different between marimba vs xylophone

English

Etymology

From Portuguese marimba, via a Bantu source, perhaps Kimbundu marimba (“xylophone”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?-r?m?b?, IPA^(key): /m?.???m.b?/
• Hyphenation: marim?ba

Noun

marimba (plural marimbas)

1. (music) A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch.

   Synonym: (also a separate instrument, but in musical scores, marimbaphone may refer to the classic marimba) marimbaphone

   Hyponyms: glass marimba, stone marimba

   • 2009, Scott Kelby, Terry White, The iPhone Book, Third Edition (Covers iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch), Peachpit Press (?ISBN)

     The default ringtone for your iPhone is a marimba sound, but if you'd like to change it, start at the Home screen, then tap on the Settings icon.

Derived terms

• marimbist, marimbaist
• xylorimba

Translations

Further reading

• marimba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cebuano

Etymology

From English marimba, from Portuguese, from Bantu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma?rim?ba

Noun

marimba

1. a marimba

Dutch

Etymology

From Portuguese marimba.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma?rim?ba

Noun

marimba c (plural marimba's, diminutive marimbaatje n)

1. marimba

Finnish

Noun

marimba

1. (music) marimba

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?im.ba/

Noun

marimba m (plural marimbas)

1. marimba

Portuguese

Noun

marimba f (plural marimbas)

1. marimba (musical instrument similar to a xylophone)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar?mba/
• Hyphenation: ma?rim?ba

Noun

marìmba m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. marimba

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??imba/, [ma???m.ba]

Noun

marimba f (plural marimbas)

1. marimba

Further reading

• “marimba” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

marimba (n class, plural marimba)

1. marimba

English

Etymology

From xylo- (“of wood”) +? -phone (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: z??l?-f?n', IPA^(key): /?za?.l?.?f??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?za?l??fo?n/
• Hyphenation: xy?lo?phone

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

References

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

Verb

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Anagrams

• oxyphenol

French

Etymology

From xylo- +? -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?zi.l?.f?n/, /ksi.l?.f?n/

Noun

xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

Descendants

• ? Russian: ????????? (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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