harpe

From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē).

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.

From Middle English harpe.

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp.

• Phrae, hepar, phare, raphe

From Old Danish harpæ, from Old Norse harpa (“harp”), from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Norwegian Bokmål harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

• IPA^(key): /harpə/, [ˈhɑːb̥ə]

harpe c (singular definite harpen, plural indefinite harper)

1. (music) harp

• “harpe” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁp/

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harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (music) harp (musical instrument)

• harpiste

harpe

1. inflection of harper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• phare

From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon, scimitar”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhar.peː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.pe]

harpē f (genitive harpēs); first declension

1. a curved sickle-shaped sword, scimitar
2. bird of prey, hawk, falcon, tiercel or goshawk (falco gentilis)

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• Catalan: arpa
• Italian: arpa
• Occitan: arpa
• Sicilian: arpa

• “harpe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “harpe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

harpe f

1. harp, lyre

• Dutch: harp

• “harpe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “harpe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• harp

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (music) harp

• English: harp

From Old French harpe, from Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (Jersey) harp

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare with Danish harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

harpe f or m (definite singular harpa or harpen, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

1. (music) a harp

• harpeleik

• “harpe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• hørpe (dialectal)

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːrpe/

harpe f (definite singular harpa, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

1. (music) harp

• harpeleik
• munnharpe
• taglharpe

• “harpe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Frankish *harpō, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɾpə/

harpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural harpes, nominative singular harpe, nominative plural harpes)

1. harp

• harper
• harpere

• Middle French: harpe
  • French: harpe
    • → Romanian: harpă
• Norman: harpe (Jersiais)
• Picard: hârpe (Athois)
• Walloon: ârpe (Forrières)

• IPA^(key): [ˈhar.pe]

harpe f pl

1. plural of harpă

Borrowed from French harpe

• IPA^(key): /haʀp/

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (music) harp