bagpipes

See also: Bagpipes

English

Bagpipes (a Scottish model)

Alternative forms

bagpipe

Etymology

From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag +‎ pipes.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡ.pɑɪps/
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Noun

bagpipes pl (normally plural, singular bagpipe)

A musical wind instrument of Celtic origin, possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.
- 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 250:
  “Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”
Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.

Synonyms

(musical wind instrument): bagpipe, pipes; the pipes (usually Scottish)

Meronyms

(musical wind instrument): mouthpiece, neck, chanter, chanter reed, chanter reed protector, bass drone, tenor drone

Derived terms

bagpipe lung
bagpiper

Translations

musical wind instrument

Arabic: مِزْمَار اَلْقِرْبَة‎ m (mizmār al-qirba), قِرْبَة‎ f (qirba)
Armenian: պարկապզուկ (hy) (parkapzuk)
Asturian: gaita (ast) f
Belarusian: валы́нка f (valýnka)
Breton: biniou (br)
Bulgarian: га́йда (bg) f (gájda)
Catalan: cornamusa (ca) f, gaita (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 風笛／风笛 (zh) (fēngdí)
Cornish: pibow sagh
Czech: dudy (cs) pl
Danish: sækkepibe
Dutch: doedelzak (nl) m
Esperanto: sakŝalmo
Estonian: torupill, sikupill (archaic)
Faroese: sekkjapípa f
Finnish: säkkipilli (fi)
French: cornemuse (fr) f
Galician: gaita (gl) f
Georgian: გუდასტვირი (gudasṭviri)
German: Dudelsack (de) m, Sackpfeife f
Greek: γκάιντα (el) f (gkáinta), άσκαυλος (el) m (áskavlos)
Hebrew: חֵמֶת חֲלִילִים‎ (he) pl (ḥémet ḥalilím)
Hindi: बैगपाइप (baigpāip)
Hungarian: duda (hu)
Icelandic: sekkjapípa f
Ido: kornamuzo (io)
Irish: píb f, píb mhála f
Italian: cornamusa (it) f, zampogna (it) f, pive f
Japanese: バグパイプ (bagupaipu)
Kazakh: желбуаз (jelbuaz)
Korean: 백파이프 (baekpaipeu)
Latvian: dūdas, somas stabules f pl
Lithuanian: dūdmaišis f
Luxembourgish: Duddelsak (lb)
Macedonian: гајда f (gajda)
Malay: begpaip
Mirandese: gaita de fuolhes
Nahuatl: ehuatlapitzalli
Norman: pouque à vent f
Norwegian: sekkepipe m or f
Ottoman Turkish: غایده‎ (gâyda), طولوم‎ (tulum)
Persian: نی‌انبان‎
Polish: dudy (pl) pl
Portuguese: gaita de foles (pt) f
Romanian: cimpoi (ro) n, cimpoaie f, gaidă (ro) f
Russian: волы́нка (ru) f (volýnka)
Scottish Gaelic: pìob f, (Scottish) pìob-mhòr f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дуде f, гајде f
Roman: dude (sh) f, gajde (sh) f
Slovak: gajdy (sk) f pl
Slovene: dude (sl) f pl
Spanish: gaita (es) f
Swahili: bagpipes, gaida
Swedish: säckpipa (sv) c
Tagalog: gayta
Turkish: gayda (tr)
Ukrainian: воли́нка f (volýnka)
Vietnamese: kèn túi
Welsh: pibgod (cy) f

References

1999. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Fintan Vallely. Pg. 14.