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An Italian harpsichord from 1677.
Early 1600s, borrowed from French harpechord (“harp string”), from New Latin harpichordium, from harpa (“harp”) + chorda (“string”). Influenced by and possibly also borrowed from Italian arpicordo, producing variant spellings. The unetymological -s-, which predominates by the 1660s, is of unclear origin.
harpsichord (plural harpsichords)
- (music) A stringed musical instrument with a keyboard, the mechanical precusor to the fortepiano, in which each key causes a plectrum to pluck a corresponding tuned string, producing a bright, sharp tone similar to that of a harp.
musical instrument
- Afrikaans: klavesimbel
- Albanian: klaviçembal m
- Arabic: بِيَانُ القِيثَارِي m (biyānu l-qīṯārī)
- Armenian: կլավիկորդ (hy) (klavikord), կլավեսին (hy) (klavesin)
- Azerbaijani: klavesin
- Belarusian: клавесі́н m (klavjesín)
- Bulgarian: клавеси́н m (klavesín)
- Catalan: clavicèmbal (ca) m, clavecí (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大鍵琴 / 大键琴 (zh) (dàjiànqín)
- Czech: cembalo (cs) n
- Danish: cembalo c
- Dutch: klavecimbel (nl)
- Esperanto: klaviceno
- Estonian: klavessiin
- Faroese: kembalo f
- Finnish: cembalo (fi), klavesiini (fi)
- French: clavecin (fr) m
- Friulian: clavicembal m
- Galician: clavecín m, clavicémbalo (gl) m
- Georgian: კლავესინი (ḳlavesini)
- German: Spinett (de) n, Cembalo (de) n
- Greek: τσέμπαλο (el) n (tsémpalo)
- Hebrew: צֶ׳מבָּלוֹ (he)
- Hungarian: csembaló (hu)
- Icelandic: semball (is) m
- Ido: klavikordo (io)
- Irish: cruitchlár m
- Italian: clavicembalo (it) m, cembalo (it) m
- Japanese: チェンバロ (ja) (chenbaro), ハープシコード (hāpushikōdo), クラヴサン (kuravusan)
- Korean: 하프시코드 (hapeusikodeu)
- Latin: harpicordium (New Latin)
- Latvian: klavesīns m
- Lithuanian: klavesinas m
- Macedonian: чембало n (čembalo), клавичембало n (klavičembalo)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: cembalo
- Occitan: clavecin m
- Persian: هارپسیکورد (hârpsikôrd)
- Polish: klawesyn (pl) m
- Portuguese: cravo (pt) m
- Romanian: clavecin (ro) n
- Russian: клавеси́н (ru) m (klavesín)
- Scottish Gaelic: cruit-chòrda f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чембало n
- Latin: čembalo (sh) n
- Sicilian: clavicìmmalu m
- Slovak: čembalo
- Slovene: čembalo (sl) m
- Spanish: clavecín m; clave m; clavicordio (es); clavicémbalo
- Swedish: cembalo (sv) c
- Thai: ฮาร์ปซิคอร์ด (hâap sí kòt)
- Turkish: klavsen (tr)
- Ukrainian: клавеси́н (uk) m (klavesýn)
- Vietnamese: đàn clavico
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: harpsicord m or f, (obsolete) absicol f
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