toʔ, *doʔ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duːŋ (“post; column”) (STEDT). Cognate with 拄 (OC *toʔ, “to support”), as well as Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuŋ-I, *tun-II (“to erect; post; vertical”), Proto-Central Naga *tuŋ (“stem; trunk; post; tree”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

inh

string instrument
string instrument#English

(music) bridge (on a string instrument, such as a guzheng)


accentuation

en-noun

accentuation (countable and uncountable, plural accentuations)

From Late Latin accentuatio. Compare French accentuation. Equivalent to accentuate + -ion.

(ecclesiastical, music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.


歌

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ota.

氷と炎の歌


sequence

en-verb

sequence (third-person singular simple present sequences, present participle sequencing, simple past and past participle sequenced)

sequences (present singular third-person)
sequencing (participle present)
sequenced (participle past)
sequenced (past)

From Middle English sequence, borrowed from Old French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”); see sequent.

der

(transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.


cornet

→ English: cornet

→ Switzerland German: Cornet


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


group

→ Gulf Arabic: قروب (grūp)

→ Japanese: グループ (gurūpu)

→ Korean: 그룹 (geurup)

→ Tongan: kulupu

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Frankish *krupp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). In the sense of group theory coined (in French, as groupe) by Évariste Galois.
Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”); Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”) (whence English crop); Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

der

(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.


子

Characters in the same phonetic series (子) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – an image of a baby, with a large head and spread arms. The legs are wrapped in a blanket. Compare with 了, where the arms are wrapped.
The big seal script form is much more elaborate, showing a baby with hair on a head (囟) and arms on the two sides of the body, sitting on a stool (几).
;child
:From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsa ~ za (“child, offspring, relatives; to come forth (as child at birth); to love; loving”).
:Cognate with 字 (OC *zlɯs, “character; letter”), 慈 (OC *zɯ, “loving; kind”), 滋 (OC *ʔsɯ, “to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase”), 孳 (OC *ʔsɯ, *zɯs, “to breed, to propagate”).
;first earthly branch
:In oracle bone and Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, 子 was the sixth earthly branch; the first earthly branch was denoted differently. One of the forms survived in Shuo Wen (𢀇) (Matsumaru, 2015).
:Smith (2011) proposed this character is 甾. Observing that 甾 is closely linked with 緇 "dark, stained", 淄 "murky (water)", 菑 "field cleared by burning" (all pronounced *tsrə), Smith (2011) proposes that initially the first earthly branch 甾 (OC *ts[r]əʔ) denoted the new moon phase and meant "darkened, voided, the darkened stage". Additionally, Smith (2011) proposes that 子 (OC tsəʔ), which originated from a Sino-Tibetan root meaning "to come forth", denoted the moon's "coming forth" stage (i.e. early waning-gibbous phase).
:Sometime in Warring States period, a change occured that 子 became the first earthly branch and 巳 (OC *s-ləʔ) filled the void of the sixth earthly branch (Matsumaru, 2015), "due to phonological closeness (combined with the semantic opacity of the Branch terms at later eras)" (Smith, 2011).
:Association with the rat was possibly arbitrary, analogous to how 辰, the fifth earthly branch, was arbitrarily associated with the dragon (Ferlus, 2013).

och-l

㜽
𡿹
𡐫
𣕓
𰱤
𢀇
𢀈
𠙭
𢀉


琴

→ Burmese: ခင် (hkang)

→ English: qin

→ Thai: ขิม (kǐm) (via Min Nan)

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)


砧

From 衣板 (kinuita, literally “clothes board”), with elision of the i; see 衣 and 板 for more on the components.

(music) Clipping of 砧拍子 (kinuta-byōshi).


瓦

→ Proto-Hmong-Mien: *ŋʷæX (“tile”)

→ Vietnamese: ngói (“tile”)

→ Zhuang: vax (“tile”)

Pictogram (象形) – fired earthenware pottery, or a tile.
Possibly derived from 化 (OC *hŋʷraːls, “to transform”) by eliminating causative devoicing and adding an endoactive rising tone (上聲), literally “that which has transformed (through fire)” (Schuessler, 2007).

(music) Alternative name for 土 (tǔ, “earth”).


短

From Middle Chinese 短 (twan^X, “short”).


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


筊

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/

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


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)


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


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.


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


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.


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.
Compare Proto-Tai *b.twuːkᴰ (“bamboo strip for tying or weaving”), whence Thai ตอก (dtɔ̀ɔk, “bamboo strip”).

cog

(music) musical instrument made of bamboo


squelch

en-noun

squelch (countable and uncountable, plural squelches)

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash + quell + quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.

Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.

1998, Colin Larkin, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music, page 91:

(countable, music) A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.


絲

qualifier

see <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">sēricus</i> for descendants of this

→ Ancient Greek: Σήρ (Sḗr, “Chinese; silkworm”)
→ Latin: Sēres
English: Seres
Portuguese: Seres
Spanish: Seres
 (see sēricus for descendants of this)

→ Aramaic:

desc

Classical Syriac: ܫܺܐܪܳܐ (šērā), ܫܺܐܪܳܝܳܐ (šērāyā), ܫܻܝܪܳܝܳܐ (šērāyā, “silk; silk garment”)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שִׁירָאָה (šērāʾā), שִּׁירָא (šērā, “silk; silk garment”)

Mandaic: ࡔࡉ࡚ࡓࡀࡉࡀ (/šērāyā/)

→ Arabic: سِيرَاء (sīrāʔ, “a kind of silk garment”)

ሢራይ, ሥራይ, ሤራይ

→ Ge'ez: ሢራይ, ሥራይ, ሤራይ (śiray, śəray, śeray, “silk; silk garment”)

→? Old Korean: 糸利 (*SIli, “thread”)

Middle Korean: 실〯 (sǐl, “id.”)

