guitar

English

An acoustic guitar

Alternative forms

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK):

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• IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtɑɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ɡʌˈtɑɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

  Hyphenation: gui‧tar

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
2. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Synonyms

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lute
• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Derived terms

• acoustic guitar
• air guitar
• armónico guitar
• banjitar
• baritone guitar
• Baroque guitar
• bass guitar
• bowed guitar
• cigar box guitar
• classical guitar
• console steel guitar
• contraguitar
• eight-string guitar
• electric guitar
• flamenco guitar
• four-string guitar
• guitar cello
• guitarfish
• guitarist
• guitjo
• harp guitar
• lap steel guitar
• lead guitar
• lute guitar
• moon guitar
• nylon-string guitar
• parlor guitar
• pedal steel guitar
• Portuguese guitar
• resonator guitar
• rhythm guitar
• romantic guitar
• Russian guitar
• Schrammel guitar
• Selmer guitar
• seven-string guitar
• slide guitar
• Spanish guitar
• steel guitar
• tenor guitar
• twelve-stringed guitar

 

Descendants

• Cantonese: 結他／结他 (git3 taa1)
• Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)
• Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)
• Irish: giotár
• Japanese: ギター (gitā)
  • Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)
  • Min Nan: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)
• Korean: 기타 (gita)
• Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)
• Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)

Translations

musical instrument

• Afrikaans: kitaar
• Albanian: kitarë (sq) f
• Andalusian Arabic: قيثارة (qīthārah)
• Arabic: قِيثَارَة f (qīṯāra), جِيتَار m (gitār)

  Hijazi Arabic: قيتار m (gītār)

• Armenian: կիթառ (hy) (kitʻaṙ)
• Asturian: guitarra f
• Azerbaijani: gitara (az)
• Belarusian: гіта́ра f (hitára)
• Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)
• Breton: gitar m
• Bulgarian: кита́ра f (kitára)
• Burmese: ဂီတာ (my) (gita)
• Catalan: guitarra (ca) f
• Chechen: гитара (gitara)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 結他／结他 (git³ taa¹), 结他 (git³ taa¹)

  Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)

  Mandarin: 吉他 (zh) (jítā), 六弦琴 (zh) (liùxiánqín)

  Min Nan: 吉他 (gih-tah)

• Cornish: gitar m
• Czech: kytara (cs) f
• Danish: guitar (da) c
• Dutch: gitaar (nl) f
• Esperanto: gitaro (eo)
• Estonian: kitarr
• Finnish: kitara (fi)
• French: guitare (fr) f
• Galician: guitarra (gl) f
• Georgian: გიტარა (giṭara)
• German: Gitarre (de) f

  Central Franconian: Jitta f

• Greek: κιθάρα (el) f (kithára)
• Haitian Creole: gita
• Hebrew: גִּיטָרָה (he) f (gitara)
• Hiligaynon: gitara
• Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)
• Hungarian: gitár (hu)
• Icelandic: gítar (is) m
• Indonesian: gitar (id)
• Interlingua: guitarra
• Irish: giotár (ga) m
• Italian: chitarra (it) f
• Japanese: ギター (ja) (gitā)
• Karakalpak: gitar
• Kazakh: гитара (gitara)
• Khmer: គីតា (kiitaa), ហ្គីតា (giitaa)
• Korean: 기타 (ko) (gita)
• Kyrgyz: гитара (ky) (gitara)
• Lao: ກິຕາ (ki tā), ກີຕ້າ (kī tā)
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• Latin: fides f, cithara
• Latvian: ģitāra (lv) f, giča f (slang)
• Limburgish: gitaar (li)
• Lithuanian: gitara f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Gitarr

• Macedonian: гита́ра f (gitára)
• Malay: gitar
• Maltese: kitarra f
• Manx: gitar
• Maori: kitā
• Marathi: गिटार f (giṭār)
• Mongolian: гитар (mn) (gitar)
• Navajo: agaanstsiin, daaltązhgo bee ndajinéhígíí
• Norman: gùitâre f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gitar (no) m

  Nynorsk: gitar (no) m

• Persian: گیتار (fa) (gitâr)
• Polish: gitara (pl) f
• Portuguese: guitarra (pt) f, violão (pt) m
• Purepecha: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: ghitară (ro) f, chitară (ro) f
• Romansch: ghitarra f
• Russian: гита́ра (ru) f (gitára)
• Scottish Gaelic: giotàr m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гитара f

  Roman: gitara (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ගිටාරය (giṭāraya)
• Slovak: gitara f
• Slovene: kitara (sl) f
• Spanish: guitarra (es) f, jarana (es) f (small)
• Swahili: gitaa (sw)
• Swedish: gitarr (sv) c
• Tagalog: gitara
• Tajik: гитара (tg) (gitara)
• Tamil: கித்தார் (kittār)
• Telugu: గిటారు (te) (giṭāru)
• Thai: กีตาร์ (th) (gii-dtâa)
• Turkish: gitar (tr)
• Turkmen: gitar
• Ukrainian: гіта́ра (uk) f (hitára)
• Urdu: گٹار (giṭār)
• Uzbek: gitara (uz)
• Vietnamese: đàn ghi-ta, ghi-ta (vi), lục huyền cầm (六絃琴), Tây Ban cầm (西班琴)
• Welsh: gitâr
• Yiddish: גיטאַר f (gitar)
• Yup'ik: kitalaq

References

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• Ugarit

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡitar/, [ˈɡ̊itˢɑːˀ]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection

Declension of guitar

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	guitar	guitaren	guitarer	guitarerne
genitive	guitars	guitarens	guitarers	guitarernes