fingerboard

fingerboard

English

A fingerboard: ⑤.

Etymology

finger +‎ board

Noun

fingerboard (plural fingerboards)

1. (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
2. A miniature skateboard that is driven with the fingers.

Translations

part of musical instrument

Bulgarian: гриф m (grif) Czech: hmatník (cs) m Danish: gribebræt n Dutch: toets (nl) m Finnish: otelauta (fi) French: touche (fr) f German: Griffbrett n Greek: ταστιέρα (el) f (tastiéra) Hebrew: שְׁחִיף‎ (he)

Icelandic: fingraborð n, fingrabretti n Irish: méarchlár (ga) m Italian: tastiera (it) f Japanese: 指板 (しばん, shiban) Maori: paparipa Portuguese: espelho (pt) m Russian: гриф (ru) m (grif), клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra) Spanish: traste m Swedish: greppbräda c

miniature skateboard

Finnish: sormiskeittilauta

Icelandic: fingrabretti n

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

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