Korean: 실 (sil, “id.”)

→ Vietnamese: tơ

Obsolete. 皮 is used for SI prefix pico-.

絲竹

丝竹


番

番 (canonical)
-ban (romanization)
ばん (hiragana historical)

2番の歌詞


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


nuance

→ Bulgarian: нюа́нс (njuáns)

→ Czech: nuance

→ Danish: nuance

desctree

→ Dutch: nuance
Afrikaans: nuanse
→ Indonesian: nuansa

→ English: nuance

→ Esperanto: nuanco
→ Ido: nuanco

→ Finnish: nyanssi

→ German: Nuance

→ Norwegian: nyanse

→ Polish: niuans

→ Portuguese: nuance

→ Romanian: nuanță

→ Russian: нюа́нс (njuáns)

→ Slovak: nuansa

→ Swedish: nyans


SW

(handbells) Abbreviation of swing: to play the bell in a normal position, swing it down to the waist, then bring it back up


羽

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (羽):
* → Japanese: 羽(う) (u)
* → Korean: 우(羽) (u)
* → Vietnamese: vũ (羽)

Pictogram (象形): wings or feathers.
Either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa (“feather”), whence Tibetan སྒྲོ (sgro, “large feather”) (Coblin, 1986; Gong Hwang-cherng, 2002; STEDT), or *w(a/u) (“bird; egg; wing; fowl”) (Matisoff, 2000; Schuessler, 2007; Sagart, 2021b; STEDT).

Yǔ means yū ‘to twist’; the yin-fluid is above, the yang-fluid is below; […] .

Yǔ zhě, yū yě, yīnqì zàishàng, yángqì zàixià;.......

羽者，紆也，陰氣在上，陽氣在下；……。

羽者，纡也，阴气在上，阳气在下；……。

(music) fifth note in the Chinese pentatonic scale


羽

(music) the fifth and highest note in the Chinese pentatonic scale


生

(music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note high do (1̇).


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. Later forms added 口 (“mouth”) or 言 (“speech”) to emphasize the act of of crying or calling. 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".


pitch

en-noun

pitch (countable and uncountable, plural pitches)

Unknown. Perhaps from the above sense of "inclination", "level", or "degree", or influenced by it.

The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.

(music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

Are we in baroque pitch for this one?

(music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.

Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.

(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.


譜

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *paːʔ): semantic 言 (“sound”) + phonetic 普 (OC *pʰaːʔ).


CD

CD m inan or (canonical feminine neuter)


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.


duo

→ Romanian: duo

Borrowed from Italian duo. Doublet of deux.

(music) duet (a musical composition for two performers)


duo

→ English: duo

→ Finnish: duo

→ French: duo
→ Romanian: duo

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: duo

Norwegian Nynorsk: duo

→ Polish: duo

→ Portuguese: duo

→ Swedish: duo


duo

Borrowed from Italian duo, from Latin duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of dwa (“two”).

(music) duo (piece of music written for two musicians)


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.


division

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.


Orthographic borrowing from English MP3.

(music) MP3 (digital sound recording in MP3 format; a song file)

(music) MP3 player (electronic device for playing digital audio files in the MP3 format (and, in many cases, also files in some other formats and/or including a radio function))


gamma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma).

bor+

gamut; the range of possible values, especially:

(music) the set of tones available from a musical instrument


調

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw): semantic 言 + phonetic 周 (OC *tjɯw).

Han compound

(music) to tune; to play (an instrument)


調

/ti̯aʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/

/ti̯aʊ̯ɻʷ⁵¹/

A調

A调

徵調曲

征调曲


TV

en-noun

TV (countable and uncountable, plural TVs)

→ Thai: ทีวี (tii-wii)

→ Vietnamese: ti vi

(pop culture, music) Initialism of Taylor's Version.


seconde

The first sense is a borrowing from Latin (minuta) secunda.

(music) second (interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale)


越

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢʷaːd, *ɢʷad): semantic 走 (“to walk or run”) + phonetic 戉 (OC *ɢʷad) — to go over; to cross.
; “to go over; to surpass; to overstep; to turn”
: Related to 𨒋 (“to go over”), 䟠 (“to go beyond; to transgress”) (Wang, 1982) and perhaps 于 (OC *ɢʷa, “to go”) (Schuessler, 2007).
; “modal particle”
; “Yue; Viet; State of Yue”
: This is a general name for numerous indigenous tribes in ancient southern China, which are collectively called Baiyue. The ancient State of Yue during the Zhou dynasty of China was initially written as 戉 (OC *ɢʷad, “large battle-axe”) — alternatively written as 𫑛 — and it is commonly believed the name Yue originates from this instrument, which was widely found in neolithic cultures of southeastern China and served as a symbol of authority and royalty.
: See 戉 (OC *ɢʷad) for more on the etymology.

Han compound

(music) small hole at the bottom of a se, a traditional Chinese musical instrument


cor

head

cor m (genitive singular coir, nominative plural cora or coranna)

coir (genitive singular)
cora (nominative plural)
coranna (nominative plural)
cor (indefinite nominative singular)
cora (indefinite nominative plural)
a choir (indefinite singular vocative)
a chora (indefinite plural vocative)
coir (genitive indefinite singular)
cor (genitive indefinite plural)
cor (dative indefinite singular)
cora (dative indefinite plural)
an cor (definite nominative singular)
na cora (definite nominative plural)
an choir (definite genitive singular)
na gcor (definite genitive plural)
leis an gcor (dative definite singular)
don chor (dative definite singular)
leis na cora (dative definite plural)

Derived from Old Irish cor (“act of putting”), verbal noun of fo·ceird (“to put”).


