different between harp vs harpe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??p/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p

Noun

harp (plural harps)

1. (music) 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
   1. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• harp seal

Translations

See also

• lyre

References

• 2013. The Physics of Musical Instruments. Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing. Pg. 331.

Verb

harp (third-person singular simple present harps, present participle harping, simple past and past participle harped)

1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

   (US)

   (UK)

2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
3. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
4. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Synonyms

• keep on about
• perseverate

Translations

Anagrams

• PHAR

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch harpe, from Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rp
• IPA^(key): /??rp/

Noun

harp f or m (plural harpen, diminutive harpje n)

1. harp

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (harb), borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?arb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?rp/

Noun

harp (definite accusative harb?, plural harplar)

1. (dated) war

   Synonyms: sava?, cenk

Derived terms

• Büyük Harp
• Cihan Harbi

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?arf).

Noun

harp (definite accusative harpy, plural harplar)

1. letter (of an alphabet)

Declension

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ???? (hárp?)

Noun

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English harpe

Noun

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp

Anagrams

• Phrae, hepar, phare, raphe

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish harpæ, from Old Norse harpa (“harp”), from Proto-Germanic *harp?. Compare Norwegian Bokmål harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /harp?/, [?h??b??]

Noun

harpe c (singular definite harpen, plural indefinite harper)

1. (music) harp

Declension

References

• “harpe” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a?p/

Noun

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (music) harp (musical instrument)

Derived terms

• harpiste

Verb

harpe

1. inflection of harper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• phare

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (hárp?, “bird of prey, falcon, scimitar”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?har.pe?/, [?härpe?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.pe/, [??rp?]

Noun

harp? f (genitive harp?s); first declension

1. a curved sickle-shaped sword, scimitar
2. bird of prey, hawk, falcon, tiercel or goshawk (falco gentilis)

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

• Catalan: arpa
• Italian: arpa
• Occitan: arpa
• Sicilian: arpa

References

• harpe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• harpe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Noun

harpe f

1. harp, lyre

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: harp

Further reading

• “harpe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “harpe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• harp

Noun

harpe (plural harpes)

1. harp

Descendants

• English: harp

Norman

Etymology

From Old French harpe, from Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Noun

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (Jersey) harp

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?. Compare with Danish harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Noun

harpe f or m (definite singular harpa or harpen, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

1. (music) a harp

Derived terms

• harpeleik

References

• “harpe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Noun

harpe f (definite singular harpa, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

1. (music) harp

Derived terms

• harpeleik

References

• “harpe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *harp?, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?har.p?/

Noun

harpe f (oblique plural harpes, nominative singular harpe, nominative plural harpes)

1. harp

Related terms

• harper
• harpere

Descendants

• Middle French: harpe
  • French: harpe
• Norman: harpe (Jersiais)
• Picard: hârpe (Athois)
• Walloon: ârpe (Forrières)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?har.pe]

Noun

harpe f pl

1. plural of harp?