harmonica

See also: harmónica, harmònica, and harmônica

English edit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

harmonica

harmonicas (wind instruments)

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

→ Dutch: harmonica
→ German: Harmonika
- → French: harmonica
- →? Plautdietsch: Harmonika
→ Spanish: armónica

Translations edit

wind instrument

Afrikaans: mondfluitjie sg, bekfluitjie sg, mondharmonika sg
Arabic: هارمونيكا‎ f (harmunika)
Bulgarian: устна хармоника f (ustna harmonika)
Catalan: harmònica (ca) f
Chinese:
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)
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)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: harmonîka
Lithuanian: lūpinė armonikėlė f
Macedonian: у́сна хармо́ника f (úsna harmónika)
Maori: hāmonia, 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)
Spanish: armónica (es) f, harmónica (es) f
Swahili: kinanda cha mdomo
Swedish: munspel (sv) n
Tagalog: silindro
Turkish: mızıka (tr)
Vietnamese: khẩu cầm (口琴)
Welsh: crwth genau m

musical instrument, consisting of a series of glasses

German: Glasharmonika (de) f

toy instrument

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

References edit

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

Anagrams edit

charmonia

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

Noun edit

harmonica f (plural harmonica's)

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