violin

See also violín

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌvaɪəˈlɪn/, X-SAMPA: /vaI@"lIn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

violin (plural violins)

1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string. Pitch is set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XX:

     She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.

2. (music) A violinist.

   The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

Synonyms

• fiddle

Related terms

• first violin
• second violin
• viol
• viola
• violinist
• violoncello

See also

• second fiddle

Translations

string instrument

• Afrikaans: viool (af)
• Albanian: violina (sq) f
• Arabic: كمان (ar) (kamān) m
• Armenian: ջութակ (hy) (ǰut'ak)
• Asturian: violín (ast) m
• Azeri: skripka (az)
• Basque: biolin (eu)
• Belarusian: скрыпка (be) (skrýpka) f
• Bengali: বেহালা (bn) (behala)
• Breton: violoñs (br) m
• Bulgarian: цигулка (bg) (cigúlka) f
• Burmese: တယော (my) (ta̱jo:)
• Catalan: violí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小提琴 (cmn) (xiǎotíqín)

• Czech: housle (cs) f pl
• Danish: violin (da) c
• Dutch: viool (nl)
• Esperanto: violono (eo)
• Estonian: viiul (et)
• Faroese: violin (fo) f, fiól (fo) f
• Finnish: viulu (fi)
• French: violon (fr) m
• Galician: violín (gl) m
• Georgian: ვიოლინო (ka) (violino)
• German: Geige (de) f, Violine (de) f
• Greek: βιολί (el) (biolí) n
• Greenlandic: agiaq (kl)
• Hebrew: כינור (he) (Kinor) m
• Hindi: वायलिन (hi) (vāyalin), बेला (hi) (belā), सारंगी (hi) (sāraṅgī)
• Hungarian: hegedű (hu)
• Icelandic: fiðla (is) f
• Ido: violino (io)
• Indonesian: biola (id)
• Irish: veidhlín (ga) m, veidheal (ga) f
• Italian: violino (it) m
• Japanese: バイオリン (ja) (baiorin)
• Kazakh: скрипка (kk) (skrïpka)
• Khmer: វីយោឡុង (km) (viiyouloŋ)
• Korean: 바이올린 (ko) (baiollin)
• Kurdish: keman (ku) f, kemançe (ku) f, viyolîn (ku) f
• Kyrgyz: скрипка (ky) (skripka)
• Lao: ຊຶງ (lo) (síŋ), ຊຸງ (lo) (súŋ)

• Latin: (Modern Latin) violinum (la)
• Latvian: vijole (lv)
• Lithuanian: smuikas (lt)
• Lojban: jgitrviolino (jbo)
• Macedonian: виолина (mk) (violína) f
• Malay: biola (ms)
• Marathi: वायोलिन (mr) (vāyolina) f
• Mongolian: хийл хөгжим (mn) (hijl högžim)
• Norwegian: fiolin (no) m
• Occitan: violon (oc) m
• Persian: ویولن (fa) (viyolon)
• Polish: skrzypce (pl) pl
• Portuguese: violino (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Quechua: wiyulin (qu)
• Romanian: vioară (ro) f
• Romansch: gìa (rm) f, violina (rm) f
• Russian: скрипка (ru) (skrípka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: fidheall (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виолина (sh) f

  Roman: violina (sh) f

• Slovak: husle (sk) f pl
• Slovene: violina (sl) f
• Spanish: violín (es) m
• Swahili: fidla (sw)
• Swedish: fiol (sv), violin (sv)
• Tajik: скрипка (tg) (skripka), ғиҷҷак (tg) (ġijjak), камонча (tg) (kamonča)
• Tamil: வயலின் (ta) (vayalin)
• Tatar: скрипка (tt) (skripka)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ไวโอลิน (th) (wai-oh-lin)
• Turkish: keman (tr)
• Turkmen: skripka (tk)
• Ukrainian: скрипка (uk) (skrýpka) f
• Urdu: سارنگی (ur) (sarangi) m
• Uzbek: skripka (uz)
• Vietnamese: vĩ cầm (vi)
• Waray-Waray: biyolin
• Welsh: feiolin (cy) f
• West Frisian: fioele (fy)
• Zulu: ivayolini (zu)

See also

• bass viol
• cello
• double bass
• viola
• first violinist
• second violinist

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Catalan

Verb

violin

1. Third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar.
2. Third-person plural imperative form of violar.

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /violiːn/, [vioˈliːˀn]

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

1. violin

Inflection

    Inflection of violin

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	violin	violinen	violiner	violinerne
genitive	violins	violinens	violiners	violinernes