cymbal

English

Etymology

Wikipedia

Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kymbalon), from κύμβη (kymbē, “bowl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪmbəl/ (Common Usage), IPA: /sɪmbəɫ/
• IPA: /ˈkɪmbəl/ (Etymological)

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• Rhymes: -ɪmbəl
• Homophone: symbol

Noun

A cymbal on a stand.

cymbal (plural cymbals)

1. (music) a concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.

Derived terms

• cymbalist

Translations

a concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck

• Armenian: ծնծղա (hy) (çnçġa) 
• Bulgarian: чинел (bg) (činel) m 
• Catalan: platerets (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐃鈸 (cmn), 铙钹 (cmn) (náo bó)

• Dutch: klankbekken (nl) n
• Finnish: lautaset (fi) pl
• French: cymbales (fr) m pl
• German: Becken (de) n
• Greek: κύμβαλο (el) (kímvalo) n 
• Hungarian: cintányér (hu)
• Irish: ciombal (ga) m
• Italian: cembalo (it)

• Japanese: シンバル (ja) (shimbaru)
• Korean: 제금 (ko) (jegeum), 바라 (ko) (bara)
• Latvian: šķīvji (lv) m pl
• Polish: talerz (pl) m
• Portuguese: prato (pt) m
• Russian: тарелки (ru) (tarélki) f pl 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цимбал (sh) m, цимбало (sh), тас (sh) n

  Roman: cimbal (sh) m, cimbalo (sh), tas (sh) n

• Slovene: činela (sl) f
• Spanish: címbalo (es)
• Swedish: bäcken (sv) n, cymbal (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chĩm chọe (vi)

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Swedish

Noun

cymbal c

1. cymbal
2. dulcimer

Declension

Declension of cymbal

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cymbal	cymbalen	cymbaler	cymbalerna
genitive	cymbals	cymbalens	cymbalers	cymbalernas