ocarina

ocarina

English

An ocarina

Alternative forms

• ochorina

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ocarina (literally “little goose”), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒkəˈɹiːnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑkəˈɹinə/, /oʊkəˈɹinə/

• Audio (New England)

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Noun

ocarina (plural ocarinas)

1. (music) A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.

Derived terms

• ocarinist

Translations

musical instrument

Arabic: أكرين‎ (akrin) Armenian: օկարինա (hy) (ōkarina) Azerbaijani: okarina Catalan: ocarina (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 陶笛 (tou4 dek6) Mandarin: 陶笛 (zh) (táodí) Czech: okarína (cs) f Danish: ocarina c, okarina c Dutch: ocarina (nl) m or f Esperanto: okarino Estonian: okariin Finnish: okariina (fi) French: ocarina (fr) m Friulian: ocarine f Galician: ocarina (gl) f Georgian: ოქარინა (okarina) German: Okarina (de) f Greek: οκαρίνα (el) f (okarína) Hebrew: אוקרינה‎ Hungarian: okarina (hu) Icelandic: okkarína (is) f Ido: okarino (io) Irish: ócairín m Italian: ocarina (it) f Japanese: オカリナ (ja) (okarina) Khmer: អូការីណា (ʼoukaariinaa) Korean: 오카리나 (okarina) Lao: ໂອກາລິນາ (ʼō kā li nā) Latvian: okarīna Lithuanian: okarina Maltese: okarina Manx: please add this translation if you can Nahuatl: huilacapītztli Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can Polish: okaryna (pl) f Portuguese: ocarina (pt) f Romanian: ocarină (ro) f Russian: окари́на (ru) f (okarína) Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: окари́на f Roman: okarína (sh) f Slovene: okarína (sl) f Spanish: ocarina (es) f Swedish: okarina (sv) c, lergök (sv) c Thai: โอคาริน่า Turkish: okarina (tr) Welsh: ocarina f Yiddish: אָקאַרינע‎ f (okarine)

See also

• vessel flute

Anagrams

• Aaronic

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Catalan

Etymology

From Italian ocarina.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.kəˈɾi.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.kəˈɾi.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.kaˈɾi.na/

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarines)

1. ocarina

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French

Noun

ocarina m (plural ocarinas)

1. ocarina

Further reading

• “ocarina”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of oca (“goose”), derived from Vulgar Latin *auca < Late Latin *avica, from classical Latin avis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.kaˈri.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧rì‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarine)

1. (music) ocarina

Anagrams

• ancorai, arancio, cariano, carnaio

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.kaˈɾĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.kaˈɾĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.kaˈɾi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.kɐˈɾi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧ri‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarinas)

1. (music) ocarina (an oval wind instrument)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Italian ocarina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /okaˈɾina/ [o.kaˈɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: o‧ca‧ri‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarinas)

1. ocarina

Further reading

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