ocarina

English

An ocarina

Alternative forms

• ochorina

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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

a musical instrument

• Arabic: أكرين (akrin)
• Catalan: ocarina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陶笛 (zh) (táodí)

• Czech: okarína (cs) f
• Dutch: ocarina (nl) f, ocarina (nl) m
• Esperanto: okarino
• Finnish: okariina (fi)
• French: ocarina (fr) m
• Galician: ocarina (gl)
• German: Okarina (de) f
• Icelandic: okkarína (is) f
• Ido: okarino (io)
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• Irish: ócairín m
• Italian: ocarina (it) f
• Japanese: オカリナ (ja) (okarina)
• Polish: okaryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: ocarina (pt) f
• Russian: окари́на (ru) f (okarína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: окари́на f

  Roman: okarína (sh) f

• Slovene: okarína (sl) f
• Spanish: ocarina (es) f
• Swedish: okarina (sv) c, lergök (sv) c

See also

• vessel flute

Anagrams

• Aaronic

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Catalan

Etymology

From Italian ocarina.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarines)

1. ocarina

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Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of oca (“goose”), derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *auca < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin *avica, from classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin avis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧rì‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarine)

1. (music) ocarina

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧ri‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarinas)

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Italian ocarina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /okaˈɾina/ [o.kaˈɾi.na]
• Hyphenation: o‧ca‧ri‧na

Noun

ocarina f (plural ocarinas)

1. ocarina