mandolin

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Photograph of a mandolin.

Etymology

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmændəlɪn/, X-SAMPA: /"m{nd@lIn/

Noun

mandolin (plural mandolins)

1. (music) A stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin. They have either a bowl back or a flat back.
2. A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline).
3. (military) An RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport.

Derived terms

• mandolinist

Related terms

• mandola

Translations

musical instrument

Catalan: mandolina (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 洋琵琶 (zh) (yángpípá), 曼陀林 (zh) (màntuólín), 曼多林 (zh) (mànduōlín) Corsican: mandulinu (co) m. Czech: mandolína (cs) f. Esperanto: mandolino (eo) Estonian: mandoliin (et) Finnish: mandoliini (fi) French: mandoline (fr) f. Galician: mandolina (gl) f. German: Mandoline (de) f. Greek: μαντολίνο (el) (mantolíno) n. Hungarian: mandolin (hu) Ido: mandolino (io)

Italian: mandolino (it) Japanese: マンドリン (ja) (mandorin) Korean: 만돌린 (ko) (mandollin) Ligurian: mandolin m. Occitan: mandolina (oc) f. Polish: mandolina (pl) f. Portuguese: bandolim (pt) m. Romanian: mandolină (ro) f. Russian: мандолина (ru) (mandolína) f. Slovene: mandolina (sl) f. Spanish: mandolina (es) f. Swahili: gambusi ndogo (sw) Thai: แมนโดลิน (th) (maendohlin) Turkish: mandolin (tr)

kitchen tool — see mandoline