guitar

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/

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  • (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/
• Hyphenation: gui‧tar
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

guitar (plural guitars)

2. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

   Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.

   She was carrying her guitar in a fancily-decorated case.

   The band is looking for a new guitar player.

3. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

• chordophone
• stringed instrument

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (informal) To play the guitar.
   • 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:

     We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

• Ugarit

From guit +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡiˈtaɾ]

guitar (first-person singular present guito, first-person singular preterite guití, past participle guitat)

1. (intransitive) to kick, to buck (of horses and mules)

• guitza

• “guitar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /ɡitar/, [ˈɡ̊itˢɑːˀ]

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣi˧˧ taː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɣɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ghi ta

guitar

1. alternative spelling of ghi-ta (“guitar”)