strum

See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌm

Verb

strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

• strummer

Translations

play a stringed instrument

• Finnish: rämpyttää
• French: racler (fr), gratter (fr)
• German: schrammeln (de)

• Maori: rakiraki, rakuraku
• Spanish: rasguear (es)
• Vietnamese: gảy (vi), khảy

Noun

strum (plural strums)

1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
2. The act of strumming.

Anagrams

• turms