different between guitar vs harmonica

English

Alternative forms

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic ?????????? (q???ra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t??/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• IPA^(key): /?i?t??/
• IPA^(key): /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

  Hyphenation: gui?tar

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

2. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Synonyms

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lute
• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• Ugarit

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?itar/, [???it????]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection

English

Etymology

German Harmonika; compare harmonic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??.?m?.n?.k?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.?m?.n?.k?/

Noun

harmonica (plural harmonicas)

1. a musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note
2. a musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
3. a toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

Synonyms

• French harp
• gob iron
• Mississippi sax
• mouth harp
• mouth organ
• tin sandwich

Derived terms

• glass harmonica
• harmonicaist (dated)
• harmonicist

Translations

Anagrams

• charmonia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English harmonica (“musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses”), coined by Benjamin Franklin as armonica based on Italian armonica, from Latin harmonica, feminine of harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “harmony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r?mo?.ni.ka?/
• Hyphenation: har?mo?ni?ca

Noun

harmonica f (plural harmonica's)

1. harmonica, mouth harp (portable wind instrument)

   Synonym: mondharmonica

2. harmonica, glass harmonica (musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses)

   Synonym: glasharmonica

Derived terms

• glasharmonica
• handharmonica
• harmonicabus
• knopharmonica
• mondharmonica
• trekharmonica

French

Etymology

German Harmonika; compare harmonique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.m?.ni.ka/

Noun

harmonica m (plural harmonicas)

1. harmonica

References

• “harmonica” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).