解

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 角 (“horn”) + 刀 (“knife”) + 牛 (“cow”) – a knife separates a horn from a cow, i.e. “cut up (an ox)”.
Three pronunciations are cognate. "To loosen; to disengage" > "idle, lazy, remiss". Cognate with 懈 (OC *kreːs, “lazy, remiss”) and possibly 邂逅 (OC *ɡreːs ɡoːs, “carefree and happy”).
? Area stem: *C-re. Compare Burmese ဖြေ (hpre, “to untie; to answer; to ease; to absolve”), အဖြေ (a.hpre, “answer, solution; response; explication”); Khmer រាយ (riəy, “to scatter, to be divided up, to separate”), ស្រាយ (sraay, “to untie, to undo, to explain, to solve”).

cog

With a work such like this, another piece should be played to complete it, so that the music finds its fullest expression.

Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE

Fú qǔ yǒurú cǐ, dāng yǐ tāqǔ xiè zhī, fāngkě jìn qí shēng yǐ.

夫曲有如此，當以他曲解之，方可盡其聲矣。

夫曲有如此，当以他曲解之，方可尽其声矣。

(dated, music) to conclude a piece; to complete


genus

en-noun

genus (plural genera or (both nonstandard) genuses or genusses)

genera (plural)
genuses (nonstandard plural)
genusses (nonstandard plural)

→ Malayalam: ജീനസ് (jīnasŭ)

→ Swahili: jenasi

→ Thai: สกุล (sà-gun) (semantic loan)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genusbor.
English genus
Borrowed from Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). Doublet of gender, genre, and kin.

genus

rank in a taxonomic classification between family and species

en:type of tuning or intonation in music

(music) A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.


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.
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.

och-l

Why is the note called jué? Jué means yuè ‘to leap’' the yang-fluid stirs and leaps; …

Suǒyǐ míng zhī wèi jué zhě? Yuè yě, yángqì dòngyuè;.......

所以名之為角者？躍也，陽氣動躍；……。

所以名之为角者？跃也，阳气动跃；……。

(music) third note in the Chinese pentatonic scale, or mi


CC

en-noun

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

(music, MIDI) Initialism of control change.


鍵

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 建 (OC *kans) – a metal key.

Han compound

琴鍵

琴键

(music) key (lever on a musical keyboard)


鐃

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


轉

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tonʔ, *tons): semantic 車 (“carriage”) + phonetic 專 (OC *tjon).
Possibly related to:
* Old Tibetan འདྲུལ ('drul, “to transmit; to communicate”) (Schuessler, 2007), or
* Tibetan སྲུལ (srul, “to move to and fro; to stir”), Burmese ရွေ့ (rwe., “to move; to be displaced”), ရွှေ့ (hrwe., “to move or shift something”) (Starostin).
An allofam is perhaps *don (“round”). Compare Vietnamese tròn (“round; circle; entire; whole”), trọn (“fully; completely; all”), as well as the following Chinese words:
* 團 (OC *doːn, “ball; circle; lump”),
* 摶 (OC *doːn, *doːn, *donʔ, “to roll up into a ball”).
Derivative: 傳 (OC *tons, *don, *dons, “to relay; to pass on; to transfer; relay station; biography; record”).

och-l

转
返
转
转
转
撙
捘

78轉黑膠

78转黑胶


accentor

From Latin accentor (“one who sings with another”), from ad + cantor (“singer”), from canō (“sing”). Superficially accent + -or.

bor

(music, obsolete) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.


metre

en-verb

metre (third-person singular simple present metres, present participle metring, simple past and past participle metred)

metres (present singular third-person)
metring (participle present)
metred (participle past)
metred (past)

From Old English, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure, rule, length, size, poetic metre”).

der

(poetry, music) To put into metrical form.


metre

(poetry, music) metre/meter (the rhythm of a song or poem)


idea

en-noun

idea (plural ideas or (philosophy, rare) ideæ)

→ Japanese: アイディア (aidia), アイデア (aidea)

Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée. Related to idol, idolum, and eidolon.

der

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.


accelerando

en-noun

accelerando (plural accelerandos or accelerandoes)

accelerandos (plural)
accelerandoes (plural)

/æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero.

(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.


accelerando

/æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/

(music) With a gradual increase in speed.


accelerando

Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando (“accelerating”).

ubor

(music) accelerando: with a gradual increase in speed.


accelerando

Unadapted borrowing from Italian accelerando.


accelerando

accelerando (indefinite nominative singular)
accelerandot (definite nominative singular)
accelerandon (indefinite nominative plural)
accelerandona (definite nominative plural)
accelerandos (genitive indefinite singular)
accelerandots (definite genitive singular)
accelerandons (genitive indefinite plural)
accelerandonas (definite genitive plural)


階

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (階):
* → Japanese: 階(かい) (kai)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kriːl): semantic 阝 + phonetic 皆 (OC *kriːl).

Han compound

五聲音階

五声音阶


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.


dord

head

dord m (genitive singular as substantive doird, genitive as verbal noun dordta, nominative plural doird)

doird (genitive singular substantive)
as verbal noun dordta (genitive)
doird (nominative plural)
dord (indefinite nominative singular)
a dhord (indefinite singular vocative)
dordta (genitive indefinite singular)
dord (dative indefinite singular)
an dord (definite nominative singular)
an dordta (definite genitive singular)
leis an dord (dative definite singular)
don dord (dative definite singular)
dord (indefinite nominative singular)
doird (indefinite nominative plural)
a dhoird (indefinite singular vocative)
a dhorda (indefinite plural vocative)
doird (genitive indefinite singular)
dord (genitive indefinite plural)
dord (dative indefinite singular)
doird (dative indefinite plural)
an dord (definite nominative singular)
na doird (definite nominative plural)
an doird (definite genitive singular)
na ndord (definite genitive plural)
leis an dord (dative definite singular)
don dord (dative definite singular)
leis na doird (dative definite plural)

/d̪ˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ/

From Old Irish dord (“buzzing, humming, droning, intoning”).


