different between violin vs rebec

English

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?va???l?n/, [?va?????l?n]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?v?e?l?n/, /?v?e.??l?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

violin (plural violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.

   Synonym: fiddle
2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

Derived terms

Related terms

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (baiorin)
• ? Korean: ???? (baiollin)

Translations

Verb

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola

Anagrams

• olivin

Catalan

Verb

violin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

Danish

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /violi?n/, [vio?li??n]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

Declension

References

• “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “violin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?li?/

Noun

violin m (plural violin)

1. violin

English

Etymology

From Middle French rebec, alteration of rubebe, from Arabic ??????? (rab?b).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?b?k/, /???b?k/

Noun

rebec (plural rebecs)

1. (music) An early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     The villages also must have their visitors to enquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebbeck reads ev'n to the ballatry, and the gammuth of every municipal fidler, for these are the Countrymans Arcadia's and his Monte Mayors.

Derived terms

• rebecist

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• BEREC

Catalan

Adjective

rebec (feminine rebeca, masculine plural rebecs, feminine plural rebeques)

1. rebellious, unruly, disobedient

Derived terms

• rebequeria

Further reading

• “rebec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rebec” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “rebec” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rebec” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Noun

rebec

1. (music) rebec

Declension

French

Etymology

From Middle French rebec, ultimately from from Arabic ??????? (rab?b). Compare Italian ribeca.

Noun

rebec m (plural rebecs)

1. rebec

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rubebe, ultimately from Arabic ??????? (rab?b).

Noun

rebec m (plural rebecs)

1. rebec

Romanian

Etymology

From French rebec.

Noun

rebec n (plural rebecuri)

1. rebec

Declension