oboe

See also: Oboe and oboé

English

Etymology

An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈoʊboʊ/
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Noun

oboe (plural oboes)

A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

Derived terms

baroque oboe
bass oboe
contrabass oboe
oboe da caccia, oboe di caccia
oboe d’amore
oboist
piccolo oboe

Translations

wind instrument

Afrikaans: hobo
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: أوبوا‎
Armenian: հոբոյ (hy) (hoboy)
Basque: oboe
Belarusian: габо́й m (habój)
Breton: oboell
Bulgarian: обой m (oboj)
Catalan: oboè (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 雙簧管 (sēung wòhng gún)

Mandarin: 雙簧管 (zh), 双簧管 (zh) (shuānghuángguǎn)

Wu: 雙簧管 (saon waon kuoe)
Czech: hoboj (cs)
Danish: obo c
Dutch: hobo (nl) m
Esperanto: hobojo
Estonian: oboe (et)
Faroese: obo f
Finnish: oboe (fi)
French: hautbois (fr) m
Galician: óboe (gl) m
Georgian: ჰობოი (ka) (hoboi)
German: Oboe (de) f
Gilbertese: oboe
Greek: όμποε (el) m (ómpoe), οξύαυλος (el) m (oxýavlos)
Hawaiian: puhi ʻohe ʻopo
Hebrew: אבוב‎ (he) (oboe)
Hungarian: oboa (hu)
Icelandic: óbó (is) n
Ido: hoboyo (io)
Indonesian: obo (id)
Interlingua: oboe
Interlingue: hobóe
Irish: óbó m
Italian: oboe (it) m

Japanese: オーボエ (ja) (ōboe)
Korean: 오보에 (ko) (obo-e)
Latvian: oboja f
Lithuanian: obojus m
Luxembourgish: hautbois m
Macedonian: обоа f (oboa)
Manx: obo m
Maori: rehu matangi, pūtōiri
Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠮᠪᠦᠬᠦᠷ (ǰimbükür), жимбүүр (mn) (žimbüür)
Ngazidja Comorian: ndzumari
Norwegian:
Bokmål: obo m

Nynorsk: obo m
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: clarin m, autbòi m
Persian: ابوا‎ (fa), قرهنی‎
Polish: obój (pl) m
Portuguese: oboé (pt) m
Romanian: oboi (ro) m
Russian: гобо́й (ru) m (gobój)
Scottish Gaelic: òboidh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: обоа f

Roman: oboa (sh) f
Slovak: hoboj (sk) m
Slovene: oboa (sl) f
Spanish: oboe (es) m
Swahili: nzumari ndogo
Swedish: oboe (sv) c
Tagalog: obowe
Turkish: obua (tr)
Ukrainian: гобо́й m (hobój)
Uyghur: گوبوي‎ (goboy)
Vietnamese: kèn ôboa
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: obo m

Anagrams

Booe, OEOB, OOBE

Finnish

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -oe

Noun

oboe

(music) oboe

Declension

Inflection of oboe (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
nominative		oboe	oboet
genitive		oboen	oboeiden oboeitten
partitive		oboeta	oboeita
illative		oboeen	oboeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		oboe	oboet
accusative	nom.	oboe	oboet
accusative	gen.	oboen	oboet
genitive		oboen	oboeiden oboeitten
partitive		oboeta	oboeita
inessive		oboessa	oboeissa
elative		oboesta	oboeista
illative		oboeen	oboeihin
adessive		oboella	oboeilla
ablative		oboelta	oboeilta
allative		oboelle	oboeille
essive		oboena	oboeina
translative		oboeksi	oboeiksi
instructive		—	oboein
abessive		oboetta	oboeitta
comitative		—	oboeineen

Italian

Etymology

From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.

Noun

oboe m (plural oboi)

(music) oboe

Spanish

Noun

oboe m (plural oboes)

(music) oboe

Swedish

Noun

oboe c

(music) an oboe

Declension

Declension of oboe
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	oboe	oboen	oboer	oboerna
Genitive	oboes	oboens	oboers	oboernas

Related terms

oboist

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