panpipes

panpipes

See also: pan-pipes and pan pipes

English

Some panpipes

Alternative forms

• pan pipes
• panpipe

Etymology

From Pan (“Greek god of nature”) +‎ pipes.

Pronunciation

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Noun

panpipes pl (plural only)

1. (music) An instrument consisting of a series of ten or more tubes of different lengths, typically closed at the bottom and open at the top. The instrument is played by blowing across the open end at the top.

Synonyms

• Pandean pipes
• pan flute
• pan pipe
• pipes of Pan
• shepherd's pipe
• syrinx

Derived terms

• panpiper

Translations

musical instrument

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: սրինգ (hy) (sring) Bulgarian: пан-флейта f (pan-flejta) Catalan: flauta de Pan (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 排笛 (páidí), 潘笛 (Pāndí), 排簫／排箫 (zh) (páixiāo) Czech: panova flétna f Danish: panfløjte c Dutch: panfluit (nl) m or f Finnish: panhuilu (fi) French: flûte de Pan (fr) f Galician: frauta de Pan (gl) f, chifre (gl) m German: Panflöte (de) f Greek: σύριγγα (el) f (sýringa) Ancient: σῦριγξ f (sûrinx) Hungarian: pánsíp (hu) Icelandic: panflauta f Italian: flauto di Pan m Japanese: パンパイプ (panpaipu), パンフルート (panfurūto) Macedonian: панова флејта f (panova flejta) Polish: fletnia Pana (pl) f Portuguese: flauta de Pã f Quechua: siku Romanian: nai (ro) n Russian: пан-фле́йта f (pan-fléjta) Spanish: zampoña (es) f, flauta de Pan f Tok Pisin: mambu Turkish: panflüt

Further reading

• panpipes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia