different between shawm vs zurna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chalemel (French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kálamos). Doublet of chalumeau and probably caramel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

shawm (plural shawms)

1. A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked,

     There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.

Synonyms

• zurna

Derived terms

• Catalan shawm
• shawmist, shawmer
• still shawm

Translations

Anagrams

• hawms, whams

English

Alternative forms

• sornai
• surla
• surnay
• zournas
• zurla
• zurma

Etymology

From Turkish zurna, from Persian ????? (sornâ); see there for more. Cognate with English horn, Latin cornu (“horn”).

Noun

zurna (plural zurnas)

1. (music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.

Synonyms

• sorna
• shawm
• suona

Translations

Anagrams

• azurn, runza

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (zurnâ), from Persian ????? (sornâ), contraction of ??????? (surnây).

Noun

zurna f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (music) zurna

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ????? (sornâ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [zu?n?]
• Hyphenation: zur?na

Noun

zurna

1. (music) zurna

Declension