symphony

English

Etymology

From Middle English symphonye, from Old French simphonie, from Latin symphonia, from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). By surface analysis, sym- +‎ -phony. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and zampogna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.fə.ni/, [ˈsɪɱ.fə.ni]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

symphony (countable and uncountable, plural symphonies)

1. An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.
2. (music) An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.
3. Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.
4. (US, informal) A symphony orchestra.

Derived terms

• city symphony
• pocket symphony
• symphonist

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဆင်ဖိုနီ (hcanghpuini)
• → Japanese: シンフォニー (shinfonī)
• → Khmer: ស៊ីមហ្វូនី (siimfounii)
• → Malay: simfoni
• → Punjabi: ਸਿੰਫਨੀ (simphani)
• → Thai: ซิมโฟนี (sim-foo-nîi)
• → Welsh: symffoni

Translations

piece of orchestral music

• Albanian: simfoni (sq) f
• Arabic: سِيمْفُونِيَّة f (sīmfūniyya), سِيمْفُونِي m (sīmfūnī)
• Armenian: սիմֆոնիա (hy) (simfonia), համանուագ (hamanuag) (Western Armenian)
• Azerbaijani: simfoniya
• Belarusian: сімфо́нія f (simfónija)
• Bengali: সিম্ফনি (bn) (śimphoni)
• Bulgarian: симфо́ния (bg) f (simfónija)
• Burmese: ဆင်ဖိုနီ (hcanghpuini)
• Catalan: simfonia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (gaau¹ hoeng² kuk¹)

  Hokkien: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (zh-min-nan) (kau-hiáng-khek)

  Mandarin: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (zh) (jiāoxiǎngqǔ)

• Czech: symfonie (cs) f
• Danish: symfoni c
• Dutch: symfonie (nl) f
• Esperanto: simfonio
• Estonian: sümfoonia
• Farefare: simfonia
• Finnish: sinfonia (fi)
• French: symphonie (fr) f
• Friulian: sinfonie f
• Georgian: სიმფონია (simponia)
• German: Sinfonie (de) f, Symphonie (de) f
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía)
• Hebrew: סִימפוֹנִיָה (he) f (simfónya)
• Hindi: सिंफ़नी f (sĩfanī), सिम्फ़नी f (simfanī), स्वर की समता m (svar kī samtā)
• Hungarian: szimfónia (hu)
• Icelandic: sinfónía f
• Irish: siansa m
• Italian: sinfonia (it) f
• Japanese: 交響曲 (ja) (こうきょうきょく, kōkyōkyoku)
• Kazakh: симфония (simfoniä)
• Khmer: ស៊ីមហ្វូនី (siimfounii)
• Korean: 교향곡(交響曲) (ko) (gyohyanggok), 심포니 (ko) (simponi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: senfonî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: симфония (ky) (simfoniya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: simfonija f, simfōnija f (obsolete spelling)
• Lithuanian: simfonija f
• Macedonian: симфонија f (simfonija)
• Malay: simfoni
• Maori: puoro tuatini
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: симфони (mn) (simfoni)

  Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠮᠹᠣᠨᠢ (simfoni)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: symfoni m

  Nynorsk: symfoni m

• Pashto: سمفوني f (samfoni), سيمفوني f (simfoni)
• Persian: سمفونی (fa) (samfoni)
• Piedmontese: sinfonìa f
• Polish: symfonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sinfonia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਿੰਫਨੀ (simphnī)
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: simfonie (ro) f
• Russian: симфо́ния (ru) f (simfónija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѝмфо̄нија f

  Roman: sìmfōnija (sh) f

• Slovak: symfónia f
• Slovene: simfonija f
• Spanish: sinfonía (es) f
• Swedish: symfoni (sv) c
• Tajik: симфония (simfoniya)
• Tatar: симфония (simfoniyä)
• Thai: ซิมโฟนี (sim-foo-nîi)
• Turkish: senfoni (tr)
• Turkmen: simfoniýa
• Ukrainian: симфо́нія (uk) f (symfónija)
• Urdu: ہَم نَوائی (ham-navāī), سِمْفَنی f (simfanī)
• Uyghur: سىمفونىيە (simfoniye)
• Uzbek: simfoniya (uz)
• Vietnamese: giao hưởng (vi) (交響)
• Volapük: sümfon, kobolestukot, (children) cilasümfon
• Welsh: symffoni f
• Yiddish: סימפֿאָניע f (simfonye)

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