降

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (降):
* → Vietnamese: giáng (降)

* Mandarin
*: (Standard)
*::(Pinyin): jiàng (jiang⁴)
*::(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄤˋ
*: (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): jiang⁴
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gong³
* Gan (Wiktionary): gong⁴
* Hakka
*: (Sixian, PFS): kong / kiung
*: (Meixian, Guangdong): gong⁴
* Northern Min (KCR): go̿ng
* Eastern Min (BUC): gáung
* Southern Min
*: (Hokkien, POJ): kàng
*: (Teochew, Peng'im): gang³
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵kaon
* Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): jian⁴
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)⁺
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jiàng
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jiàng
*** Wade–Giles: chiang⁴
*** Yale: jyàng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jianq
*** Palladius: цзян (czjan)
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: jiang⁴
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: giang
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /t͡ɕiaŋ²¹³/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gong³
*** Yale: gong
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gong³
*** Guangdong Romanization: gong³
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /kɔːŋ³³/
* Gan
** (Nanchang)
*** Wiktionary: gong⁴
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /kɔŋ³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kong / kiung
*** Hakka Romanization System: gong / giung
*** Hagfa Pinyim: gong⁴ / giung⁴
*** Sinological IPA: /koŋ⁵⁵/, /ki̯uŋ⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: gong⁴
*** Sinological IPA: /kɔŋ⁵³/
Note:
*kiung - only in the sense “to give birth”;
*kong - all other senses.
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: go̿ng
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /kɔŋ³³/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: gáung
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /kɑuŋ²¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kàng
*** Tâi-lô: kàng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kaxng
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /kaŋ²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /kaŋ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ¹¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: gang³
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kàng
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /kaŋ²¹³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: ⁵kaon
*** MiniDict: kaon^去
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²kaan
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kɑ̃³⁴/
* Xiang
** (Changsha)
*** Wiktionary: jian⁴
*** Sinological IPA ⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /t͡ɕi̯æn⁴⁵/
* Middle Chinese: kaewngH
* Old Chinese
*: (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤruŋ-s/
*: (Zhengzhang): /*kruːŋs/

zh-pron

kiung - only in the sense “to give birth”; kong - all other senses

降A大調

降A大调


ta

Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.

(music) In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.


line

→ Scottish Gaelic: loidhne

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.

lyn

path through two or more points, threadlike mark

lyn

single horizontal row of text on a screen, printed paper, etc.

linja

measure of length, the main division of an inch or its local equivalent

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

(music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.

regel

music: one of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed

Students and the instructor sing the harmony line while the instructor plays the melody line on the piano.

2015, Mícheál Houlahan, Philip Tacka, Kodály in the Third Grade Classroom:

(music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.


natural

en-adj

natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)

more natural (comparative)
most natural (superlative)

/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, nature + -al.

luonnollinen

that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem

luonnollinen

having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position

There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.

(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.

Existing in nature.
Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.


natural

/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

(music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.

(music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.


natural

ms-noun

natural (Jawi spelling ناتورل, plural natural-natural, informal 1st possessive naturalku, 2nd possessive naturalmu, 3rd possessive naturalnya)

ناتورل (Jawi)
natural-natural (plural)
naturalku (first-person informal possessive)
naturalmu (possessive second-person)
naturalnya (possessive third-person)

Borrowed from English natural, from Middle English natural, from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb).

(music) natural: the symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.


natural

es-adj

natural m or f (masculine and feminine plural naturales)

(music) natural (neither sharp nor flat)


駒

Compound of 子(こ) (ko, “child”) + 馬(ま) (ma, “horse”).
See also 子馬(こうま) (kōma).

(music) bridge (the piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board)


platinum

en-noun

platinum (countable and uncountable, plural platinums)

From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.

(music, countable) A single or album that has achieved platinum sales, i.e. over 1 million or 2 million.

platinplade

recording that has achieved platinum sales


面

両A面


龣

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

Han compound

(music) third note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or mi


augmentation

en-noun

augmentation (countable and uncountable, plural augmentations)

From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb).

(music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.


twee

From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.

Even the wider world got its doses of twee sound, from the fluffy pop of Aztec Camera to the stylish bounce of the Railway Children.

2005 October 24, Nitsuh Abebe, “Twee as Fuck”, in Pitchfork:

Wang points out the very clear links between twee and queer culture, as many 90s twee bands “played alongside queercore bands like Team Dresch.[…]”

2022 January 25, katie tobin, quoting Ian Wang, “Clutch Your Pearls, the Indie Twee Aesthetic is Back”, in Vice:


齣

齣 (canonical)
齣 (canonical)
koma (romanization)

Probably cognate with 小間, 細 (koma, “small; a small piece of something”).

(music) a phrase or portion of a piece of music


SO

symphony orchestra
symphony orchestra#English

(music) Initialism of symphony orchestra.


accompanist

First attested in 1833. From accompany + -ist.

(music) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.

akkompagnatør

performer who takes the accompanying part


segue

en-verb

segue (third-person singular simple present segues, present participle segueing, simple past and past participle segued)

segues (present singular third-person)
segueing (participle present)
segued (participle past)
segued (past)

Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.

Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.

(music) To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.


li

Altered from la, with the vowel changed to signify a raised note.

