strum

See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

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Verb

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

The sound of a ukelele being strummed

1. (ambitransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

• strummer

Translations

play a stringed instrument

• Bulgarian: дрънкам (bg) (drǎnkam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扫弦 (sǎoxián)

• Czech: brnkat impf, zabrnkat pf
• Finnish: rämpyttää (fi)
• French: racler (fr), gratter (fr)
• German: schrammeln (de)
• Hungarian: penget (hu)
• Maori: rakiraki (mi), rakuraku
• Polish: brzdąkać impf, brzdąknąć pf, brzdękać impf, brzdęknąć pf
• Russian: бренча́ть (ru) impf (brenčátʹ)
• Spanish: rasguear (es), charrasquear (es)
• Vietnamese: gảy (vi), khảy

Noun

strum (plural strums)

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

   hear the strum of a guitar

2. The act of strumming.

   give the banjo a little strum

Derived terms

• strum box

Anagrams

• Sturm, turms

Albanian

Etymology

Not attested until the 20th century. A byform of strugë (“swamp; furrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɾum/
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

strum m (plural struma, definite strumi, definite plural strumat)

1. deep pool in a river

   Synonym: pellg

2. furrow, trench for drainage in a swampy place
3. swamp, wetland, swampland

   Synonyms: ligatinë, moçal

References

• “strum,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 1797b
• Svane, Gunnar (1992) Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Acta Iutlandica. Humanistische Reihe; 67) (in German), Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 171f.
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “strum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 404