stringed instrument

stringed instrument

English

Noun

stringed instrument (plural stringed instruments)

1. (music) Any of very many musical instruments in which taut strings are plucked, bowed or struck in order to produce a sound

Synonyms

• chordophone
• string in music only, usually in plural
• string instrument

Translations

type of musical instrument

Catalan: instrument cordòfon (ca) m, instrument de corda (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 弦樂器 (zh), 弦乐器 (zh) (xiányuèqì) Dutch: snaarinstrument (nl) n Esperanto: kordinstrumento Estonian: keelpill Finnish: kielisoitin (fi) French: instrument à cordes (fr) m German: Saiteninstrument (de) n Hungarian: húros hangszer, vonós Icelandic: strengjahljóðfæri (is) n Italian: strumento a corde m

Japanese: 弦楽器 (ja) (げんがっき, gengakki) Khmer: តន្ត្រី (dɑntrəy) Latvian: stīgu instruments m Macedonian: жичен инструмент m (žíčen instrumént) Maori: autangi Persian: ساز زهی‎ (sâz-e zehi) Polish: instrument strunowy m Portuguese: instrumento de corda m Russian: стру́нный инструме́нт m (strúnnyj instrumént) Spanish: instrumento de cuerda m Swedish: stränginstrument (sv) n Tagalog: bagtingang panugtog