different between harpe vs harper

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?

English

Etymology

From Middle English harpere, from Old English hearpere (“harpist, harper”), equivalent to harp +? -er. Cognate with Middle Low German harpære (“harper”), German Harfer and Harfner (“harper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)p?(?)/

Noun

harper (plural harpers)

1. A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals.
2. (obsolete) An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.
   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed

     the harper that was gathered amongst us to pay the piper

Synonyms

• harp-player
• harpist

Derived terms

• Harper

References

• 2011. You Can Teach Yourself Lever Harp. Laurie Riley, Beth A. Kolle. Page 8.

Danish

Noun

harper c

1. indefinite plural of harpe

French

Etymology

From Old High German harfan.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a?.pe/

Verb

harper

1. (transitive, intransitive) to grasp forcefully

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

harper m or f

1. indefinite plural of harpe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

harper f

1. indefinite plural of harpe

Old French

Verb

harper

1. to play the harp

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ps, *-pt are modified to s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.