(music) In solfège, the raised sixth note of a major scale (the note A-sharp in the fixed-do system).


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”).
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
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鼓手


funkadelic

en-adj

funkadelic (comparative more funkadelic, superlative most funkadelic)

more funkadelic (comparative)
most funkadelic (superlative)

/ˌfʌŋkəˈdɛlɪk/

It's more or less what we call funkadelic. It's a combination of R&B, psychedelic, and funky African-type beat.

1969, Steve Wonder (interview) in "Coming of Age at Motown" (2002)


音

Characters in the same phonetic series (音) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogram (指事): 言 (“word”) with something in 口 (“mouth”) written like 甘 – sound comes from the mouth. The vertical trait, that used to represent the body of the tongue, then disappeared as in 言.


generator

/ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”).

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

(music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.

(music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.


simultaneity

en-noun

simultaneity (countable and uncountable, plural simultaneities)

From simultane(ous) + -ity. Compare French simultanéité.

(music) More than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time. This first appeared in the music of Charles Ives, and is common in the music of Conlon Nancarrow, and others.


長

長 (canonical)
chō (romanization)
tyau (romanization)
ちやう (hiragana historical)

/tjau/ → /t͡ɕjau/ → /t͡ɕɔː/ → /t͡ɕoː/
From Middle Chinese 長 (MC trjangX) in the sense of “chief, head, leader” and 長 (MC drjang) (literally meaning “long”) for other senses. The two Middle Chinese readings were distinct but etymologically connected.


trumpeter

From trumpet + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).


A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ६ (6)). See 6 § Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit for more.

(music, superscript) an indicator that a triad is in first inversion.


crook

From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-West Germanic *krōk, from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”).
Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).

der

(music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.


A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ७ (7)). See 7 § Evolution of the Arabic digit for more.

(music, superscript) an indicator that a chord is a dominant or major seventh chord


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.


requiem

(music) requiem (musical composition composed for such a mass)


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

The song's hook snared me.

Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI’s strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok’s desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.

2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The A.V. Club:

(music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.


produce

en-verb

produce (third-person singular simple present produces, present participle producing, simple past and past participle produced)

produces (present singular third-person)
producing (participle present)
produced (participle past)
produced (past)

/pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/

From Middle English produce, from Latin prōdūcō (“to lead forth”), from prō- (“forth, forward”) + dūcō (“to lead, bring”). The noun is derived from the verb.

highly produced sound

(music) To alter using technology, as opposed to simply performing.


staff

en-noun

staff (countable and uncountable, plural staffs or staves or staff)

staffs (plural)
staves (plural)
staff (plural)

Token (railway signalling)#Staff and ticket

→ French: staff

→ Italian: staff

→ Japanese: スタッフ (sutaffu)

→ Korean: 스태프 (seutaepeu)

→ Malay: staf

→ Portuguese: stafe

→ Spanish: staff

From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf (“letter of the alphabet”), from Proto-West Germanic *stab, from Proto-Germanic *stabaz. Cognate with Dutch staf, German Stab, Swedish stav.
Sense of "group of military officers that assists a commander" and similar meanings, attested from 1702, is influenced by or is even from German Stab.

inh

(music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

balk

music: horizontal lines on which notes are written


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.

(music, colloquial) Any musical instrument.

A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.


scalar

Borrowed from Latin scālāris, adjectival form from scāla (“a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scale”), for *scadla, from scandere (“to climb”); compare scale. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

(music) Of or pertaining to a musical scale.


tangent

Borrowed from Latin tangentem, the accusative of tangēns (“touching”) (in the phrase līnea tangēns (“a touching line”)), the present participle of the verb tangō (“touch”, verb), from Proto-Italic *tangō, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Cognate with Old English þaccian (“to touch lightly, pat, stroke”). More at thack, thwack.

cog

(music) A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.


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)


madeira

From Old Galician-Portuguese madeira, from Latin māteria, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Cognates with Galician madeira and Spanish madera. Doublet of matéria, a borrowing.

