piano

See also: Piano, pianó, piáno, and píanó

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Short form of pianoforte, from Italian piano (“soft”) + forte (“strong”). So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord and the clavichord.

PronunciationEdit

Noun and Adjective

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /piˈænoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /piˈænəʊ/

Adverb

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /piˈɑnoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /piˈɑːnəʊ/

NounEdit

piano (plural pianos or piani)

An upright piano

A grand piano

1. (music) A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.

   The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.

   She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.

   He can play "Happy Birthday" on the piano.

   Most of the works by Frédéric Chopin are for the piano.

SynonymsEdit

• pianoforte (dated)

Coordinate termsEdit

• (keyboard instrument): cembalo, clavichord, fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, synthesizer, synth

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from the noun piano

• barrel piano
• dumb piano
• electric piano
• finger piano
• grand piano
• pianola
• pianist
• piano accordion

• piano player
• pianoist
• piano wire
• player piano
• square piano
• thumb piano
• upright piano

TranslationsEdit

a keyboard musical instrument

• Albanian: piano (sq) f
• Arabic: بِيَانُو‏‎ m (biyānō), مِعْزَف‏‎ m (miʿzaf)
• Armenian: դաշնամուր (hy) (dašnamur)
• Asturian: pianu m
• Azeri: piano (az), fortepiano, pianino, royal (az)
• Belarusian: фартэпія́на n (fartepijána)
• Bengali: পিয়ানো (piyano)
• Bulgarian: пиа́но n (piáno)
• Burmese: စန္ဒရား (my) (canda.ra:)
• Catalan: piano (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏔᏅ ᏗᎧᏃᎩᏍᏗ (utanv dikanogisdi), ᏗᏂᏤᎷᎯᏍᎩ (dinitseluhisgi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鋼琴 (gong³ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 鋼琴 (zh), 钢琴 (zh) (gāngqín)

  Min Nan: 鋼琴 (zh-min-nan) (kǹg-khîm)

• Cornish: piano m
• Czech: klavír (cs) m, piáno n, břinkotruhla f
• Danish: klaver (da) n
• Dutch: piano (nl) m
• Esperanto: piano (eo)
• Estonian: klaver
• Finnish: piano (fi); flyygeli (fi) (grand piano)
• French: piano (fr) m
• Galician: piano (gl) m
• Georgian: ფორტეპიანო (ka) (porṭeṗiano), პიანინო (ka) (ṗianino)
• German: Klavier (de) n (common); Piano (de) n (exalted style); Flügel (de) m (grand piano)
• Greek: πιάνο (el) n (piáno), κλειδοκύμβαλο (el) n (kleidokýmvalo)
• Greenlandic: klaveri
• Guaraní: kuãytasã (mahāvādya)
• Hebrew: פְּסַנְתֵּר‏‎ (he) m (psantér)
• Hindi: पियानो (hi) m (piyāno), महावाद्य (mahāvādya)
• Hungarian: zongora (hu)
• Icelandic: píanó (is) n, slagharpa (is) f, fortepíanó n
• Irish: pianó m
• Italian: pianoforte (it) m, piano (it) m
• Japanese: ピアノ (ja) (piano)
• Kazakh: фортепиано (fortepïano), күйсандық (küysandıq)
• Khmer: ព្យាណូ (pyienoo)
• Komi-Zyrian: зонгорӧ (zongorö)
• Korean: 피아노 (ko) (piano)
• Kyrgyz: пианино (pianino)
• Lao: ປີອາໂນ (pī 'ā nō)
• Latin: clavile n
• Latvian: klavieres f pl

