woodwind instrument

English

Noun

woodwind instrument (plural woodwind instruments)

1. (music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column.

   Synonym: woodwind

   Hypernym: wind instrument

   Coordinate term: brass instrument

Hyponyms

• bagpipe
• bassoon
• clarinet
• concertina
• English horn
• flute
• oboe
• piccolo
• saxophone
• shakuhachi

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: آلَة نَفْخ خَشَبِيَّة f (ʔāla(t) nafḵ ḵašabiyya)
• Catalan: instrument de fusta
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: phín-siau

  Mandarin: 木管樂器／木管乐器 (zh) (mùguǎn yuèqì)

• Czech: dřevěný nástroj m, dřevěný dechový nástroj m
• Danish: træblæser
• Dutch: houtblaasinstrument (nl) n
• Esperanto: ligna blovinstrumento
• Estonian: puupuhkpill
• Finnish: puupuhallin (fi)
• French: bois (fr) m
• German: Holzblasinstrument (de) n
• Greek: όργανο καλάμων (órgano kalámon)
• Hebrew: כלי נשיפה מעץ
• Icelandic: tréblásturshljóðfæri n
• Indonesian: instrumen woodwind
• Italian: legni (it) m pl
• Japanese: 木管楽器 (ja) (もっかんがっき, mokkangakki)
• Korean: 목관 악기 (mokgwan akgi)
• Latin: instrumentum ligni et venti n
• Macedonian: дрвен дувачки инструме́нт m (drven duvački instrumént)
• Maori: taonga pūhau
• Norwegian: treblåseinstrument
• Polish: instrument dęty drewniany m
• Quechua: qiru phukuna waqachina
• Russian: деревя́нный духово́й инструме́нт m (derevjánnyj duxovój instrumént)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дрвени дувачки инструмент m

  Roman: drveni duvački instrument m

• Slovak: drevený dychový nástroj m
• Slovene: pihalni instrument m
• Spanish: instrumento de viento-madera
• Swedish: träblåsinstrument (sv) n
• Turkish: tahta nefesli çalgı (tr)