"oboe" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈoʊboʊ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-oboe.ogg Forms: oboes [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊbəʊ Etymology: An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|it|oboè}} Italian oboè, {{uder|en|fr|-}} French Head templates: {{en-noun}} oboe (plural oboes)
  1. (music) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. Wikidata QID: Q8377 Wikipedia link: oboe Categories (topical): Woodwind instruments Derived forms: baroque oboe, bass oboe, contrabass oboe, oboe da caccia, oboe di caccia, oboe d’amore, oboe-player, oboist, piccolo oboe, pink oboe Related terms: cor anglais, hautboy Translations (wind instrument): hobo (Afrikaans), أُوبُوَا (ʔūbuwā) (Arabic), հոբոյ (hoboy) (Armenian), oboe (Basque), габо́й (habój) [masculine] (Belarusian), oboell (Breton), обой (oboj) [masculine] (Bulgarian), oboè [masculine] (Catalan), 雙簧管 (Chinese Cantonese), 双簧管 (soeng¹ wong⁴ gun²) (Chinese Cantonese), 雙簧管 (Chinese Mandarin), 双簧管 (shuānghuángguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), hoboj (Czech), obo [common-gender] (Danish), hobo [masculine] (Dutch), hobojo (Esperanto), oboe (Estonian), obo [feminine] (Faroese), oboe (Finnish), hautbois [masculine] (French), óboe [masculine] (Galician), ჰობოი (hoboi) (Georgian), Oboe [feminine] (German), oboe (Gilbertese), όμποε (ómpoe) [masculine] (Greek), οξύαυλος (oxýavlos) [masculine] (Greek), puhi ʻohe ʻopo (Hawaiian), אבוב (abúv) (Hebrew), oboa (Hungarian), óbó [neuter] (Icelandic), hoboyo (Ido), obo (Indonesian), oboe (Interlingua), óbó [masculine] (Irish), oboe [masculine] (Italian), オーボエ (ōboe) (Japanese), 오보에 (obo'e) (Korean), oboja [feminine] (Latvian), obojus [masculine] (Lithuanian), oboa [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), hautbois [masculine] (Luxembourgish), обоа (oboa) [feminine] (Macedonian), obo [masculine] (Manx), rehu matangi (Maori), pūtōiri (Maori), ᠵᠢᠮᠪᠦᠬᠦᠷ (ǰimbükür) (Mongolian), жимбүүр (žimbüür) (Mongolian), ndzumari (Ngazidja Comorian), obo [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), obo [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), clarin [masculine] (Occitan), autbòi [masculine] (Occitan), ابوا (Persian), قرهنی (Persian), obój [masculine] (Polish), oboé [masculine] (Portuguese), oboi [neuter] (Romanian), гобо́й (gobój) [masculine] (Russian), òboidh [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), обоа [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), oboa [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), hoboj [masculine] (Slovak), oboa [feminine] (Slovene), oboe [masculine] (Spanish), nzumari ndogo (Swahili), oboe [common-gender] (Swedish), obo (Tagalog), obua (Turkish), гобо́й (hobój) [masculine] (Ukrainian), گوبوي (goboy) (Uyghur), kèn ôboa (Vietnamese), obo [masculine] (Welsh), 雙簧管 (Wu Chinese), 双簧管 (¹saon-waon-kuoe) (Wu Chinese), אָבאָע (oboe) [feminine] (Yiddish)
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      "word": "ჰობოი"
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      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hautbois"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "oboa",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "обоа"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "obo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "rehu matangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "pūtōiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "ǰimbükür",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "ᠵᠢᠮᠪᠦᠬᠦᠷ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "žimbüür",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "жимбүүр"
    },
    {
      "code": "zdj",
      "lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "ndzumari"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "obo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "obo"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "clarin"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "autbòi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "ابوا"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "قرهنی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "obój"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oboé"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "oboi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gobój",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гобо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "òboidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "обоа"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oboa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hoboj"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oboa"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oboa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "oboe"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "nzumari ndogo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "oboe"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "obo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "obua"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hobój",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гобо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "goboy",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "گوبوي"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "word": "kèn ôboa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "obo"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "oboe",
      "sense": "wind instrument",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אָבאָע"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oboe"
}

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