French horn

English

Etymology

From French +‎ horn.

Noun

French horn (plural French horns)

1. A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
   • 2015 August 1, Vanessa Thorpe, “Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.

Derived terms

• French hornist

Translations

musical instrument

• Armenian: վալտորն (hy) (valtorn)
• Belarusian: валто́рна f (valtórna)
• Bulgarian: валдхо́рна (bg) f (valdhórna)
• Catalan: trompa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法國號 / 法国号 (zh) (Fǎguóhào), 圓號 / 圆号 (zh) (yuánhào)

• Corsican: cornu m
• Czech: lesní roh (cs) m
• Finnish: käyrätorvi (fi)
• French: cor d’harmonie (fr) m
• Georgian: ვალტორნა (valṭorna)
• German: Waldhorn n
• Hebrew: קרן יער (he) f (kéren yá'ar)
• Hungarian: kürt (hu), vadászkürt (hu)
• Italian: corno francese m, corno (it) m
• Lithuanian: valtorna f
• Polish: waltornia (pl) f, róg (pl) m
• Portuguese: trompa (pt) f
• Romanian: corn francez n, corn de armonie n
• Russian: валто́рна (ru) f (valtórna)
• Serbo-Croatian: хорна m
• Sicilian: cornu (scn) m
• Slovene: francoski rog m
• Spanish: trompa (es) f
• Swahili: baragumu ya kifaransa
• Swedish: valthorn (sv) n or n pl
• Ukrainian: валто́рна (uk) f (valtórna)
• Welsh: corn Ffrengig

See also

• double horn
• trumpet

Further reading

• French horn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia