clarinet

clarinet

English

Clarinets.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian clarinetto, diminutive of clarino (“trumpet”) (as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet), from Latin clarus.

Alternatively, the word may come from French clarinette, diminutive form of clarine (“bell”), from clarin, from clair (“clear”), from Latin clarus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌklæɹɪˈnɛt/, /ˌklɛɹɪˈnɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

clarinet (plural clarinets)

1. (music) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

   Synonym: agony-pipe

Derived terms

• alto clarinet
• bass clarinet
• basset clarinet
• clarinetist
• contrabass clarinet
• soprano clarinet

 

Translations

woodwind musical instrument

Afrikaans: klarinet Albanian: klarinetë (sq) f Arabic: كْلَارِينِيت‎ m (klārīnīt) Aragonese: clarinet m Armenian: կլարնետ (hy) (klarnet) Asturian: clarinete m Azerbaijani: klarnet Basque: klarinete Belarusian: кларне́т m (klarnjét) Bengali: ক্ল্যারিওনেট (klẏarioneṭ) Breton: klarinetenn f Bulgarian: кларинет m (klarinet) Burmese: ကလယ်ရီနက် (ka.lairinak), ကလဲရီနက် (ka.lai:rinak) Catalan: clarinet (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 單簧管, 单簧管 (daan1 wong4 gun2) Mandarin: 單簧管／单簧管 (zh) (dānhuángguǎn), 豎笛／竖笛 (zh) (shùdí), 黑管 (zh) (hēiguǎn) Min Nan: 烏笛仔 (zh-min-nan), 乌笛仔 (o͘-ta̍t-á) Czech: klarinet (cs) m Danish: klarinet (da) c Dutch: klarinet (nl) m or f Esperanto: klarneto Estonian: klarnet Faroese: klarinett f Finnish: klarinetti (fi) French: clarinette (fr) f Friulian: clarinet m Galician: clarinete (gl) m Georgian: კლარნეტი (ḳlarneṭi) German: Klarinette (de) f Greek: κλαρινέτο (el) n (klarinéto) Hebrew: קְלַרְנִית‎ (he) f (klarniet) Hindi: शहनाई (hi) f (śahnāī) Hungarian: klarinét (hu) Icelandic: klarínetta f, klarínett n Indonesian: klarinet (id) Irish: clairnéid f Italian: clarinetto (it) m Japanese: クラリネット (ja) (kurarinetto) Kalmyk: биив (biiv) Kazakh: кларнет (klarnet) Korean: 클라리넷 (ko) (keullarinet) Kyrgyz: кларнет (klarnet) Latin: clarinetum n Latvian: klarnete f Ligurian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: klarnetas m Lombard: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: кларинет m (klarinet) Malay: klarinet (ms) Maltese: klarinett m Maori: pūtahoro, rehu matangi Mongolian: кларнет (mn) (klarnet) Mongolian: ᠻᠯᠠᠷᠨᠧᠲ᠋ (khlarnēt) Norman: clairinnette f Norwegian: Bokmål: klarinett m Nynorsk: klarinett m Persian: کلارینت‎ (fa) (kelârinet) Piedmontese: clarinèt m Polish: klarnet (pl) m Portuguese: clarinete (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: clarinet (ro) n, clarinetă (ro) f Russian: кларне́т (ru) m (klarnét) Scottish Gaelic: clàirneid f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кларѝне̄т m Roman: klarìnēt (sh) m Slovak: klarinet m Slovene: klarinet (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: klarineta f Spanish: clarinete (es) m Swahili: nzumari Swedish: klarinett (sv) c Tagalog: klarinete Tajik: кларнет (klarnet) Thai: คลาริเน็ต (klaa-rí-nèt) Turkish: klarnet (tr) Turkmen: klarnet Ukrainian: кларне́т (uk) m (klarnét) Uyghur: كلارىنېت‎ (klarinët) Uzbek: klarnet (uz) Vietnamese: (kèn) cla-ri-nét Volapük: klarinät (vo) Welsh: clarinét m Yiddish: קלאַרנעט‎ m (klarnet)

See also

• chalumeau

External links

• Clarinet
• Clarion

Anagrams

• INTERCAL, litracen

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /klə.ɾiˈnət/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /klə.ɾiˈnɛt/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kla.ɾiˈnet/

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Noun

clarinet m (plural clarinets)

1. clarinet

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Friulian

Noun

clarinet m (plural clarinets)

1. clarinet

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Romanian

Etymology

From French clarinette or German Klarinette.

Noun

clarinet n (plural clarinete)

1. (music) clarinet

Declension

Declension of clarinet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) clarinet	clarinetul	(niște) clarinete	clarinetele
genitive/dative	(unui) clarinet	clarinetului	(unor) clarinete	clarinetelor
vocative	clarinetule		clarinetelor

Synonyms

• clarinetă