ocarina

English

An ocarina

Alternative forms

• ochorina

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis

Proto-Italic *awis

Latin avis

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -ica

Latin *avica

Late Latin auca

Italian oca

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īna

Italian -ina

Italian ocarinabor.

English ocarina

Borrowed from Italian ocarina (literally “little goose”), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒkəˈɹiːnə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑkəˈɹinə/, /oʊkəˈɹinə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

ocarina (plural ocarinas)

1. (music) A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.

Derived terms

• ocarinist

Translations

musical instrument

• Arabic: أكرين (akrin)
• Armenian: օկարինա (hy) (ōkarina)
• Azerbaijani: okarina
• Catalan: ocarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 陶笛 (tou⁴ dek⁶)

  Mandarin: 陶笛 (zh) (táodí)

• Czech: okarína (cs) f
• Danish: ocarina c, okarina c
• Dutch: ocarina (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: okarino
• Estonian: okariin
• Finnish: okariina (fi)
• French: ocarina (fr) m
• Friulian: ocarine f
• Galician: ocarina (gl) f
• Georgian: ოქარინა (okarina)
• German: Okarina (de) f
• Greek: οκαρίνα (el) f (okarína)
• Hebrew: אוקרינה
• Hungarian: okarina (hu)
• Icelandic: okkarína (is) f
• Ido: okarino (io)
• Indonesian: okarina (id)
• Irish: ócairín m
• Italian: ocarina (it) f
• Japanese: オカリナ (ja) (okarina)
• Khmer: អូការីណា (ʼoukaariinaa)
• Korean: 오카리나 (okarina)
• Lao: ໂອກາລິນາ (ʼō kā li nā)
• Latvian: okarīna
• Lithuanian: okarina
• Maltese: okarina
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Nahuatl: huilacapītztli
• Norwegian: okarina, okarina m

  Bokmål: leirgjøk m (literally “clay cuckoo”)

  Nynorsk: leirgauk m

• Persian: اوکارینا (okârinâ)
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: okaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: ocarina (pt) f
• Romanian: ocarină (ro) f
• Russian: окари́на (ru) f (okarína)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: окари́на f

  Latin: okarína (sh) f

• Slovene: okarína (sl) f
• Spanish: ocarina (es) f
• Swedish: okarina (sv) c, lergök (sv) c
• Thai: โอคาริน่า
• Turkish: okarina (tr)
• Welsh: ocarina f
• Yiddish: אָקאַרינע f (okarine)

See also

• vessel flute

Anagrams

• Aaronic

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian ocarina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [u.kəˈɾi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.kəˈɾi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [o.kaˈɾi.na]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarines)

1. ocarina

References

• “ocarina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ocarina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “ocarina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “ocarina”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Etymology

Italian ocarina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ka.ʁi.na/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

ocarina m (plural ocarinas)

1. ocarina

Further reading

• “ocarina”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

From oca (“goose”) + -ina (diminutive suffix). Coined by Italian musical instrument maker Giuseppe Donati, inventor of the modern ocarina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.kaˈri.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧rì‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarine)

1. (music) ocarina

Further reading

• ocarina in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• “ocarina”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• ancorai, arancio, cariano, carnaio

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.kaˈɾĩ.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.kɐˈɾi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧ri‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarinas)

1. (music) ocarina (an oval wind instrument)

Further reading

• “ocarina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ocarina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis

Proto-Italic *awis

Latin avis

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -ica

Latin *avica

Late Latin auca

Italian oca

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īna

Italian -ina

Italian ocarinabor.

Spanish ocarina

Borrowed from Italian ocarina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /okaˈɾina/ [o.kaˈɾi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: o‧ca‧ri‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarinas)

1. ocarina

Further reading

• “ocarina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

ocarina c

1. (music) alternative form of okarina (“ocarina”)

Declension

Declension of ocarina

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ocarina	ocarinas
	definite	ocarinan	ocarinans
plural	indefinite	ocarinor	ocarinors
	definite	ocarinorna	ocarinornas

References

• “ocarina”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “ocarina”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ocarina”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)