xylophone

xylophone

See also: Xylophone

English

A xylophone

Etymology

From xylo- (“of wood”) +‎ -phone (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ.lə.ˌfəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: xy‧lo‧phone

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

   All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

Derived terms

• concert xylophone
• metal xylophone
• stone xylophone
• xylophonist

 

Translations

musical instrument

Afrikaans: xilofoon Albanian: ksilofon (sq) Arabic: سِيلُوفُون‎ m (sīlūfūn) Armenian: քսիլոֆոն (hy) (kʿsilofon) Asturian: xilófonu m Azerbaijani: ksilofon Basque: xilofono Belarusian: ксілафо́н m (ksilafón) Bulgarian: ксилофо́н m (ksilofón) Burmese: ပတ္တလား (my) (patta.la:) Catalan: xilòfon (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᏓ ᏗᎦᎾᎵ ᏗᎬᏅᏍᏙᏗ (ada diganali digvnvsdodi) Chinese: Cantonese: 木琴 (muk6 kam4) Mandarin: 木琴 (zh) (mùqín) Czech: xylofon (cs) m Danish: xylofon (da) c Dutch: xylofoon (nl) m Esperanto: ksilofono Estonian: ksülofon Faroese: sylofon f Finnish: ksylofoni (fi) French: xylophone (fr) m Galician: xilófono (gl) m German: Xylophon (de) n Greek: ξυλόφωνο (el) n (xylófono) Hebrew: קסילופון‎ (he) m (ksilofón) Hungarian: xilofon (hu) Icelandic: sílófónn m Ido: xilofono (io) Indonesian: xilofon (id) Irish: xileafón m Italian: xilofono (it) m Japanese: 木琴 (ja) (もっきん, mokkin), シロフォン (ja) (shirofon) Korean: 실로폰 (ko) (sillopon) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: darînk Latin: xylophonium n Latvian: ksilofons m Lithuanian: ksilofonas m Low German: German Low German: Xylophon, Xylofon Macedonian: ксилофон m (ksilofon) Malagasy: atranatrana (mg) Malay: xilofon (ms) Marathi: जाय्लोफोन m (jāylophon) Mirandese: xilofone Moksha: кальхциямат (kalʹxcijamat), ксилофон (ksilofon) Norwegian: Bokmål: xylofon m Nynorsk: xylofon m Persian: سنتور چوبی‎ Polish: ksylofon (pl) m inan Portuguese: xilofone (pt) m Romanian: xilofon (ro) m Russian: ксилофо́н (ru) m (ksilofón) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: ksilofon (sh) m Silesian: ksylofůn Sinhalese: සයිලොෆෝන් (sayilofōn) Slovak: xylofón m Slovene: ksilofon (sl) m Spanish: xilófono (es) m, marimba (es) f Swahili: zilofoni, marimba ya kizungu Swedish: xylofon (sv) c Tagalog: silopono Tamil: சுரம் இசைவி (curam icaivi) Thai: ระนาด (rá-nâat), ไซโลโฟน Tibetan: ཤིང་དཀྲོལ། (shing dkrol) Turkish: ksilofon (tr) Ukrainian: ксилофо́н m (ksylofón) Uzbek: ksilofon Vietnamese: mộc cầm Welsh: seiloffon m West Frisian: ksylofoan Yiddish: קסילאָפֿאָן‎ m (ksilofon)

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

References

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

Verb

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Anagrams

• oxyphenol

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French

Etymology

From xylo- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡzi.lɔ.fɔn/, /ksi.lɔ.fɔn/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

Descendants

• → Russian: ксилофо́н (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: xilofon
• → Turkish: ksilofon

Further reading

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