English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French flaute, from Provençal flaut, ultimately from three possibilities:
- Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laut (“lute”)
- From Latin flare (“to blow”)
- Imitative.
Pronunciation [edit]
flute
(woodwind instrument)
flute (plural flutes)
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
- A helical groove going up a drill bit which allows the drilled out material to come up out of the hole as it's drilled.
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove in a pillar, or a similar groove in a rifle barrel used to cut down the weight.
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Translations [edit]
woodwind instrument
- Afrikaans: fluit (af)
- Albanian: flaut (sq) f
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: ناي (ar) (nāy)
- Egyptian Arabic: ناي (nāy) m, فلوت (flūt) m
- Aragonese: flauta (an) f
- Armenian: ֆլեյտա (hy) (fleyta)
- Asturian: flauta (ast) f
- Azeri: fleyta (az)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: txirula (eu)
- Belarusian: флейта (be) (fljéjta) f
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: флейта (bg) (fléjta) f
- Burmese: ပလွေ (my) (pa̱lwei)
- Catalan: flauta (ca) f
- Chamicuro: ajtakli
- Cherokee: ᎠᏤᎷᎯᏍᏗ (chr) (atseluhisdi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 長笛 (cmn), 长笛 (cmn) (chángdí), 笛 (cmn) (dí)
- Czech: flétna (cs) f
- Danish: fløjte (da) c
- Dutch: fluit (nl)
- Esperanto: fluto (eo)
- Estonian: flööt (et)
- Faroese: floyta (fo) f
- Finnish: huilu (fi)
- French: flûte (fr) f
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: frauta (gl) f
- Georgian: ფლეიტა (ka) (pleita)
- German: Flöte (de) f, Querflöte (de) f
- Gilbertese: te riri ni man
- Greek: φλάουτο (el) (fláouto) n
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: mabuusaa (ha)
- Hebrew: חָלִיל (he) (khalil) m
- Hindi: बांसुरी (hi) (bānsurī) f, बंसी (hi) (bansī) f
- Hungarian: fuvola (hu)
- Icelandic: flauta (is) f
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: suling (id)
- Interlingue: flaute (ie)
- Irish: fliúit (ga) f
- Italian: flauto (it) m
- Japanese: フルート (ja) (furūto), 笛 (ja) (ふえ, fue)
- Jèrriais: fliûte f
- Kannada: ಕೊಳಲು (kn) (koḷalu)
- Kazakh: сырнай (kk) (sırnay), флейта (kk) (fleyta)
- Khmer: ខ្លុយ (km) (kloy)
- Korean: 플루트 (ko) (peulluteu)
- Kurdish: bilûr (ku) f, ney (ku) f, fîq (ku) f, bilûl (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: флейта (ky) (fleyta), най (ky) (nay)
- Lao: ຂຸ່ຍ (lo) (kʰūy)
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- Latin: tībia (la) f
- Latvian: fleite (lv) f
- Lithuanian: fleita (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: флејта (mk) (fléjta) f
- Malay: serunai (ms), seruling (ms)
- Malayalam: ഓടക്കുഴൽ (ml)
- Maltese: flawt (mt) f
- Manx: maireen (gv)
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: лимбэ (mn) (limbe)
- Navajo: tsʼisǫ́ǫ́s
- Norwegian: fløyte (no) f
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: flaüta (oc) f, flaüita (oc) f, flèita (oc) f, floita (oc) f
- Old French: fleüte f
- Oriya: ବଂଶୀ (or) (baṁśī)
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: فلوت (fa) (flut)
- Polish: flet (pl) m
- Portuguese: flauta (pt) f
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: flaut (ro) n
- Romansch: flauta traversa (rm) f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), flöta traversa (rm) f (Vallader), flauta (rm) f (Surmiran), flöta (rm) f (Puter, Vallader)
- Russian: флейта (ru) (fléjta) f
- Scottish Gaelic: cuisle-chiùil (gd) f, cuislean (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фрула (sh) f, флаута (sh) f
- Roman: frula (sh) f, flauta (sh) f
- Slovak: flauta (sk) f
- Slovene: flavta (sl) f
- Spanish: flauta (es) f
- Swahili: digali (sw), filimbi (sw)
- Swedish: flöjt (sv)
- Tagalog: pluta (tl), bansi (tl)
- Tajik: най (tg) (nay)
- Tamil: புல்லாங்குழல் (ta) (pullaanguzhal)
- Tatar: сыбызгы (tt) (sıbızğı)
- Telugu: వంశి (te) (vaṅśi)
- Thai: ฟลุต (th) (flút), ขลุ่ย (th) (klùi)
- Turkish: zurna (tr), sipsi (tr), flüt (tr), flavta (tr)
- Turkmen: tüýdük (tk)
- Ukrainian: флейта (uk) (fléjta) f
- Urdu: بانسری (ur) (bānsurī) f
- Uzbek: fleyta (uz)
- Vietnamese: sáo (vi), cái sáo (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: ffliwt (cy) f
- Yiddish: פֿלייט (yi) (fleyt) f
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helical groove going up a drill bit
architecture: vertical groove in a pillar
See also [edit]
flute (third-person singular simple present flutes, present participle fluting, simple past and past participle fluted)
- (intransitive) To play on a flute.
- (intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
- (transitive) To utter with a flutelike sound.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII:
- “Oh, there's my precious Poppet,” said Phyllis, as a distant barking reached the ears. “He's asking for his dinner, the sweet little angel. All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy.
- (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to make a flutelike sound
to utter with flutelike sound
External links [edit]
French [edit]
flute f (plural flutes)
- Alternative spelling of flûte.
Flute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Flute in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
