French horn

English

Etymology

French + horn.

Noun

French horn (plural French horns)

1. (music, US) A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.

Derived terms

• French hornist

Translations

musical instrument

• Armenian: վալտորն (hy) (valtorn)
• Catalan: trompa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法國號／法国号 (zh) (fǎguóhào), 法国号 (zh) (Fǎguóhào), 圓號／圆号 (yuánhào), 圆号 (yuánhào)

• Finnish: käyrätorvi (fi)
• French: cor d’harmonie (fr) m
• German: Waldhorn n
• Hungarian: kürt (hu), vadászkürt (hu)
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• Italian: corno francese m
• Polish: waltornia (pl)
• Portuguese: trompa (pt) f
• Romanian: corn francez n, corn de armonie n
• Russian: валто́рна (ru) f (valtórna)
• Serbo-Croatian: хорна m
• Slovene: francoski rog m
• Swahili: baragumu ya kifaransa

See also

• double horn
• trumpet

Further reading

• French horn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia