fife

See also Fife

English

Etymology

From German Pfeife.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪf

Noun

fife (plural fifes)

Wikipedia

1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

Translations

small shrill pipe

• Bulgarian: пикола (bg) (pikola) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橫笛 (cmn), 横笛 (cmn) (héngdí), 龠 (cmn) (yuè)

• Finnish: fife (fi)
• French: fifre (fr) m
• German: Schwegel (de) f, Pfeife (de) f

• Italian: piffero (it) m
• Japanese: 横笛 (ja) (よこぶえ, yokobue)
• Russian: дудка (ru) (dúdka) f
• Spanish: pífano (es) m
• Welsh: chwibanogl (cy) f, pib feinlais (cy) f, cadbib (cy) f, ffeiff (cy) m

Anagrams

• fief

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɪfe/

Noun

fife

1. (music) fife

Declension

Declension of fife (type valo) singular plural nominative fife fifet genitive fifen fifejen partitive fifeä fifejä accusative fife fifen fifet inessive fifessä fifeissä elative fifestä fifeistä illative fifeen fifeihin adessive fifellä fifeillä ablative fifeltä fifeiltä allative fifelle fifeille essive fifenä fifeinä translative fifeksi fifeiksi instructive – fifein abessive fifettä fifeittä comitative – fifeineen

Synonyms

• fife-huilu
• sveitsinhuilu

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Italian

Noun

fife f

1. Plural form of fifa