• Lithuanian: pianinas (lt)
• Lojban: pipno
• Macedonian: пија́но n (pijáno), клави́р m (klavír)
• Malay: piano
• Maori: piana
• Marathi: पियानो m (piyāno)
• Mongolian: төгөлдөр хуур (tögöldör huur), ᠲᠡᠭᠦᠯᠳᠡᠷ
  ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (tegülder quɣur)
• Nahuatl: pianotli (nah)
• Navajo: biwooʼ hólóní, dilní náníltąshígíí
• Norman: piano m
• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) klawiar n
• Norwegian: piano (no) n
• Persian: پیانو‏‎ (fa) (piyâno)
• Polish: pianino (pl) n, fortepian (pl) m
• Portuguese: piano (pt) m
• Quechua: yatana qallwa
• Romanian: pian (ro) n
• Russian: пиани́но (ru) n (pianíno), фортепиа́но (ru) n (fortɛpiáno), роя́ль (ru) m (rojálʹ) (grand piano)
• Scottish Gaelic: piàna m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клавир m

  Roman: klavir (sh) m

• Slovak: klavír m
• Slovene: klavir (sl) m
• Spanish: piano (es) m
• Swahili: kinanda (sw), piano (sw)
• Swedish: piano (sv) n
• Tagalog: piyano
• Tajik: пианино (pianino)
• Tamil: பியானோ (piyāṉō), கின்னரப்பெட்டி (kiṉṉarappeṭṭi)
• Thai: เปียโน (th) (bpiia-noo)
• Turkish: piyano (tr)
• Turkmen: pianino, roýal
• Ukrainian: фортепіа́но (uk) n (fortepiáno)
• Urdu: پیانو‏‎ m (piyāno)
• Uyghur: پيانىنو‏‎ (pyanino)
• Uzbek: pianino (uz)
• Vietnamese: dương cầm (vi)
• Volapük: pianod (vo)
• Welsh: piano m, perdoneg m, f
• Yiddish: פּיאַנע‏‎ f (pyane), קלאַוויר‏‎ m (klavir)
• Zhuang: ganghginz
• Zulu: iPiyano (zu)

AdjectiveEdit

piano (comparative more piano, superlative most piano)

1. (music) Soft, quiet.
2. In extended use; quiet, subdued.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, page 160:

     ‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.

AdverbEdit

Piano notation.

piano (not comparable)

1. (music) Softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music). [from 17th c.]

Related termsEdit

• mezzo piano
• mp
• pianissimo
• pp

TranslationsEdit

music: softly

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: piano (fi), hiljaa (fi)
• German: piano (de)
• Icelandic: veikur (is)

• Italian: piano (it)
• Portuguese: piano (pt)
• Russian: пиа́но (ru) (piáno)
• Slovak: piano
• Spanish: piano (es)

AnagramsEdit

• NAIOP

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AlbanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /piˈanɔ/

NounEdit

piano f (indefinite plural piano, definite singular pianoja, definite plural pianot)

1. piano

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AzeriEdit

Other scripts
Cyrillic	пиано
Roman	piano
Perso-Arabic

EtymologyEdit

From Italian piano.

NounEdit

piano (definite accusative pianonu, plural pianolar)

1. piano

DeclensionEdit

Declension of piano

	singular	plural
nominative	piano	pianolar
definite accusative	pianonu	pianoları
dative	pianoya	pianolara
locative	pianoda	pianolarda
ablative	pianodan	pianolardan
definite genitive	pianonun	pianoların

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CatalanEdit

NounEdit

piano m (plural pianos)

1. (music) piano

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /piˈaːnoː/

• audio

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NounEdit

piano c (plural piano's, diminutive pianootje n)

1. piano

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EsperantoEdit

NounEdit

piano (accusative singular pianon, plural pianoj, accusative plural pianojn)

1. piano

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

piano

1. piano

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of piano (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		piano	pianot
genitive		pianon	pianojen
partitive		pianoa	pianoja
illative		pianoon	pianoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		piano	pianot
accusative	nom.	piano	pianot
	gen.	pianon
genitive		pianon	pianojen
partitive		pianoa	pianoja
inessive		pianossa	pianoissa
elative		pianosta	pianoista
illative		pianoon	pianoihin
adessive		pianolla	pianoilla
ablative		pianolta	pianoilta
allative		pianolle	pianoille
essive		pianona	pianoina
translative		pianoksi	pianoiksi
instructive		—	pianoin
abessive		pianotta	pianoitta
comitative		—	pianoineen

Derived termsEdit

• konserttipiano
• pianisti
• pianomusiikki
• pianotuoli

AnagramsEdit

• apoin, paino, paoin, pinoa, ponia

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• audio

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• IPA^(key): /pja.no/

NounEdit

piano m (plural pianos)

1. piano

Further readingEdit

• “piano” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-.

