harp
A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of…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
» I also play the harp.
Я також граю на арфі.
Meaning
6 sensesA 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
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.
Any musical instrument.
(colloquial)A harmonica.
Harfe
а́рфаárfa
а́рфаárfa
(colloquial)A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
(Scotland)A grain sieve.
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 sentencesI also play the harp.
Я також граю на арфі.
It's a harp.
Це арфа.
ruЭто арфа.
deDas ist eine Harfe.
It isn't easy to play the harp.
Tom knows how to play the harp.
ruТом умеет играть на арфе.
I'd like to learn to play the harp.
ruЯ хотела бы научиться играть на арфе.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harFrom 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: harpsSynonyms
4 synonyms- 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