bagpipes

See also: Bagpipes

English

Bagpipes (a Scottish model)

Alternative forms

• bagpipe

Etymology

From earlier bagpipe, from Middle English bagpipe; equivalent to bag +‎ pipes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡ.pɑɪps/

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Noun

bagpipes pl (normally plural, singular bagpipe)

1. A musical wind instrument of Celtic origin, possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

   Bagpipes are traditionally played in most Celtic regions and many former parts of the British Empire.

   • 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 250:

     “Iʼll tell you something: there is nothing in the world like the sound of the bagpipes to raise a manʼs morale, to lift his spirits, and give him strength.”

Synonyms

• (musical wind instrument): bagpipe, pipes; the pipes (usually Scottish)

Meronyms

• (musical wind instrument): mouthpiece, neck, chanter, chanter reed, chanter reed protector, bass drone, tenor drone

Derived terms

• bagpipe lung
• bagpiper

 

Translations

musical wind instrument

• Arabic: مِزْمَار اَلْقِرْبَة‎ m (mizmār al-qirba), قِرْبَة‎ f (qirba)
• Armenian: պարկապզուկ (hy) (parkapzuk)
• Asturian: gaita (ast) f
• Belarusian: валы́нка f (valýnka)
• Breton: biniou (br)
• Bulgarian: га́йда (bg) f (gájda)
• Catalan: cornamusa (ca) f, gaita (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風笛／风笛 (zh) (fēngdí)

• Cornish: pibow sagh
• Czech: dudy (cs) pl
• Danish: sækkepibe
• Dutch: doedelzak (nl) m
• Esperanto: sakŝalmo
• Estonian: torupill, sikupill (archaic)
• Faroese: sekkjapípa f
• Finnish: säkkipilli (fi)
• French: cornemuse (fr) f
• Galician: gaita (gl) f
• Georgian: გუდასტვირი (gudasṭviri)
• German: Dudelsack (de) m, Sackpfeife f
• Greek: γκάιντα (el) f (gkáinta)
• Hebrew: חֵמֶת חֲלִילִים‎ (he) pl (ḥémet ḥalilím)
• Hindi: बैगपाइप (baigpāip)
• Hungarian: duda (hu)
• Icelandic: sekkjapípa f
• Ido: kornamuzo (io)
• Irish: píb f, píb mhála f
• Italian: cornamusa (it) f, zampogna (it) f, pive f
• Japanese: バグパイプ (ja) (bagupaipu)
• Kazakh: желбуаз (jelbuaz)
• Korean: 백파이프 (baekpaipeu)
• Latvian: dūdas, somas stabules f pl
• Lithuanian: dūdmaišis f
• Luxembourgish: Duddelsak (lb)
• Macedonian: гајда f (gajda)
• Malay: begpaip
• Mirandese: gaita de fuolhes
• Nahuatl: ehuatlapitzalli
• Norman: pouque à vent f
• Norwegian: sekkepipe m or f
• Ottoman Turkish: غایده‎ (gâyda), طولوم‎ (tulum)
• Persian: نی‌انبان‎
• Polish: dudy (pl) pl
• Portuguese: gaita de foles (pt) f (Brazil), gaita-de-foles f (Portugal)
• Romanian: cimpoi (ro) n, cimpoaie f, gaidă (ro) f
• Russian: волы́нка (ru) f (volýnka)
• Scottish Gaelic: pìob f, (Scottish) pìob-mhòr f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуде f, гајде f

  Roman: dude (sh) f, gajde (sh) f

• Slovak: gajdy (sk) f pl
• Slovene: dude (sl) f pl
• Spanish: gaita (es) f
• Swahili: bagpipes, gaida
• Swedish: säckpipa (sv) c
• Tagalog: gayta
• Turkish: gayda (tr)
• Ukrainian: воли́нка f (volýnka)
• Vietnamese: kèn túi
• Welsh: pibgod (cy) f

References

• 1999. The Companion to Irish Traditional Music. Fintan Vallely. Pg. 14.

See also

• bota bag
• musette