xylophone

See also: Xylophone

English

Etymology

From xylo- (“of wood”) +‎ -phone (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: zīʹlə-fōn', IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ.lə.ˌfəʊn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

• Audio (GA):

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• Hyphenation: xy‧lo‧phone

Noun

xylophone (plural xylophones)

1. (music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

   All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

Derived terms

• concert xylophone
• metal xylophone
• stone xylophone
• xylophonist

 

Translations

musical instrument

• Afrikaans: xilofoon
• Albanian: ksilofon (sq)
• Arabic: زَايْلُفُون m (zaylufūn)
• Armenian: քսիլոֆոն (hy) (kʻsilofon)
• Asturian: xilófonu m
• Azerbaijani: ksilofon
• Basque: xilofono
• Belarusian: ксілафон m (ksilafón)
• Bulgarian: ксилофон m (ksilofon)
• Burmese: ပတ္တလား (my) (patta.la:)
• Catalan: xilòfon (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓ ᏗᎦᎾᎵ ᏗᎬᏅᏍᏙᏗ (ada diganali digvnvsdodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 木琴 (muk⁶ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 木琴 (zh) (mùqín)

• Czech: xylofon (cs) m
• Danish: xylofon (da) c
• Dutch: xylofoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: ksilofono
• Estonian: ksülofon
• Faroese: sylofon f
• Finnish: ksylofoni (fi)
• French: xylophone (fr) m
• Galician: xilófono (gl) m
• German: Xylophon (de) n
• Greek: ξυλόφωνο (el) n (xylófono)
• Hebrew: קסילופון (he) m (ksilofón)
• Hungarian: xilofon (hu)
• Icelandic: sílófónn m
• Ido: xilofono (io)
• Indonesian: xilofon (id)
• Irish: xileafón m
• Italian: xilofono (it) m
• Japanese: 木琴 (ja) (もっきん, mokkin), シロフォン (shirofon)
• Korean: 실로폰 (ko) (sillopon)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: xylophonium n
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• Latvian: ksilofons m
• Lithuanian: ksilofonas m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Xylophon, Xylofon

• Macedonian: ксилофон m (ksilofon)
• Malagasy: atranatrana (mg)
• Malay: xilofon (ms)
• Marathi: जाय्लोफोन m (zāylofona)
• Mirandese: xilofone
• Moksha: кальхциямат (kaľhćijamat), ксилофон (kśilofon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: xylofon m

  Nynorsk: xylofon m

• Persian: سنتور چوبی
• Polish: ksylofon (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: xilofone (pt) m
• Romanian: xilofon (ro) m
• Russian: ксилофо́н (ru) m (ksilofón)
• Silesian: ksylofůn
• Sinhalese: සයිලොෆෝන් (sayilofōn)
• Slovak: xylofón m
• Slovene: ksilofon (sl) m
• Spanish: xilófono (es) m
• Swahili: zilofoni, marimba ya kizungu
• Swedish: xylofon (sv) c
• Tagalog: silopono
• Tamil: சுரம் இசைவி (curam icaivi)
• Thai: ไซโลโฟน (sai-loh-fohn)
• Tibetan: ཤིང་དཀྲོལ། (shing dkrol)
• Turkish: ksilofon (tr)
• Ukrainian: ксилофо́н m (ksylofón)
• Uzbek: ksilofon
• Vietnamese: mộc cầm
• Welsh: seiloffon m
• West Frisian: ksylofoan
• Yiddish: קסילאָפֿאָן m (ksilofon)

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone

References

• Vienna Symphony Orchestra. "Xylophone".

Verb

xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Anagrams

• oxyphenol

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French

Etymology

From xylo- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡzi.lɔ.fɔn/, /ksi.lɔ.fɔn/

• audio:

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Noun

xylophone m (plural xylophones)

1. xylophone

Descendants

• → Russian: ксилофо́н (ksilofón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

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