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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (UK): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
Audio (US): (file) - (Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/
- Hyphenation: gui‧tar
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ), -ɑː
Noun
[edit]guitar (plural guitars)
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
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[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- acoustic guitar
- air guitar
- armónico guitar
- banjitar
- baritone guitar
- Baroque guitar
- bass guitar
- bottleneck guitar
- bowed guitar
- cigar-box guitar
- cigar box guitar
- classical guitar
- console steel guitar
- contraguitar
- eight-string guitar
- electric guitar
- flamenco guitar
- four-string guitar
- guitar cello
- guitar-cello
- guitar fiddle
- guitarfish
- guitar hero
- guitarist
- guitar pick
- guitar-player
- guitar pop
- guitjo
- harp-guitar
- harp guitar
- Hawaiian guitar
- lap steel guitar
- lead guitar
- lute-guitar
- lute guitar
- lyre-guitar
- moon guitar
- nylon-string guitar
- parlor guitar, parlour guitar
- pedal steel guitar
- Portuguese guitar
- resonator guitar
- rhythm guitar
- romantic guitar
- Russian guitar
- Schrammel guitar
- Selmer guitar
- seven-string guitar
- slide guitar
- Spanish guitar
- steel guitar
- steel-string guitar
- steel string guitar
- table steel guitar
- tenor guitar
- twelve-stringed guitar
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]musical instrument
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References
[edit]- 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.
Verb
[edit]guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)
- (informal) To play the guitar.
- 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:
- We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.
See also
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[edit]Catalan
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[edit]Verb
[edit]guitar (first-person singular present guito, first-person singular preterite guití, past participle guitat)
- (intransitive) to kick, to buck (of horses and mules)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of guitar (first conjugation)
| infinitive | guitar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | guitant | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | guitat | guitada | |||||
| plural | guitats | guitades | |||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | guito | guites | guita | guitem | guiteu | guiten | |
| imperfect | guitava | guitaves | guitava | guitàvem | guitàveu | guitaven | |
| future | guitaré | guitaràs | guitarà | guitarem | guitareu | guitaran | |
| preterite | guití | guitares | guità | guitàrem | guitàreu | guitaren | |
| conditional | guitaria | guitaries | guitaria | guitaríem | guitaríeu | guitarien | |
| subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
| present | guiti | guitis | guiti | guitem | guiteu | guitin | |
| imperfect | guités | guitessis | guités | guitéssim | guitéssiu | guitessin | |
| imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
| affirmative | — | guita | guiti | guitem | guiteu | guitin | |
| negative (no) | — | no guitis | no guiti | no guitem | no guiteu | no guitin | |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “guitar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of guitar
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | guitar | guitaren | guitarer | guitarerne |
| genitive | guitars | guitarens | guitarers | guitarernes |
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