(music, usually in the plural) woodwind instrument


es

es (nominative singular)
esit (nominative plural)
es (accusative nominative singular)
esit (accusative nominative plural)
esin (accusative genitive singular)
esit (accusative genitive plural)
esin (genitive singular)
esien (genitive plural)
esiä (partitive singular)
esejä (partitive plural)
esissä (inessive singular)
eseissä (inessive plural)
esistä (elative singular)
eseistä (elative plural)
esiin (illative singular)
eseihin (illative plural)
esillä (adessive singular)
eseillä (adessive plural)
esiltä (ablative singular)
eseiltä (ablative plural)
esille (allative singular)
eseille (allative plural)
esinä (essive singular)
eseinä (essive plural)
esiksi (singular translative)
eseiksi (plural translative)
esittä (abessive singular)
eseittä (abessive plural)
esein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
esini (nominative singular)
esini (nominative plural)
esini (accusative nominative singular)
esini (accusative nominative plural)
esini (accusative genitive singular)
esini (accusative genitive plural)
esini (genitive singular)
esieni (genitive plural)
esiäni (partitive singular)
esejäni (partitive plural)
esissäni (inessive singular)
eseissäni (inessive plural)
esistäni (elative singular)
eseistäni (elative plural)
esiini (illative singular)
eseihini (illative plural)
esilläni (adessive singular)
eseilläni (adessive plural)
esiltäni (ablative singular)
eseiltäni (ablative plural)
esilleni (allative singular)
eseilleni (allative plural)
esinäni (essive singular)
eseinäni (essive plural)
esikseni (singular translative)
eseikseni (plural translative)
esittäni (abessive singular)
eseittäni (abessive plural)
eseineni (comitative plural)
esisi (nominative singular)
esisi (nominative plural)
esisi (accusative nominative singular)
esisi (accusative nominative plural)
esisi (accusative genitive singular)
esisi (accusative genitive plural)
esisi (genitive singular)
esiesi (genitive plural)
esiäsi (partitive singular)
esejäsi (partitive plural)
esissäsi (inessive singular)
eseissäsi (inessive plural)
esistäsi (elative singular)
eseistäsi (elative plural)
esiisi (illative singular)
eseihisi (illative plural)
esilläsi (adessive singular)
eseilläsi (adessive plural)
esiltäsi (ablative singular)
eseiltäsi (ablative plural)
esillesi (allative singular)
eseillesi (allative plural)
esinäsi (essive singular)
eseinäsi (essive plural)
esiksesi (singular translative)
eseiksesi (plural translative)
esittäsi (abessive singular)
eseittäsi (abessive plural)
eseinesi (comitative plural)
esimme (nominative singular)
esimme (nominative plural)
esimme (accusative nominative singular)
esimme (accusative nominative plural)
esimme (accusative genitive singular)
esimme (accusative genitive plural)
esimme (genitive singular)
esiemme (genitive plural)
esiämme (partitive singular)
esejämme (partitive plural)
esissämme (inessive singular)
eseissämme (inessive plural)
esistämme (elative singular)
eseistämme (elative plural)
esiimme (illative singular)
eseihimme (illative plural)
esillämme (adessive singular)
eseillämme (adessive plural)
esiltämme (ablative singular)
eseiltämme (ablative plural)
esillemme (allative singular)
eseillemme (allative plural)
esinämme (essive singular)
eseinämme (essive plural)
esiksemme (singular translative)
eseiksemme (plural translative)
esittämme (abessive singular)
eseittämme (abessive plural)
eseinemme (comitative plural)
esinne (nominative singular)
esinne (nominative plural)
esinne (accusative nominative singular)
esinne (accusative nominative plural)
esinne (accusative genitive singular)
esinne (accusative genitive plural)
esinne (genitive singular)
esienne (genitive plural)
esiänne (partitive singular)
esejänne (partitive plural)
esissänne (inessive singular)
eseissänne (inessive plural)
esistänne (elative singular)
eseistänne (elative plural)
esiinne (illative singular)
eseihinne (illative plural)
esillänne (adessive singular)
eseillänne (adessive plural)
esiltänne (ablative singular)
eseiltänne (ablative plural)
esillenne (allative singular)
eseillenne (allative plural)
esinänne (essive singular)
eseinänne (essive plural)
esiksenne (singular translative)
eseiksenne (plural translative)
esittänne (abessive singular)
eseittänne (abessive plural)
eseinenne (comitative plural)
esinsä (nominative singular)
esinsä (nominative plural)
esinsä (accusative nominative singular)
esinsä (accusative nominative plural)
esinsä (accusative genitive singular)
esinsä (accusative genitive plural)
esinsä (genitive singular)
esiensä (genitive plural)
esiään (partitive singular)
esiänsä (partitive singular)
esejään (partitive plural)
esejänsä (partitive plural)
esissään (inessive singular)
esissänsä (inessive singular)
eseissään (inessive plural)
eseissänsä (inessive plural)
esistään (elative singular)
esistänsä (elative singular)
eseistään (elative plural)
eseistänsä (elative plural)
esiinsä (illative singular)
eseihinsä (illative plural)
esillään (adessive singular)
esillänsä (adessive singular)
eseillään (adessive plural)
eseillänsä (adessive plural)
esiltään (ablative singular)
esiltänsä (ablative singular)
eseiltään (ablative plural)
eseiltänsä (ablative plural)
esilleen (allative singular)
esillensä (allative singular)
eseilleen (allative plural)
eseillensä (allative plural)
esinään (essive singular)
esinänsä (essive singular)
eseinään (essive plural)
eseinänsä (essive plural)
esikseen (singular translative)
esiksensä (singular translative)
eseikseen (plural translative)
eseiksensä (plural translative)
esittään (abessive singular)
esittänsä (abessive singular)
eseittään (abessive plural)
eseittänsä (abessive plural)
eseineen (comitative plural)
eseinensä (comitative plural)


es

head

es n (genitive singular ess, nominative plural es)

ess (genitive singular)
es (nominative plural)
es (indefinite nominative singular)
esið (definite nominative singular)
es (indefinite nominative plural)
esin (definite nominative plural)
es (accusative indefinite singular)
esið (accusative definite singular)
es (accusative indefinite plural)
esin (accusative definite plural)
esi (dative indefinite singular)
esinu (dative definite singular)
esum (dative indefinite plural)
esunum (dative definite plural)
ess (genitive indefinite singular)
essins (definite genitive singular)
esa (genitive indefinite plural)
esanna (definite genitive plural)


ti

Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

der

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.


ti

Borrowed from English ti, from alteration of si, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter.

(music) ti (a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale)


ti

ti-en (definite singular)
ti-ar (indefinite plural)
ti-ane (definite plural)

Alteration of si, so that every note of the solfège would begin with a different letter.

