dulcimer
English
Etymology
From Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdʌl.sɪ.mɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdʌl.sɪ.mə/
- Hyphenation: dul‧ci‧mer
Noun
dulcimer (plural dulcimers)
- (music) A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal. It is played on the lap or horizontally on a table. Some have their own legs. These musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
- The two classes of dulcimer are the "Mountain" or "Appalachian" dulcimer (plucked and played with a quill, usually a goose quill) and the hammered dulcimer (played by tapping on the strings with small "hammers"). See also: zither
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Courier Dover Publications, published 1992, →ISBN, page 59:
- A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.
- 1947 January 25, “Album Reviews: The Seven Joys of Mary—John: Jacob Niles (Disc 732)”, in The Billboard, volume 59, number 4, Nielsen Business Media, ISSN 0006-2510, page 32:
- Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old.
Derived terms
Translations
musical instrument
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See also
- Appendix:Glossary of chordophones
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdulsimer/, [ˈduls̠ime̞r]
- Hyphenation: dul‧ci‧mer
Declension
Inflection of dulcimer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | dulcimer | dulcimerit | |
genitive | dulcimerin | dulcimerien dulcimereiden dulcimereitten | |
partitive | dulcimeria | dulcimereita dulcimereja | |
illative | dulcimeriin | dulcimereihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | dulcimer | dulcimerit | |
accusative | nom. | dulcimer | dulcimerit |
gen. | dulcimerin | ||
genitive | dulcimerin | dulcimerien dulcimereiden dulcimereitten | |
partitive | dulcimeria | dulcimereita dulcimereja | |
inessive | dulcimerissa | dulcimereissa | |
elative | dulcimerista | dulcimereista | |
illative | dulcimeriin | dulcimereihin | |
adessive | dulcimerilla | dulcimereilla | |
ablative | dulcimerilta | dulcimereilta | |
allative | dulcimerille | dulcimereille | |
essive | dulcimerina | dulcimereina | |
translative | dulcimeriksi | dulcimereiksi | |
instructive | — | dulcimerein | |
abessive | dulcimeritta | dulcimereitta | |
comitative | — | dulcimereineen |
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