harmonica

See also: harmónica, harmònica, and harmônica

English

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harmonica

Etymology

From armonica, coined by Benjamin Franklin to refer to his glass harmonica, an instrument that predated the small wind instrument by several decades.^[1] Doublet of harmonic.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑɹˈmɒ.nɪ.kə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑɹˈmɑ.nɪ.kə/

Noun

harmonica (plural harmonicas)

A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.
A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Dutch: harmonica
→ German: Harmonika
- → French: harmonica
- →? Plautdietsch: Harmonika
- → Polish: harmonika
- → Upper Sorbian: harmonika
→ Spanish: armónica
→ Japanese: ハーモニカ (hāmonika)
- → Sakizaya: hamunika
→ Korean: 하모니카 (hamonika)

Translations

wind instrument

Afrikaans: mondfluitjie sg, bekfluitjie sg, mondharmonika sg
Arabic: هارمونيكا f (harmunika)
Bulgarian: устна хармоника f (ustna harmonika)
Catalan: harmònica (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 口琴 (hau² kam⁴)

Mandarin: 口琴 (zh) (kǒuqín)
Czech: harmonika (cs) f
Danish: mundharmonika c, mundharpe c
Dutch: mondharmonica (nl) f
Esperanto: buŝharmoniko
Estonian: suupill
Faroese: munnharpa f
Finnish: huuliharppu (fi)
French: harmonica (fr) m
German: Mundharmonika (de) f
Greek: φυσαρμόνικα (el) f (fysarmónika)
Hebrew: מַפּוּחִית פֶּה (mapukhit pe)
Hungarian: szájharmonika (hu)
Icelandic: munnharpa (is) f
Ilocano: silindro
Indonesian: harmonika (id)
Irish: armónach m
Italian: armonica (it) f
Japanese: ハーモニカ (ja) (hāmonika), 口風琴 (ja) (くちふうきん, kuchifūkin)
Korean: 하모니카 (ko) (hamonika), 구풍금(口風琴) (gupunggeum)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: harmonîka
Lithuanian: lūpinė armonikėlė f
Macedonian: у́сна хармо́ника f (úsna harmónika)
Maltese: armonika f
Maori: hāmonika, pūtangitangi
Marathi: हार्मोनिका m (hārmonikā)
Mongolian: аман хуур (aman xuur)
Norwegian: munnspill, munnharmonika
Persian: سازدهنی (fa) (sâzdahani)
Polish: harmonijka (pl)
Portuguese: gaita (pt), harmónica (pt) f (Portugal), gaita de beiços f (Portugal)
Romanian: muzicuță (ro) f
Russian: губна́я гармо́ника f (gubnája garmónika), губна́я гармо́шка f (gubnája garmóška) (colloquial)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: усна хармоника f

Roman: usna harmonika f
Sicilian: sunettu a bucca m
Spanish: armónica (es) f, harmónica (es) f, rondín (es) m (Ecuador, Peru)
Swahili: kinanda cha mdomo, kinanda cha mkono
Swedish: munspel (sv) n
Tagalog: silindro, armonika
Turkish: mızıka (tr), armonika (tr)
Vietnamese: khẩu cầm (口琴)
Volapük: harmonöm (vo)
Walloon: muzike a boke f, muzike a boutche f
Welsh: crwth genau m

musical instrument, consisting of a series of glasses

German: Glasharmonika (de) f

toy instrument

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Translations to be checked

Slovene: orglice (sl) f
Swedish: munspel (sv) n

References

^ “harmonica”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Anagrams

charmonia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English harmonica (“musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses”), coined by Benjamin Franklin as armonica based on Italian armonica, from Latin harmonica, feminine of harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌɦɑrˈmoː.ni.kaː/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: har‧mo‧ni‧ca

Noun

harmonica f (plural harmonica's)

harmonica, mouth harp (portable wind instrument)
Synonym: mondharmonica
harmonica, glass harmonica (musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses)
Synonym: glasharmonica