(music) ti, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.


ti

tȋ (canonical inanimate masculine)
tȋ (nominative singular)
tȋ (dual nominative)
tȋ (nominative plural)
tȋ (genitive singular)
tȋ (dual genitive)
tȋ (genitive plural)
tȋ (dative singular)
tȋ (dative dual)
tȋ (dative plural)
tȋ (accusative singular)
tȋ (accusative dual)
tȋ (accusative plural)
tȋ (locative singular)
tȋ (dual locative)
tȋ (locative plural)
tȋ (instrumental singular)
tȋ (dual instrumental)
tȋ (instrumental plural)
tȋ (singular vocative)
tȋ (dual vocative)
tȋ (plural vocative)
tȋ (nominative singular)
tȋja (dual nominative)
tȋji (nominative plural)
tȋja (genitive singular)
tȋjev (dual genitive)
tȋjev (genitive plural)
tȋju (dative singular)
tȋji (dative singular)
tȋjema (dative dual)
tȋjem (dative plural)
tȋ (accusative singular)
tȋja (accusative dual)
tȋje (accusative plural)
tȋju (locative singular)
tȋji (locative singular)
tȋjih (dual locative)
tȋjih (locative plural)
tȋjem (instrumental singular)
tȋjema (dual instrumental)
tȋji (instrumental plural)
tȋ (singular vocative)
tȋja (dual vocative)
tȋji (plural vocative)
tȋ (nominative singular)
tȋja (dual nominative)
tȋji (nominative plural)
tȋja (genitive singular)
tȋjev (dual genitive)
tȋjev (genitive plural)
tȋju (dative singular)
tȋji (dative singular)
tȋjoma (dative dual)
tȋjom (dative plural)
tȋ (accusative singular)
tȋja (accusative dual)
tȋje (accusative plural)
tȋju (locative singular)
tȋji (locative singular)
tȋjih (dual locative)
tȋjih (locative plural)
tȋjom (instrumental singular)
tȋjoma (dual instrumental)
tȋji (instrumental plural)
tȋ (singular vocative)
tȋja (dual vocative)
tȋji (plural vocative)


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”). First attested in c. 1592.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines


seventeenth

(music) An interval of two octaves and a third.


hip-hop

(music) A form of popular and dance music featuring strong percussion and a powerful rhythm, usually accompanied by rapping.


hip-hop

hip-hop (nominative singular)
hip-hopu (genitive singular)
hip-hopowi (dative singular)
hip-hop (accusative singular)
hip-hopem (instrumental singular)
hip-hopie (locative singular)
hip-hopie (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English hip-hop.

ubor

(music) hip-hop (form of popular and dance music featuring strong percussion and a powerful rhythm, usually accompanied by rapping)


belt

→ Afrikaans: belt

→ Assamese: বেল্ট (belto)

→ Bengali: বেল্ট (belṭo)

→ Dutch: belt

→ Hindi: बेल्ट (belṭ)

→ Irish: beilt

→ Japanese: ベルト (beruto)

→ Odia: ବେଲ୍ଟ୍ (belṭ)

→ Urdu: بیلٹ (belṭ)

→ Welsh: belt

From Middle English belt, from Old English belt (“belt, girdle”), from Proto-West Germanic *baltī̆, from Proto-Germanic *baltijaz (“girdle, belt”), from Latin balteus (“belt, sword-belt”), of Etruscan origin. Cognate with Scots belt (“belt”), Dutch belt, German Balz (“belt”), Danish bælte (“belt”), Swedish bälte (“belt, cincture, girdle, zone”) and Icelandic belti (“belt”).

cog

Both auditionees had great ranges but Diamond had the strong belt we really need for the finale.

As previously mentioned, there was unexpected behavior in laryngeal lowering for belt in several singers and unchanged laryngeal height for two, as well as stable opening or widening of the pharyngeal walls, which must be investigated further.

1999, Jeannette Lovetri, Susan Lesh, Peak Woo, “Preliminary Study on the Ability of Trained Singers to Control the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Laryngeal Musculature”, in Journal of Voice, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 226:

In Clara's furious rant in Act II, Allsun broke out of her soprano into a belt, which made perfect sense in the moment.

2018, Norman Spivey, Mary Saunder Barton, Cross-Training in the Voice Studio: A Balancing Act, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 57:

(music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.


violon

(music) A kind of organ stop producing a string-like sound.


pop

en-noun

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

cog

(music) The pulling of a string away from the fretboard and releasing it so that it snaps back.


pop

en-verb

pop (third-person singular simple present pops, present participle popping, simple past and past participle popped)

pops (present singular third-person)
popping (participle present)
popped (participle past)
popped (past)

(music) To pull a string away from the fretboard and release it so that it snaps back.


pop

popok (plural)
pop (nominative singular)
popok (nominative plural)
popot (accusative singular)
popokat (accusative plural)
popnak (dative singular)
popoknak (dative plural)
poppal (instrumental singular)
popokkal (instrumental plural)
popért (causal-final singular)
popokért (causal-final plural)
poppá (singular translative)
popokká (plural translative)
popig (singular terminative)
popokig (plural terminative)
popként (essive-formal singular)
popokként (essive-formal plural)
popban (inessive singular)
popokban (inessive plural)
popon (singular superessive)
popokon (plural superessive)
popnál (adessive singular)
popoknál (adessive plural)
popba (illative singular)
popokba (illative plural)
popra (singular sublative)
popokra (plural sublative)
pophoz (allative singular)
popokhoz (allative plural)
popból (elative singular)
popokból (elative plural)
popról (delative singular)
popokról (delative plural)
poptól (ablative singular)
popoktól (ablative plural)
popé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
popoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
popéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
popokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
popom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
popjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
popod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
popjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
popja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
popjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
popunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
popjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
popotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
popjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
popjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
popjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


pop

pop (accusative indefinite masculine neuter nominative singular)
pop (accusative feminine indefinite nominative singular)
pop (accusative indefinite masculine nominative plural)
pop (accusative feminine indefinite neuter nominative plural)
pop (dative genitive indefinite masculine neuter singular)
pop (dative feminine genitive indefinite singular)
pop (dative genitive indefinite masculine plural)
pop (dative feminine genitive indefinite neuter plural)


pop

pop (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un pop (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
popul (accusative definite nominative singular)
pop (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui pop (dative genitive indefinite singular)
popului (dative definite genitive singular)
popule (singular vocative)


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


pianist

From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Analyzable as piano + -ist.

By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.

(music) A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.


la

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English la (“sixth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian la in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip's”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

inh

And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.


la

(music) la (sixth note of a diatonic scale)


la

Borrowed from English la, French la, Italian la, Spanish la, Portuguese lá, German A, Russian ля (lja).


la

la-en (definite singular)
la-ar (indefinite plural)
la-ane (definite plural)

From Latin labii, from the first word of the sixth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

(music) la, a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.


turnaround

en-noun

turnaround (countable and uncountable, plural turnarounds)

(music) A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.

(music) The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.


noise

noise (countable and uncountable, plural noises)

From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.

der

(music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.

bruomuziko

genre of rock music using non-musical sounds


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 English 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”).


serpent

serpente (plural)
serpent (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un serpent (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
serpentul (accusative definite nominative singular)
serpente (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște serpente (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
serpentele (accusative definite nominative plural)
serpent (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui serpent (dative genitive indefinite singular)
serpentului (dative definite genitive singular)
serpente (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor serpente (dative genitive indefinite plural)
serpentelor (dative definite genitive plural)
serpentule (singular vocative)
serpentelor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French serpent or English serpent.


bont

bont (nominative singular)
bonty (nominative plural)
bontu (genitive singular)
bontów (genitive plural)
bontowi (dative singular)
bontom (dative plural)
bont (accusative singular)
bonty (accusative plural)
bontem (instrumental singular)
bontami (instrumental plural)
boncie (locative singular)
bontach (locative plural)
boncie (singular vocative)
bonty (plural vocative)

(music) fret (one of the pieces of metal, plastic, or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played)


se

(music) A type of ancient Chinese plucked zither.


From Italian ottava (“octave”). Since the 20th century, the "a" has sometimes been interpreted as representing alta in Italian ottava alta (“octave higher”); compare 8vb.

(music) An instruction to play one octave higher or lower than indicated.


permutation

en-noun

permutation (countable and uncountable, plural permutations)

/ˌpɜː.mjʉˈtæɪ.ʃən/

[ˌpɜː.mjʉˈtæɪ.ʃn̩]

From Middle English permutacioun, permutacyoun, from Old French permutacïon, promutatïon and Medieval Latin permūtātiōnem, accusative of permūtātiō.
Morphologically permute + -ation

(music) A transformation of a set's prime form, by applying one or more of certain operations, specifically, transposition, inversion, and retrograde.

permutaatio

music: transformation of a set's prime form


maestoso

en-adv

maestoso (comparative more maestoso, superlative most maestoso)

more maestoso (comparative)
most maestoso (superlative)


maestoso

(music) A passage to be played majestically.


maestoso

it-adj

maestoso (feminine maestosa, masculine plural maestosi, feminine plural maestose)

maestosa (feminine)
maestosi (masculine plural)
maestose (feminine plural)

(music) a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner


side

en-noun

side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).

der

know which side one's bread is buttered on

laugh out of the other side of one's mouth

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

the grass is always greener on the other side of the road

But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market.

1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, page 41:

(music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.


glitch

en-noun

glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)

Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

Coordinate term: noise

You can hear this in the contemporary genre of ‘glitch’, where artists like Oval and Fennesz make radically beautiful music using the snaps, crackles and pops emitted by damaged CDs, malfunctioning software, etc.

2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 313:

(uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.


rock

Shortened from rock and roll. Since the meaning of rock has adapted to mean a simpler, more modern, metal-like genre, rock and roll has generally been left referring to earlier forms such as that originating in the 1950s, notably more swing-oriented style.

(music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.


rock

rockok (plural)
rock (nominative singular)
rockok (nominative plural)
rockot (accusative singular)
rockokat (accusative plural)
rocknak (dative singular)
rockoknak (dative plural)
rockkal (instrumental singular)
rockokkal (instrumental plural)
rockért (causal-final singular)
rockokért (causal-final plural)
rockká (singular translative)
rockokká (plural translative)
rockig (singular terminative)
rockokig (plural terminative)
rockként (essive-formal singular)
rockokként (essive-formal plural)
rockban (inessive singular)
rockokban (inessive plural)
rockon (singular superessive)
rockokon (plural superessive)
rocknál (adessive singular)
rockoknál (adessive plural)
rockba (illative singular)
rockokba (illative plural)
rockra (singular sublative)
rockokra (plural sublative)
rockhoz (allative singular)
rockokhoz (allative plural)
rockból (elative singular)
rockokból (elative plural)
rockról (delative singular)
rockokról (delative plural)
rocktól (ablative singular)
rockoktól (ablative plural)
rocké (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
rockoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
rockéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
rockokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
rockom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
rockjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
rockod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
rockjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
rockja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
rockjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
rockunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
rockjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
rockotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
rockjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
rockjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
rockjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


rock

rock (indefinite nominative uncountable)
rocken (definite nominative uncountable)
rocks (genitive indefinite uncountable)
rockens (definite genitive uncountable)

(music, uncountable) rock, rock and roll


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


pizzicato

Borrowed from Italian pizzicato, past participle of pizzicare (“to pluck”).

(music) To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.


pizzicato

en-noun

pizzicato (plural pizzicatos or pizzicati)

The music is weaving / Haunting notes, pizzicato strings

“Trapeze” begins with pizzicatos that plunge into a circuslike cacophony with rapid trills, busy, clashing textures and motion in every direction.

2007 May 7, Vivien Schweitzer, “Players With No Conductor and, Increasingly, With No Fear”, in New York Times: