woodwind instrument

woodwind instrument

English

Noun

woodwind instrument (plural woodwind instruments)

1. (music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column.

Synonyms

• woodwind

Hyponyms

• bagpipe
• bassoon
• clarinet
• concertina
• English horn

• flute
• oboe
• piccolo
• shakuhachi

Translations

musical instrument

Arabic: آلَة نفخ خَشَبِيَّة‎ f (ʾālat nafx xašabiyya) Catalan: instrument de fusta Chinese: Mandarin: 木管樂器 (zh), 木管乐器 (zh) (mùguǎn yuèqì) Min Nan: phín-siau Czech: dřevěný nástroj m, dřevěný dechový nástroj m Danish: træblæser Dutch: houtblazer (nl) Esperanto: ligna blovinstrumento Estonian: puupuhkpill Finnish: puupuhallin (fi) French: bois (fr) m, instrument à vent en bois m German: Holzblasinstrument (de) n Greek: όργανο καλάμων (órgano kalámon) Hebrew: כלי נשיפה מעץ‎ Icelandic: tréblásturshljóðfæri n Indonesian: instrumen woodwind Italian: legni (it) m pl

Japanese: 木管楽器 (ja) (もっかんがっき, mokkangakki) Korean: 목관 악기 (mokgwan akgi) Latin: instrumentum ligni et venti n Macedonian: дрвен дувачки инструмент m (d'rven dúvački instrumént) Maori: taonga pūhau Norwegian: treblåseinstrument Polish: instrument dęty drewniany m Portuguese: madeira (pt) f Quechua: qiru phukuna waqachina Russian: деревя́нный духово́й инструме́нт m (derevjánnyj duxovój instrumént) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: дрвени дувачки инструмент m Roman: drveni duvački instrument m Slovak: drevený dychový nástroj m Slovene: pihalni instrument m Spanish: instrumento de viento-madera Swedish: träblåsinstrument (sv) Turkish: tahta nefesli çalgı (tr)