violin

See also: Violin and violín

English

A violin

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/, [ˌvaɪ̯ɪ̈ˈlɪn]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌvɑeˈlɘn/, /ˌvɑe.ɘˈlɘn/

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

violin (plural violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.

   Synonym: fiddle

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

Derived terms

• bass violin
• electric violin
• first violin
• kit violin
• nail violin
• second violin
• violinist

 

Related terms

• viol
• viola
• violoncello

Descendants

• → Japanese: バイオリン (baiorin)
• → Korean: 바이올린 (baiollin)

Translations

string instrument

• Afrikaans: viool
• Albanian: violina f
• Amharic: ቫዮሊን (vayolin)
• Arabic: كَمَان‎ (ar) m (kamān)

  Moroccan Arabic: كمنجة‎ f (kamanja)

• Armenian: ջութակ (hy) (ǰutʿak)
• Assamese: বেহেলা (behela)
• Asturian: violín m
• Azerbaijani: skripka (az)
• Basque: biolin
• Belarusian: скры́пка f (skrýpka)
• Bengali: বেহালা (behala)
• Breton: violoñs m
• Bulgarian: цигу́лка (bg) f (cigúlka)
• Burmese: တယော (my) (ta.yau:)
• Catalan: violí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 小提琴 (siu² tai⁴ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 小提琴 (zh) (xiǎotíqín), 梵啞鈴 (zh), 梵哑铃 (zh) (fànyǎlíng)

• Crimean Tatar: kemane
• Czech: housle (cs) f pl
• Danish: violin (da) c
• Dutch: viool (nl), vedel (nl) f
• Esperanto: violono
• Estonian: viiul (et)
• Faroese: violin f, fiól f
• Finnish: viulu (fi)
• French: violon (fr) m
• Fula:

• Adlam: 𞤽𞤢𞥄𞤽𞤮𞥅𞤪𞤵‎
• Latin: ñaañooru

• Galician: violín (gl) m
• Georgian: ვიოლინო (violino)
• German: Geige (de) f (normal), Violine (de) f (technical, solemn), Fiedel (de) f (informal)

  Alemannic German: Guege f

• Greek: βιολί (el) n (violí)
• Greenlandic: agiaq
• Hawaiian: pila
• Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר / כינור‎ (he) m (kinór)
• Hindi: वायलिन (vāylin), बेला (hi) (belā), सारंगी (hi) (sāraṅgī)
• Hungarian: hegedű (hu)
• Icelandic: fiðla (is) f
• Ido: violino (io)
• Indonesian: biola (id)
• Irish: veidhlín m, veidheal f
• Italian: violino (it) m
• Japanese: バイオリン (ja) (baiorin), 小提琴 (ja) (Koteikin), 提琴 (teikin)
• Kabuverdianu: rabéka
• Kalmyk: хур (xur)
• Kazakh: скрипка (skrïpka)
• Khmer: វីយោឡុង (viiyoulong)
• Korean: 바이올린 (ko) (baiollin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: keman (ku) f, kemançe (ku) f, viyolîn (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: скрипка (ky) (sqripqa)
• Lao: ຊຶງ (sưng), ຊຸງ (sung)
• Latin: (Modern Latin) violinum

• Latvian: vijole, smuika f (outdated)
• Lithuanian: smuikas
• Low German:

  German Low German: Vigelien f, Fiedel f (popular), Fiddel f (popular)

• Macedonian: виоли́на f (violína)
• Malay: biola (ms)
• Maltese: vjolin m
• Marathi: वायोलिन f (vāyolin)
• Mongolian: хийл хөгжим (khiil khögjim), ᠡᠷᠡᠦ
  ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (ereü quɣur)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiolin (no) m

  Nynorsk: fiolin m

• Occitan: violon (oc) m
• Persian: ویولن‎ (fa) (viyolon)
• Polish: skrzypce (pl) pl
• Portuguese: violino (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਵਾਇਲਿਨ (pa) f (vāilin)
• Quechua: wiyulin
• Romanian: vioară (ro) f
• Romansch: gìa f, violina f
• Russian: скри́пка (ru) f (skrípka)
• Samoan: vaiolini
• Scottish Gaelic: fidheall f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виолина f

  Roman: violina (sh) f

• Slovak: husle f pl
• Slovene: violina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wiolina f

• Spanish: violín (es) m
• Swahili: fidla
• Swedish: fiol (sv) c, violin (sv) c
• Tagalog: biyolin
• Tajik: скрипка (skripka), ғиҷҷак (ġijjak), камонча (kamonča)
• Tamil: வயலின் (ta) (vayaliṉ)
• Tatar: скрипка (skripka)
• Telugu: వాయులీనము (te) (vāyulīnamu)
• Thai: ไวโอลิน (th) (wai-oo-lin)
• Turkish: keman (tr)
• Turkmen: skripka
• Ukrainian: скри́пка (uk) f (skrýpka)
• Urdu: سارنگی‎ m (sarangi)
• Uyghur: ئىسكىرىپكا‎ (iskiripka)
• Uzbek: skripka (uz)
• Vietnamese: vĩ cầm
• Volapük: viäl (vo)
• Walloon: violon (wa) m
• Waray-Waray: biyolin
• Welsh: feiolin f
• West Frisian: fioele
• Yiddish: פֿידל‎ m (fidl)
• Zhuang: siuj dizginz
• Zulu: ivayolini

Verb

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola

Anagrams

• olivin

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Catalan

Verb

violin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /violiːn/, [vioˈliːˀn]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

Declension

Declension of violin

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	violin	violinen	violiner	violinerne
genitive	violins	violinens	violiners	violinernes

References

• “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “violin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjuˈliŋ/

Noun

violin m (plural violin)

1. violin