harp

See also: Harp

English

Etymology

From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɑːp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑɹp/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)p

Noun

harp (plural harps)

1. (music) 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
   1. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
4. (heraldry) A heraldic representation of the musical instrument used as a charge, as in the arms of Ireland.

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of harp

• aeolian harp
• angle harp
• angular harp
• arch harp
• autoharp
• bow harp
• claviharp

• electric harp
• frame harp
• French harp
• glass harp
• harp guitar
• harp of David
• harpsichord

• Indian harp
• jaw harp
• Jew's harp
• Judaic harp
• juice harp
• King David's harp
• mouth harp

• open harp
• pillar harp
• sacred harp
• triangular harp
• vibraharp
• wind harp

Derived terms

Terms derived from harp

• Harp

• Harper

• harper

• harpist

Related terms

• harp seal

See also

• lyre

References

• 2013. The Physics of Musical Instruments. Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing. Pg. 331.

Translations

musical instrument

• Albanian: harpë (sq) f
• Arabic: قِيثَارَة‏‎ f (qīṯāra)

  Egyptian Arabic: هارب‏‎ m (harb)

• Armenian: տավիղ (hy) (tavił)
• Asturian: arpa f
• Belarusian: а́рфа f (árfa)
• Bulgarian: а́рфа (bg) f (árfa)
• Burmese: စောင်း (my) (caung:)
• Catalan: arpa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豎琴, 竖琴 (syu⁶ kam⁴)

  Hakka: 豎琴, 竖琴 (su-khìm)

  Mandarin: 豎琴 (zh), 竖琴 (zh) (shùqín)

  Min Nan: 徛琴 (khiā-khîm)

• Czech: harfa (cs) f
• Danish: harpe
• Dutch: harp (nl) f
• Esperanto: harpo
• Estonian: harf
• Faroese: harpa f, hørpa f
• Finnish: harppu (fi)
• French: harpe (fr) f
• Galician: arpa (gl) f
• Georgian: არფა (arpa)
• German: Harfe (de) f
• Greek: άρπα (el) f (árpa)
• Hebrew: נֵבֶל‏‎ (he)
• Hiligaynon: árpa
• Hindi: वीणा (hi) f (vīṇā)
• Hungarian: hárfa (hu)
• Icelandic: harpa (is)
• Indonesian: harpa (id)
• Irish: cláirseach (ga) f, cruit (ga) f
• Italian: arpa (it) f
• Japanese: ハープ (ja) (hāpu)
• Kalmyk: ятх (yatx)

• Khmer: ពិណ (km) (pɨn)
• Korean: 하프 (ko) (hapeu)
• Latin: sambuca f, harpa f, psalterium n
• Latvian: arfa f
• Lithuanian: arfa (lt) f
• Low German: Harp
• Macedonian: харфа f (harfa)
• Malay: harpa
• Maori: hāpa
• Norman: harpe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: harpe (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: harpe f

• Persian: چنگ‏‎ (fa) (čang)
• Polish: harfa (pl) f
• Portuguese: harpa (pt) f
• Romanian: harfă (ro) f, harpă (ro) f
• Russian: а́рфа (ru) f (árfa)
• Scottish Gaelic: clàrsach f, troman m, troman-ciùil m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: харфа f

  Roman: harfa (sh) f

• Slovak: harfa f
• Slovene: harfa (sl) f
• Spanish: arpa (es) f, harpa f
• Swahili: kinubi
• Swedish: harpa (sv) c
• Tagalog: arpa f, alpa (tl)
• Thai: ฮาร์ป (háap)
• Turkish: arp (tr)
• Ukrainian: а́рфа (uk) f (árfa)
• Uzbek: arfa (uz)
• Vietnamese: thụ cầm
• Welsh: telyn (cy) f
• Yiddish: האַרפֿע‏‎ f (harfe), האַרף‏‎ m, f (harf)

Verb

harp (third-person singular simple present harps, present participle harping, simple past and past participle harped)

1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

   Why do you harp on a single small mistake?

   (US)

   Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?

   (UK)

2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
3. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
4. (transitive) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

   Thou harped my fear aright.

   — Shakespeare.

Synonyms

• keep on about
• perseverate

Translations

to repeatedly mention a subject

• Bulgarian: опявам (bg) (opjavam)
• Finnish: jankuttaa (fi)
• German: auf (etwas) herumreiten
• Japanese: くどくど言う (kudokudoiu)

• Maori: kunanu
• Swedish: tjata (sv), älta (sv), mala (sv)
• Turkish: ısrarla belirtmek, (bir şeyin) ısrarla üzerinde durmak

Anagrams

• PHAR

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑrp

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• IPA^(key): /ɦɑrp/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch harpe, from Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Low German Harp, German Harfe, West Frisian harpe, English harp, Danish harpe.

Noun

harp f, m (plural harpen, diminutive harpje n)

1. harp

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic حَرْب‏ (ḥarb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑrp/

Noun

harp (definite accusative harbı, plural harplar)

1. (dated) war

Synonyms

• savaş
• cenk

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Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic حَرْف‏ (ḥarf).

Noun

harp (definite accusative harpy, plural harplar)

1. letter (of an alphabet)

Declension

    declension of harp

	singular	plural
nominative	harp	harplar
accusative	harpy	harplary
genitive	harpyň	harplaryň
dative	harpa	harplara
locative	harpda	harplarda
ablative	harpdan	harplardan