different between saxophone vs harp

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“phone”), from Ancient Greek ???? (ph?n?, “voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæks?fo?n/

Noun

saxophone (plural saxophones)

1. (music) A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

   Synonyms: sax, gobble-pipe, saxomaphone

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• saxophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Wilson, R.M., and Reaney, Percy H., Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1995.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak.s?.f?n/
• Homophones: saxophonent, saxophones

Noun

saxophone m (plural saxophones)

1. saxophone

Verb

saxophone

1. first-person singular present indicative of saxophoner
2. third-person singular present indicative of saxophoner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saxophoner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of saxophoner
5. second-person singular imperative of saxophoner

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