harp

See also: Harp

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old English hearpe, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Cognate with Dutch harp, German Harfe, Swedish harpa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

harp (plural harps)

1. A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.

Derived terms

• harpist

See also

• lyre

Translations

musical instrument

• Albanian: harpë f
• Arabic: قيثارة f (qiθara)

  Egyptian Arabic: هارب m (harb)

• Armenian: տավիղ (tavił)
• Asturian: arpa f
• Catalan: arpa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豎琴, 竖琴 (zh) (shùqín)

• Czech: harfa (cs) f
• Danish: harpe
• Dutch: harp (nl) f
• Esperanto: harpo
• Estonian: harf
• Finnish: harppu (fi)
• French: harpe (fr) f
• Galician: arpa (gl) f
• German: Harfe (de) f
• Greek: άρπα (el) f (árpa)
• Hebrew: נֵבֶל (he)
• Hiligaynon: árpa
• 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)
• Jèrriais: harpe f
• Latin: sambuca f, harpa f, psalterium n
• Malay: harpa
• Maori: hāpa
• Norwegian: harpe (no) m, f
• Persian: چنگ (fa) (čang)
• Polish: harfa (pl) f
• Portuguese: harpa (pt) f
• Romanian: harfă (ro) f
• Russian: арфа (ru) f (árfa)
• Scottish Gaelic: clàrsach f, troman m, troman-ciùil m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: харфа f

  Roman: harfa (sh) f

• Slovene: harfa (sl) f
• Spanish: arpa (es) f, harpa f
• Swahili: kinubi
• Swedish: harpa (sv) c
• Tagalog: arpa f, alpa (tl)
• Turkish: arp (tr)
• Ukrainian: арфа (uk) (árfa)
• Uzbek: arfa (uz)
• Welsh: telyn (cy) f

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

• Finnish: jankuttaa (fi)
• German: auf (etwas) herumreiten

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

Anagrams

• PHAR

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Middle Dutch harpe, from Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑrp

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• IPA^(key): /hɑrp/

Noun

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

1. harp

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حرب (ḥarb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑrp/

Noun

harp (definite accusative [[{{{1}}}#Turkish|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Turkish|{{{2}}}]])

1. (dated) war

Synonyms

• Turkish: savaş
• Turkish: cenk

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Turkmen

Noun

harp (definite accusative [[{{{1}}}#Turkmen|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Turkmen|{{{2}}}]])

1. letter (of an alphabet)