cornet

→ English: cornet

→ Switzerland German: Cornet

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

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

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


bois

fr-noun

bois m (countable and uncountable, plural bois)

Inherited from Middle French bois, boys, boiz, from Old French bosc, bois, from Late Latin boscus or Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”). Compare Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque, Dutch bos and English bush.

der

croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens, je vais en enfer

Coordinate term: cuivre


bugle

Borrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.


bugle

Inherited from Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillō (cf. bouillon).


cor anglais

→ Greek: κορ ανγκλέ (kor angklé)

/kɔ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛ/

Calque of Middle High German engellisches horn (“angelic horn”), by misunderstanding.


musette

Inherited from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is a deverbal of muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).


trompette

→ Portuguese: trompete, trompeta

Debout devant la fenêtre, nous jouons de la trompette.
Debout devant la fenêtre, nous jouons de la trompette.
Sa trompette fait taratata.
Ta trompette fait taratata.
Ma trompette, ma trompette, ma trompette fait taratata.
Sa trompette fait taratata.
Ta trompette fait taratata.
Ma trompette, ma trompette, ma trompette fait taratata.

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

Standing in front of the window, we play the trumpet.
Standing in front of the window, we play the trumpet.
Their trumpet goes taratata.
Your trumpet goes taratata.
My trumpet, my trumpet, my trumpet goes taratata.
Their trumpet goes taratata.
Your trumpet goes taratata.
My trumpet, my trumpet, my trumpet goes taratata.


cornemuse

Italian: cornamusa

Spanish: cornamusa

From Old French corner (“sound a horn”) + muser (“play the bagpipe”).


vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.


chalumeau

→ English: chalumeau

desc

→ North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)

→ Turkish: şalümo

Inherited from Old French chalemel, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”). Doublet of caramel.


flûte

→ Italian: flute, flûte

→ Luxembourgish: Flütt

→ Walloon: flûte

→ Volapük: flut (possibly)

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.


flageolet

Borrowed from Italian fagiolo (“bean”), from Latin phaseolus (“bean”), diminutive form of phasēlus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean”).

der

A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.


hautbois

→ English: hautboy

→ Hungarian: oboa

→ Italian: oboè (obsolete), oboe

→ Korean: 오보에 (obo'e)

desctree

→ Russian: гобо́й (gobój)
→ Armenian: հոբոյ (hoboy)
→ Azerbaijani: qoboy
→ Georgian: ჰობოი (hoboi)
→ Kazakh: гобой (goboi)

→ Spanish: oboe

→ Turkish: obua

→ Vietnamese: ô-boa

Univerbation of haut bois (“high (pitched) wood(wind)”).


bombardon

bombardon, certain bass instruments, notably a tuba


bombarde

→ Italian: bombarda

From Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).

uder

(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument


basson

Borrowed from Italian bassone, from basso (“bass”) + augmentative suffix -one.

bassoon (musical instrument in the woodwind family)


bombyx

From Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux).

(archaic, obsolete) a type of woodwind instrument


mirliton

→ English: mirliton

reed-pipe (flute-like instrument made from a reed that is sealed at both ends using an onion peel)


clairon

(music) bugle (music: a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves)


biniou

Borrowed from Breton binioù, plural of béni.


flûte à bec

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-flûte à bec.wav


chabrette

→ English: chabrette


pipeau

From pipe (“pipe”) + -eau (“masculine diminutive suffix”).


flûte traversière

fr-noun

flûte traversière f (plural flûtes traversières)

Western concert flute
Western concert flute

transverse flute
transverse flute#English

(music) Western concert flute (a type of transverse flute)


flûte de Pan

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-flûte de Pan.wav


clarinette basse

clarinette basse f (plural clarinettes basses)


hautbois d'amour

hautbois d’amour f (plural hautbois d’amour)

hautbois d’amour (canonical feminine)
hautbois d’amour (plural)


cornet à pistons

cornet à pistons m (plural cornets à pistons)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: cornet à pistons

cornet (musical instrument of the brass family)


cor d'harmonie

cor d’harmonie m (plural cors d’harmonie)

cor d’ harmonie (canonical masculine)
cors d’harmonie (plural)

combination of cor (“horn”) + de (“of”) + harmonie (“harmony”).