harfa

See also: hárfa, harfă, and harfą

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Old High German harfa, from Proto-West Germanic *harpā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦarfa]

Noun

harfa f (relational adjective harfový)

1. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

Declension of harfa (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	harfa	harfy
genitive	harfy	harf
dative	harfě	harfám
accusative	harfu	harfy
vocative	harfo	harfy
locative	harfě	harfách
instrumental	harfou	harfami

Kashubian

Alternative forms

• arfa

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German harpfe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.fa/
• Rhymes: -arfa
• Syllabification: har‧fa

Noun

harfa f (diminutive harfòwi)

1. sifter
2. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

Declension of harfa

	singular	plural
nominative	harfa	harfë
genitive	harfë	harf/harfów
dative	harfie	harfóm
accusative	harfã	harfë
instrumental	harfą	harfama
locative	harfie	harfach
vocative	harfa/harfò	harfë

Derived terms

nouns

• harfista
• harfistka
• harfiôrka
• harfiôrz

verbs

• harfòwac impf

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1893), “harfa”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 50
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “arfa”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1], volume 1, page 35
• “(h)arfa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Polish

harfa

Alternative forms

• arfa (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish arfa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.fa/

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• Rhymes: -arfa
• Syllabification: har‧fa

Noun

harfa f

1. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

Declension of harfa

	singular	plural
nominative	harfa	harfy
genitive	harfy	harf
dative	harfie	harfom
accusative	harfę	harfy
instrumental	harfą	harfami
locative	harfie	harfach
vocative	harfo	harfy

Derived terms

nouns

• harfista
• harfistka

Further reading

• harfa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• harfa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈharfa]

Noun

harfa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of harfă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old High German harfa, from Proto-West Germanic *harpā.

Noun

hȃrfa f (Cyrillic spelling ха̑рфа)

1. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

Declension of harfa

	singular	plural
nominative	harfa	harfe
genitive	harfe	hȃrfā / hȃrfī
dative	harfi	harfama
accusative	harfu	harfe
vocative	harfo	harfe
locative	harfi	harfama
instrumental	harfom	harfama

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Old High German harfa, from Proto-West Germanic *harpā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦarfa]

Noun

harfa f (relational adjective harfový)

1. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

Declension of harfa
(pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	harfa	harfy
genitive	harfy	hárf
dative	harfe	harfám
accusative	harfu	harfy
locative	harfe	harfách
instrumental	harfou	harfami

Further reading

• “harfa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology

From Old High German harfa, from Proto-West Germanic *harpā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xáːrfa/

Noun

hȃrfa f

1. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	hárfa
gen. sing.	hárfe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	hárfa	hárfi	hárfe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	hárfe	hárf	hárf
dative (dajȃlnik)	hárfi	hárfama	hárfam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	hárfo	hárfi	hárfe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	hárfi	hárfah	hárfah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	hárfo	hárfama	hárfami

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Harfe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaʀ.fa/
• Rhymes: -aʀfa
• Syllabification: har‧fa

Noun

harfa f (related adjective harfowy)

1. (music) harp (a musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body)

Declension

Declension of harfa (feminine hard stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	harfa	harfje	harfy
genitive	harfy	harfow	harfow
dative	harfje	harfomaj	harfam
accusative	harfu	harfje	harfy
instrumental	harfu	harfomaj	harfami
locative	harfje	harfomaj	harfach
vocative	harfa	harfje	harfy

References

• “harfa” in Soblex