English[edit]
Double bass with bow
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
double bass (plural double basses)
- The largest stringed instrument of the violin family.
- Synonyms: contrabass, upright bass, string bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, bass viol, stand-up bass, bull fiddle
- The deepest of all male voices.
Voice of a double bass, or simply, a double bass.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
largest instrument of violin family
- Afrikaans: kontrabas
- Arabic: كَمَان أَجْهَر m (kamān ʔajhar), كونترباص
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: contrabaxu (ast)
- Belarusian: кантрабас m (kantrabas), басэтля f (basetlja)
- Bulgarian: контрабас (kontrabas)
- Catalan: contrabaix (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 低音提琴 (zh) (dīyīn tíqín)
- Czech: kontrabas (cs) m
- Danish: kontrabas (da) c
- Dutch: contrabas (nl) m or f
- Finnish: kontrabasso (fi), bassoviulu, akustinen basso (fi)
- French: contrebasse (fr) f
- Friulian: cuintribàs m
- German: Kontrabass (de) m
- Hungarian: nagybőgő (hu), gordon (hu), kontrabasszus (hu)
- Indonesian: bas betot, kontrabas (id)
- Irish: olldord m
- Italian: contrabbasso (it) m
- Japanese: コントラバス (ja) (kontorabasu), コンバス (konbasu)
- Korean: 콘트라베이스 (konteurabeiseu)
- Macedonian: ко́нтрабас m (kóntrabas)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kontrabass m
- Nynorsk: kontrabass m
- Polish: kontrabas (pl) m
- Portuguese: contrabaixo (pt) m
- Romanian: contrabas (ro) n
- Russian: контраба́с (ru) m (kontrabás)
- Scottish Gaelic: beus m, beus-fhìdheall f, beus dùbailte
- Slovene: kontrabas (sl) m
- Spanish: contrabajo (es) m
- Swedish: kontrabas (sv) c, basfiol (sv) c
- Thai: ดับเบิลเบส (dàp-bə̂n-bèet)
- Turkish: kontrbas (tr)
- Ukrainian: контраба́с (uk) (kontrabás)
- Welsh: bas dwbl m, basgrwth m
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Further reading[edit]
double bass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 