French horn

English

Etymology

French + horn.

Noun

French horn (plural French horns)

1. A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.

Derived terms

• French hornist

Translations

musical instrument

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

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

• Corsican: cornu 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