cymbal

See also: Cymbal and cymbał

English

Etymology

From Middle English cymbal, from Old English cimbal, cimbala and Old French cimbale, both from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”). See also chime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmbəl/, [ˈsɪmbɫ̩]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪmbəl
• Homophone: symbol

Noun

A cymbal on a stand.

cymbal (plural cymbals)

2. (music) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,
     Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,
     Make the sun dance.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13::

     Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act I, page 5:

     Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne,
     As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.

   • 1881–82, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The Mystic Trumpeter":

     I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang […]

Hyponyms

• china

Derived terms

• China cymbal
• Chinese cymbal
• clash cymbal
• crash cymbal
• cymbalist
• cymballike
• finger cymbal
• flying cymbal
• pang cymbal
• ride cymbal
• sizzle cymbal
• sock cymbal
• splash cymbal
• suspended cymbal
• swish cymbal
• trash cymbal

Descendants

• → Welsh: symbal m or f

Translations

concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck

• Arabic: صَنْج m (ṣanj)
• Armenian: ծնծղա (cncġa)
• Assamese: তাল (tal)
• Belarusian: тале́ркі f pl (taljérki)
• Bhojpuri: झांझ (jhāñjh)
• Bulgarian: чинел (bg) m (činel)
• Burmese: ခွက်ခွင်း (my) (hkwakhkwang:) (obsolete)
• Catalan: platerets (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐃鈸 / 铙钹 (zh) (náobó), 鈸 / 钹 (zh) (bó), 鑔 / 镲 (zh) (chǎ)

• Czech: činel m
• Danish: bækken (da) c
• Dutch: klankbekken n
• Esperanto: cimbalo (eo)
• Estonian: taldrik (et)
• Finnish: lautanen (fi), symbaali (fi)
• French: cymbale (fr) f
• German: Becken (de) n, Zimbel (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌼𐍉 f (klismō)
• Greek: κύμβαλο (el) n (kýmvalo)

  Ancient Greek: κύμβαλον n (kúmbalon)

• Hindi: झाँझ (hi) f (jhāñjh)
• Hungarian: cintányér (hu)
• Icelandic: málmgjöll n pl, symball m
• Ido: cimbalo (io)
• Irish: ciombal m
• Italian: piatto (it) m
• Japanese: シンバル (ja) (shimbaru)
• Korean: 제금 (jegeum), 바라 (bara), 심벌즈 (ko) (simbeoljeu)
• Latin: cymbalum n
• Latvian: šķīvji m pl
• Macedonian: чинели m pl (čineli), чампари pl (čampari)
• Māori: tīwēwē
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bekken (no) n, cymbal m

  Nynorsk: bekken n, cymbal m

• Persian: سنج (fa) (senj), چلپ (fa) (čalap)
• Polish: talerz (pl) m, czynel (pl) m
• Portuguese: prato (pt) m
• Russian: таре́лки (ru) f pl (tarélki), таре́лка (ru) f (tarélka)
• Serbo-Croatian: činele (sh) f pl

  Cyrillic: цимбал m, цимбало, тас n

  Latin: cimbal (sh) m, cimbalo, tas (sh) n

• Slovene: činela f
• Spanish: plato (es) m sg, platos (es) m pl, platillo (es) m sg, platillos (es) m pl, címbalo (es) m sg, címbalos (es) m pl, cimbales m pl
• Swedish: cymbal (sv) c, bäcken (sv) n (uncommon)
• Tagalog: pompiyang
• Thai: ฉาบ (th) (chàap)
• Turkish: halile (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: زل (zil)

• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎕𐎍𐎚𐎎 (mṣltm)
• Ukrainian: тарілки́ (uk) f pl (tarilký)
• Vietnamese: chũm choẹ (vi)

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cymbal.

Noun

cymbal m (plural cymbalys)

1. (music) cymbal

References

• “cymbal” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʏmˈbɑːl/

Noun

cymbal m (definite singular cymbalen, indefinite plural cymbalar, definite plural cymbalane)

1. alternative spelling of symbal

Swedish

cymbaler

Noun

cymbal c

1. cymbal
2. dulcimer

Declension

Declension of cymbal

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cymbal	cymbals
	definite	cymbalen	cymbalens
plural	indefinite	cymbaler	cymbalers
	definite	cymbalerna	cymbalernas

References

• “cymbal”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “cymbal”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “cymbal”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)