trombone

English

Wikipedia

A tenor trombone

Etymology

From Italian trombone, from tromba + augmentative suffix -one.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌtrɒmˈbəʊn/, /trəmˈbəʊn/
• (US) IPA: /ˌtrɑmˈboʊn/, /trəmˈboʊn/

Noun

trombone (plural trombones)

1. A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).

   Jim plays the trombone very well.

   This trombone is very expensive.

Translations

a musical instrument in the brass family

Armenian: տրոմբոն (hy) (trombon) Catalan: trombó (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 長號 (cmn), 长号 (cmn) (chánghào) Czech: trombón (cs) m., pozoun (cs) m. Danish: basun (da) c. Esperanto: trombono (eo) Finnish: pasuuna (fi), vetopasuuna (fi) French: trombone (fr) m. Galician: trombón (gl) m. German: Posaune (de) f. Hungarian: harsona (hu) Icelandic: básúna (is) f.

Irish: trombón (ga) m. Italian: trombone (it) m. Japanese: トロンボーン (ja) (toronbōn) Norwegian: trombone (no) c. Polish: puzon (pl) m. Romanian: trombon (ro) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тромбон (sh) m. Roman: trombon (sh) m. Slovene: pozavna (sl) f. Spanish: trombón (es) m. Swahili: tromboni (sw) Swedish: trombon (sv) c.

Derived terms

• alto trombone
• tenor trombone
• bass trombone
• slide trombone
• valve trombone
• tromboning
• trombonist

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

trombone m. (plural trombones)

1. trombone
2. paper clip

Verb

trombone

1. first person singular of tromboner

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Italian

Noun

trombone m. (plural tromboni)

1. trombone

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Norwegian

Noun

trombone c.

1. trombone