different between harpe vs harpy

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

Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (Hárpuia, literally “snatcher”), from ?????? (harpáz?, “I snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??pi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??pi/
• Rhymes: -??(r)pi
• Hyphenation: har?py

Noun

harpy (plural harpies)

1. A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on hers hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
2. A shrewish woman.
3. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
   • c. 1772, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury

     The harpies about me all pocket the pool.

4. The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).
5. A large and powerful double-crested, short-winged American eagle (Harpia harpyja).

Synonyms

• (shrewish woman): See Thesaurus:shrew

Derived terms

• harpy bat
• harpy fly
• harpy eagle

Translations

See also

• harridan

Turkmen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?rp?/

Noun

harpy

1. definite accusative of harp