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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AdjectiveEdit

piano (feminine singular piana, masculine plural piani, feminine plural piane)

1. plane
2. flat, level
3. plain
4. soft
5. penultimate accented

AntonymsEdit

• forte

See alsoEdit

• levigato
• liscio
• piatto

NounEdit

piano m (plural piani)

1. plane
2. floor, storey (British), story (US) (of a building)
3. plan, tactic, stratagem, scheme, plot
4. piano (musical instrument)

SynonymsEdit

• progetto
• proposito

AdverbEdit

piano

1. slowly
2. carefully

Related termsEdit

• piana
• pianificazione
• pianista
• pianola
• piano piano / pian piano

AnagramsEdit

• opina

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JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

piano

1. Rōmaji transcription of ピアノ

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English piano and French piano.

NounEdit

piano m (plural pianos)

1. (Jersey, music) piano

Derived termsEdit

• pianiste (“pianist”)

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano or pianoer, definite plural pianoa or pianoene)

1. a piano

Related termsEdit

• flygel
• klaver

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

piano n (definite singular pianoet, indefinite plural piano, definite plural pianoa)

1. a piano

Related termsEdit

• flygel
• klaver

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PortugueseEdit

piano

EtymologyEdit

From Italian piano, short form of pianoforte.

PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpjɐnu/
• Hyphenation: pi‧a‧no

AdjectiveEdit

piano

1. piano

AdverbEdit

piano (comparative mais piano superlative o mais piano)

1. (music) piano, soft
2. (music) piano, slowly

NounEdit

piano m (plural pianos)

1. piano

Related termsEdit

• pianista

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SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpianɔ/

AdverbEdit

piano

1. musical directive to play softly

NounEdit

piano m (genitive singular piana, nominative plural pianá, genitive plural pián, declension pattern of mesto)

1. (music) piano
2. a very soft sound

DeclensionEdit

Declension of piano

	singular	plural
nominative	piano	pianá
genitive	piana	pián
dative	pianu	pianám
accusative	piano	pianá
locative	piane	pianách
instrumental	pianom	pianami

SynonymsEdit

• (piano): klavír

Further readingEdit

• piano in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpja̯.no/

NounEdit

piano m (plural pianos)

1. piano

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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NounEdit

piano n

1. a piano

DeclensionEdit

Declension of piano
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	piano	pianot	pianon	pianona
Genitive	pianos	pianots	pianons	pianonas

See alsoEdit

• ta det piano

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VepsEdit

EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

piano

1. piano

InflectionEdit

Inflection of piano
nominative sing.	piano
genitive sing.	pianon
partitive sing.	pianod
partitive plur.	pianoid
	singular	plural
nominative	piano	pianod
accusative	pianon	pianod
genitive	pianon	pianoiden
partitive	pianod	pianoid
essive-instructive	pianon	pianoin
translative	pianoks	pianoikš
inessive	pianos	pianoiš
elative	pianospäi	pianoišpäi
illative	?	pianoihe
adessive	pianol	pianoil
ablative	pianolpäi	pianoilpäi
allative	pianole	pianoile
abessive	pianota	pianoita
comitative	pianonke	pianoidenke
prolative	pianodme	pianoidme
approximative I	pianonno	pianoidenno
approximative II	pianonnoks	pianoidennoks
egressive	pianonnopäi	pianoidennopäi
terminative I	?	pianoihesai
terminative II	pianolesai	pianoilesai
terminative III	pianossai	—
additive I	?	pianoihepäi
additive II	pianolepäi	pianoilepäi

ReferencesEdit

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “пианино”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika