guitarra

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

  1. guitar

Catalan

Etymology

    Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítara and cistre.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈta.rə]
    • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ɡiˈta.ra]
    • Audio (Catalonia):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ara

    Noun

    guitarra f (plural guitarres)

    1. guitar

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Galician

    Etymology

      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara and cítola.

      Pronunciation

       
      • IPA(key): (standard) /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]
      • IPA(key): (gheada) /ħiˈtara/ [ħiˈt̪a.rɐ]

      • Rhymes: -ara
      • Hyphenation: gui‧ta‧rra

      Noun

      guitarra f (plural guitarras)

      1. (music) guitar

      Derived terms

      Noun

      guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

      1. guitarist
        Synonym: guitarrista

      Further reading

      Interlingua

      Noun

      guitarra (plural guitarras)

      1. guitar

      Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec

      Etymology

        Borrowed from Spanish guitarra.

        Noun

        guitarra

        1. guitar
          Synonym: yutnu tée yaa

        References

        • Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)‎[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 30–31

        Old Galician-Portuguese

        Etymology

          Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra).

          Noun

          guitarra f (plural *guitarras)

          1. (music, hapax legomenon) classical guitar

          Descendants

          • Fala: guitarra
          • Galician: guitarra
          • Portuguese: guitarra

          References

          Old Spanish

          Alternative forms

          • guitara

          Etymology

            Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cedra.

            Noun

            guitarra f (plural guitarras)

            1. (music) classical guitar
              • 1376c. 1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, “De la informacion, insstruccion ho establimiento et començamiento de religion” (chapter 76), in [Rams de Flores o Libro de Actoridades], page 164c; republished as Conrado Guardiola Alcover, editor, Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1998, →ISBN, pages 222–223:
                Aurás por encuentro la companya de los proffectas deuallantes de la altura, et delant ellos es el salterio et la viola et la guitarra et la rabeua
                (please add an English translation of this quotation)

            Descendants

            References

            • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “guitarra”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 284

            Portuguese

            Etymology

              Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cistre.

              Pronunciation

               
              • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]
                • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.χɐ]
                • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁa/ [ɡiˈta.ha]

              • Rhymes: -aʁɐ
              • Hyphenation: gui‧tar‧ra

              Noun

              guitarra f (plural guitarras) (music)

              1. classical guitar
                Synonyms: guitarra clássica, (Brazil) violão
              2. electric guitar
                Synonym: guitarra elétrica

              Descendants

              • Konkani: गितार (gitār)

              Romansch

              Alternative forms

              Noun

              guitarra f (plural guitarras)

              1. (music, Puter, Vallader) guitar

              Derived terms

              Spanish

              Etymology

                Inherited from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cedra.

                Pronunciation

                • IPA(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]
                • Audio (Colombia):(file)
                • Rhymes: -ara
                • Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

                Noun

                guitarra f (plural guitarras)

                1. guitar
                2. guitarfish

                Derived terms

                Descendants

                Noun

                guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

                1. guitarist
                  Synonym: guitarrista

                Further reading