Meaning

6 senses
  1. A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body

    a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

  2. A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body

    Any instrument of the same musicological type.

  3. Any musical instrument.

    (colloquial)A harmonica.

    Harfe

    а́рфаárfa

    а́рфаárfa

  4. (colloquial)A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.

  5. (Scotland)A grain sieve.

  6. The component of a lamp to which one attaches the lampshade, consisting of a lightweight frame that usually surrounds the bulb with an attachment at the top for the finial.

Examples

56 sentences
  1. I also play the harp.

    Я також граю на арфі.

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  2. It's a harp.

    Це арфа.

    ruЭто арфа.

    deDas ist eine Harfe.

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  3. It isn't easy to play the harp.

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  4. Tom knows how to play the harp.

    ruТом умеет играть на арфе.

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  5. I'd like to learn to play the harp.

    ruЯ хотела бы научиться играть на арфе.

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Translations

9 languages
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Origin

From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *har

From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).

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Forms

plural: harps
Singularharp
Pluralharps

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole:harmonicamouth organmouth harp

Word family

21 related words

See also

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