dulcimer
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French doulcemelle, probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: dul‧ci‧mer
Noun
dulcimer (plural dulcimers)
- (music) A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal. It is played on the lap or horizontally on a table. Some have their own legs. These musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
- The two classes of dulcimer are the "Mountain" or "Appalachian" dulcimer (plucked and played with a quill, usually a goose quill) and the hammered dulcimer (played by tapping on the strings with small "hammers"). See also: zither
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems[1], Courier Dover Publications, published 1992, →ISBN, page 59:
- A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
musical instrument
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See also
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
dulcimer
Declension
Inflection of dulcimer (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | dulcimer | dulcimerit | ||
genitive | dulcimerin | dulcimerien dulcimereiden dulcimereitten | ||
partitive | dulcimeria | dulcimereita dulcimereja | ||
illative | dulcimeriin | dulcimereihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | dulcimer | dulcimerit | ||
accusative | nom. | dulcimer | dulcimerit | |
gen. | dulcimerin | |||
genitive | dulcimerin | dulcimerien dulcimereiden dulcimereitten | ||
partitive | dulcimeria | dulcimereita dulcimereja | ||
inessive | dulcimerissa | dulcimereissa | ||
elative | dulcimerista | dulcimereista | ||
illative | dulcimeriin | dulcimereihin | ||
adessive | dulcimerilla | dulcimereilla | ||
ablative | dulcimerilta | dulcimereilta | ||
allative | dulcimerille | dulcimereille | ||
essive | dulcimerina | dulcimereina | ||
translative | dulcimeriksi | dulcimereiksi | ||
abessive | dulcimeritta | dulcimereitta | ||
instructive | — | dulcimerein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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