oboe

oboe

See also: Oboe and oboé

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊboʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊbəʊ

Noun

oboe (plural oboes)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• baroque oboe
• bass oboe
• contrabass oboe
• oboe da caccia, oboe di caccia
• oboe d’amore
• oboist
• piccolo oboe

 

Translations

wind instrument

Afrikaans: hobo Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: أوبوا‎ Armenian: հոբոյ (hy) (hoboy) Basque: oboe Belarusian: габо́й m (habój) Breton: oboell Bulgarian: обой (bg) m (oboj) Catalan: oboè (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 雙簧管 (sēung wòhng gún) Mandarin: 雙簧管／双簧管 (zh) (shuānghuángguǎn) Wu: 雙簧管 (saon waon kuoe) Czech: hoboj (cs) Danish: obo c Dutch: hobo (nl) m Esperanto: hobojo Estonian: oboe (et) Faroese: obo f Finnish: oboe (fi) French: hautbois (fr) m Galician: óboe (gl) m Georgian: ჰობოი (ka) (hoboi) German: Oboe (de) f Gilbertese: oboe Greek: όμποε (el) m (ómpoe), οξύαυλος (el) m (oxýavlos) Hawaiian: puhi ʻohe ʻopo Hebrew: אבוב‎ (he) (abúv) Hungarian: oboa (hu) Icelandic: óbó (is) n Ido: hoboyo (io) Indonesian: obo (id) Interlingua: oboe Irish: óbó m Italian: oboe (it) m Japanese: オーボエ (ja) (ōboe) Korean: 오보에 (ko) (obo'e) Latvian: oboja f Lithuanian: obojus m Luxembourgish: hautbois m Macedonian: обоа f (oboa) Manx: obo m Maori: rehu matangi, pūtōiri Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠮᠪᠦᠬᠦᠷ (ǰimbükür), жимбүүр (mn) (žimbüür) Ngazidja Comorian: ndzumari Norwegian: Bokmål: obo (no) m Nynorsk: obo m Occitan: clarin m, autbòi m Persian: ابوا‎ (fa), قره‌نی‎ Polish: obój (pl) m Portuguese: oboé (pt) m Romanian: oboi (ro) m Russian: гобо́й (ru) m (gobój) Scottish Gaelic: òboidh f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: обоа f Roman: oboa (sh) f Slovak: hoboj (sk) m Slovene: oboa (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: oboa f Spanish: oboe (es) m Swahili: nzumari ndogo Swedish: oboe (sv) c Tagalog: obo Turkish: obua (tr) Ukrainian: гобо́й m (hobój) Uyghur: گوبوي‎ (goboy) Vietnamese: kèn ôboa Volapük: please add this translation if you can Welsh: obo m Yiddish: אָבאָע‎ f (oboe)

See also

• cor anglais
• hautboy

Anagrams

• Booe, OEOB, OOBE

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian oboe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoboe/, [ˈo̞bo̞e̞]
• Rhymes: -oboe
• Syllabification^(key): o‧bo‧e

Noun

oboe

1. (music) oboe

Declension

Inflection of oboe (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
nominative		oboe	oboet
genitive		oboen	oboeiden oboeitten
partitive		oboeta	oboeita
illative		oboeen	oboeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		oboe	oboet
accusative	nom.	oboe	oboet
	gen.	oboen
genitive		oboen	oboeiden oboeitten
partitive		oboeta	oboeita
inessive		oboessa	oboeissa
elative		oboesta	oboeista
illative		oboeen	oboeihin
adessive		oboella	oboeilla
ablative		oboelta	oboeilta
allative		oboelle	oboeille
essive		oboena	oboeina
translative		oboeksi	oboeiksi
instructive		—	oboein
abessive		oboetta	oboeitta
comitative		—	oboeineen

Possessive forms of oboe (type valtio)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	oboeni	oboemme
2nd person	oboesi	oboenne
3rd person	oboensa

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Italian

Alternative forms

• oboè (obsolete)

Etymology

From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bo.e/
• Rhymes: -ɔboe
• Hyphenation: ò‧bo‧e

Noun

oboe m (plural oboi)

1. (music) oboe
2. (metonymically) oboist

Further reading

• oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Spanish

Etymology

From French hautbois.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈboe/ [oˈβ̞o.e]
• Rhymes: -oe
• Syllabification: o‧bo‧e

Noun

oboe m (plural oboes)

1. (music) oboe

References

1. “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading

• “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

oboe c

1. (music) an oboe

Declension

Declension of oboe
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	oboe	oboen	oboer	oboerna
Genitive	oboes	oboens	oboers	oboernas

Related terms

• oboist