bassoon

English

Wikipedia

two bassoons

Etymology

Borrowing from French basson, from Italian bassone, from basso (“bass”) + augmentative suffix -one.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /bəˈsuːn/, X-SAMPA: /b@"su:n/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

bassoon (plural bassoons)

1. A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and, playing in the tenor and bass ranges.

Derived terms

• bassoonist
• contrabassoon

Translations

musical instrument in the woodwind family

• Albanian: fagot (sq) m
• Armenian: ֆագոտ (hy) (fagot)
• Azeri: faqot (az)
• Bulgarian: фагот (bg) (fagot) m
• Catalan: fagot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 低音管 (cmn) (dīyīnguǎn), 巴松管 (cmn) (bāsōngguǎn), 大管 (cmn) (dàguǎn)

• Czech: fagot (cs) m
• Danish: fagot (da) c
• Dutch: fagot (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: fagott (et)
• Faroese: fagott (fo) f
• Finnish: fagotti (fi)
• French: basson (fr) m
• Georgian: ფაგოტი (ka) (fagot’i)
• German: Fagott (de) n
• Hungarian: fagott (hu)
• Icelandic: fagott (is) n
• Ido: basono (io)
• Irish: basún (ga) m
• Italian: fagotto (it) m
• Japanese: ファゴット (ja) (fagotto), バスーン (ja) (basūn)
• Korean: 바순 (ko) (basun)

• Latvian: fagots (lv) m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: фагот (mk) (fágot) m
• Norwegian: fagott (no) m
• Polish: fagot (pl) m
• Portuguese: fagote (pt) m
• Romanian: fagot (ro) n
• Russian: фагот (ru) (fagót) m
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фа̀гот (sh) m

  Roman: fàgot (sh) m

• Slovak: fagot (sk) m
• Slovene: fagót (sl) m
• Spanish: bajón (es) m, fagot (es) m
• Swahili: basuni (sw)
• Swedish: fagott (sv) c
• Tagalog: bahon (tl)
• Thai: บาสซูน (th)
• Turkish: fagot (tr)
• Ukrainian: фагот (uk) (fahót) m
• Vietnamese: kèn fagôt (vi)
• Volapük: basun (vo), (older term) fagöm (vo)
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: באַסון (yi) (bʼaswn) m

Verb

bassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)

1. To play the bassoon.
2. To make a bassoon-like sound.