guitar

English

Wikipedia

An acoustic guitar

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قيثارة (qīθāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα. Compare cither.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /gI"tA:(r\)/

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  Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

• (GenAm) IPA: /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/, X-SAMPA: /gI"tAr\/

  Audio (US)

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  Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

• (Southern US) IPA: /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/, X-SAMPA: /"gI.tAr\/

  Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

  Hyphenation: gui‧tar

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

1. A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

Synonyms

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

Derived terms

acoustic guitar air guitar bass guitar electric guitar guitarist

guitarfish harpguitar lead guitar rhythm guitar

Translations

instrument

• Afrikaans: kitaar (af)
• Albanian: kitarë (sq) f
• Arabic: قيثارة (ar) (qithaara) f, جيتار (ar) (gitaar) m
• Armenian: կիթառ (hy) (kit'aṙ)
• Asturian: guitarra (ast) f
• Azeri: gitara (az)
• Belarusian: гітара (be) (hitára) f
• Bulgarian: китара (bg) (kitára) f
• Burmese: ဂီတာ (my) (kitaa)
• Catalan: guitarra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吉他 (cmn) (jítā), 六弦琴 (cmn) (liùxiánqín)

• Czech: kytara (cs) f
• Danish: guitar (da) c
• Dutch: gitaar (nl) f
• Esperanto: gitaro (eo)
• Estonian: kitarr (et)
• Finnish: kitara (fi)
• French: guitare (fr) f
• Galician: guitarra (gl) f
• Georgian: გიტარა (ka) (gitara)
• German: Gitarre (de) f
• Greek: κιθάρα (el) (kithára) f
• Haitian Creole: gita
• Hebrew: גִּיטָרָה (he) (gitara) f
• Hiligaynon: gitara
• Hindi: गिटार (hi)
• Hungarian: gitár (hu)
• Icelandic: gítar (is) m
• Indonesian: gitar (id)
• Interlingua: guitarra (ia)
• Irish: giotár (ga) m
• Italian: chitarra (it) f
• Japanese: ギター (ja) (gitā)
• Korean: 기타 (ko) (gita)
• Kölsch: Jitta f
• Latin: fides (la) f, cithara (la)

• Latvian: ģitāra (lv) f
• Limburgish: gitaar (li)
• Lojban: jgitrgitara (jbo)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Gitarr

• Macedonian: гитара (mk) (gitára) f
• Malay: gitar (ms)
• Maltese: kitarra (mt) f
• Marathi: गिटार (mr) (gīṭāra) f
• Navajo: agaanstsiin
• Norman: gùitâre f
• Norwegian: gitar (no)
• Persian: گیتار (fa) (gitâr)
• Polish: gitara (pl) f
• Portuguese: guitarra (pt) f, violão (pt) m
• Romanian: ghitară (ro) f, chitară (ro) f
• Romansch: ghitarra (rm) f
• Russian: гитара (ru) (gitára) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гитара (sh) f

  Roman: gitara (sh) f

• Slovak: gitara (sk) f
• Slovene: kitara (sl) f
• Spanish: guitarra (es) f, jarana (es) f (small)
• Swahili: gitaa (sw)
• Swedish: gitarr (sv) c
• Tagalog: gitara (tl)
• Tamil: நரம்புக்கலம் (ta) (narambukkalam)
• Thai: พิณ (th) (pin)
• Turkish: gitar (tr)
• Turkmen: gitar (tk)
• Ukrainian: гітара (uk) (hitára) f
• Uzbek: gitara (uz)
• Vietnamese: đàn ghi-ta (vi), ghi-ta (vi), lục huyền cầm (vi) (六絃琴 (vi))
• Yiddish: גיטאַר (yi) f

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• banjo
• bass
• mandolin
• sitar
• ukulele

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Danish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡitar/, [ˈɡ̊itˢɑːˀ]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection

    Inflection of guitar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	guitar	guitaren	guitarer	guitarerne
genitive	guitars	guitarens	guitarers	guitarernes