English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cor anglais (literally “English horn”), calqued from a misunderstanding of Middle High German engellisches horn (“angelic horn”), from the resemblance of the instrument to horns played by angels as depicted in the Middle Ages.
Pronunciation
Noun
cor anglais (plural cors anglais)
- (music) A double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family that is pitched in F, one-fifth lower than the oboe and is consequently approximately one-third longer than the oboe.
Synonyms
Translations
woodwind instrument
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: անգլիական եղջերափող (angliakan eġǰerapʻoġ)
- Basque: adar ingeles
- Belarusian: англі́йскі ражо́к m (anhlíjski ražók)
- Bengali: ইংলিশ হর্ন (iṅliś horno)
- Catalan: corn anglès (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 英國管 / 英国管 (zh) (Yīngguó guǎn)
- Czech: anglický roh m
- Danish: engelskhorn n
- Dutch: Engelse hoorn (nl) m or f, althobo (nl) m
- Esperanto: angla korno
- Estonian: inglissarv, altoboe
- Finnish: englannintorvi (fi)
- French: cor anglais (fr) m
- Galician: corno inglés (gl) m
- German: Englischhorn (de) n
- Greek: αγγλικό κόρνο (el) n (anglikó kórno), κορ ανγκλέ n (kor angklé)
- Hebrew: קֶרֶן אַנְגְּלִית f (qɛrɛn ʾangəlīṯ)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: angolkürt (hu)
- Icelandic: enskt horn n, englahorn n
- Interlingua: corno anglese
- Irish: corn Sasanach m
- Italian: corno inglese (it) m
- Japanese: コーラングレ (ja) (kōrangure), コールアングレ (kōru angure), イングリッシュホルン (ja) (ingurisshu horun), アルトオーボエ (aruto ōboe)
- Korean: 잉글리시 호른 (inggeullisi horeun)
- Latvian: angļu rags m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: engelsk horn n, alt-obo m
- Nynorsk: engelsk horn n
- Persian: کر آنگله (kor angle), کرآنگله (korangle)
- Polish: rożek angielski m
- Portuguese: corne inglês m, corno inglês m
- Quechua: Inlish pinkuyllu
- Romanian: corn englez (ro) n
- Russian: англи́йский рожо́к (ru) m (anglíjskij rožók)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ѐнгле̄скӣ ро̑г m
- Roman: ènglēskī rȏg m
- Slovak: anglický roh m
- Slovene: anglẹ̑ški rọ̑g m
- Spanish: corno inglés m
- Swahili: baragumu ya kiingereza
- Swedish: engelskt horn (sv) n
- Thai: คอร์ แองเกลส์ (kɔɔ ɛɛng glee)
- Turkish: İngiliz kornosu, kor angle
- Ukrainian: англі́йський ріжо́к m (anhlíjsʹkyj rižók)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- West Frisian: althobo, Ingelske hoarn
- Yiddish: ענגלישער האָרן (englisher horn)
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French
Etymology
Calque of Middle High German engellisches horn (“angelic horn”), by misunderstanding.
Pronunciation
Noun
cor anglais m (plural cors anglais)
- (music) cor anglais, English horn
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