brass instrument

English

Noun

brass instrument (plural brass instruments)

1. (music) Any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a mouthpiece (or tubular resonator).

   Coordinate term: woodwind instrument

Hyponyms

• baritone horn
• euphonium
• flugelhorn
• French horn
• sousaphone
• trombone
• trumpet
• tuba

Derived terms

• brass instrumentalist

Translations

musical instrument

• Armenian: պղնձյա փողային նվագարան (pġnjya pʻoġayin nvagaran), պղնձյա նվագարան (pġnjya nvagaran), պղնձյա փողային գործիք (pġnjya pʻoġayin gorcikʻ), պղնձյա գործիք (pġnjya gorcikʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銅管樂器 / 铜管乐器 (zh) (tóngguǎn yuèqì)

• Czech: žesťový nástroj m
• Faroese: blásturljóðføri n, blásiljóðføri n
• Finnish: vaskisoitin
• French: cuivre (fr) m
• German: Blechblasinstrument (de) n
• Greek: χάλκινα πνευστά n pl (chálkina pnefstá)
• Hungarian: rézfúvós (hu)
• Icelandic: málmblásturshljóðfæri (is) n,
• Italian: strumento ad ancia m
• Japanese: 金管楽器 (ja) (きんかんがっき, kinkan gakki)
• Korean: 금관악기(金管樂器) (ko) (geumgwanakgi)
• Macedonian: лимен дувачки инструме́нт m (limen duvački instrumént)
• Maori: tāonga pūtētere
• Polish: instrument dęty blaszany m, blacha (pl) f (slang)
• Portuguese: metal (pt) m
• Russian: ме́дный духово́й инструме́нт m (médnyj duxovój instrumént), духово́й инструме́нт (ru) m (duxovój instrumént)
• Slovene: trobilo (sl) n
• Swedish: bleckblåsinstrument (sv) n
• Turkish: üflemeli çalgı (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• brass band