Violin

English

Noun

Violin (plural Violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers.
2. (music) A violinist

Adjectives for Violin

alto; beautiful; masterful; priceless.

Thesaurus

fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, scroll, soundboard, string, tenor violin, tuning peg, viola, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, cello, contrabass, crowd, double bass.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/, SAMPA: /vaI@lIn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Synonyms

• fiddle

Related terms

• first violin
• second violin
• viol
• viola
• violinist
• violoncello

See also

• second fiddle

Translations

string instrument

Armenian: ջութակ (hy) (ǰut'ak) Azeri: skripka (az) Basque: biolin (eu) Breton: violoñs (br) m. Catalan: violí (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 小提琴 (cmn) (xiǎotíqín) Croatian: violina (hr) f. Czech: housle (cs) f. pl. Danish: violin (da) c. Dutch: viool (nl) Esperanto: violono (eo) Estonian: viiul (et) Finnish: viulu (fi) French: violon (fr) m. German: Geige (de) f., Violine (de) f. Greek: βιολί (el) (biolí) n. Greenlandic: agiaq (kl) Hebrew: כינור (he) (Kinor) m. Hungarian: hegedű (hu) Icelandic: fiðla (is) f.

Irish: veidhlín (ga) m. Italian: violino (it) m. Japanese: バイオリン (ja) (baiorin) Korean: 바이올린 (ko) (baiollin) Kurdish: keman (ku) f., kemançe (ku) f., viyolîn (ku) f. Latin: (Modern Latin) violinum (la) Latvian: vijole (lv) Lithuanian: smuikas (lt) Macedonian: виолина (mk) (violína) f. Norwegian: fiolin (no) m. Polish: skrzypce (pl) pl. Portuguese: violino (pt) Romanian: vioară (ro) f. Russian: скрипка (ru) (skrípka) f. Scottish Gaelic: fidheall (gd) f. Slovene: violina (sl) f. Spanish: violín (es) m. Swahili: fidla (sw) Swedish: fiol (sv), violin (sv) Turkish: keman (tr) West Frisian: fioele (fy)

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola
• first violinist
• second violinist

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Danish

Noun

Violin c. (singular definite Violinen, plural indefinite Violiner)

1. violin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /violiːn/, [vioˈliːˀn]

Inflection

    Inflection of Violin

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	Violin	Violinen	Violiner	Violinerne
genitive	Violins	Violinens	Violiners	Violinernes