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English
Pronunciation
A side-blown flute (noun sense 1) .
A recorder, sometimes also called a flute (noun sense 2) .
Champagne in a classic flute (noun sense 3) .
Baguettes or flutes (noun sense 6) .
Etymology 1
From Middle English fleute , floute , flote , from Old French flaute , fleüte , from Old Provençal flaüt , of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
Doublet of flauta and fluyt .
Noun
flute (plural flutes )
( music ) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute , a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
1709 , Alexander Pope , “January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale , from Chaucer ”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope , volume I, London: W Bowyer , for Bernard Lintot , , published 1717 , →OCLC , page 217 :The breathing flute's ſoft notes are heard around, / And the ſhril trumpets mix their ſilver ſound; / The vaulted roofs vvith echoing muſic ring, / Theſe touch the vocal ſtops, and thoſe the trembling ſtring.
2008 January 15, Jon Pareles , “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in The New York Times :The group played huge drums placed overhead, along with flutes and a kotolike zither.
2018 , Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music , Yale University Press, →ISBN , page 465 :After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.
( colloquial ) A recorder , also a woodwind instrument.
A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine , especially champagne .
2018 , Sally Rooney , “Six Months Later (July 2013)”, in Normal People :These are champagne glasses, says Peggy. No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says. You're thinking of flutes , says Peggy. These are coupes.
A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column , or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit , endmill , or reamer ), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
Coordinate term: ( cutter feature ) tooth
( architecture , firearms ) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar , in plaited cloth , or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
A long French bread roll , baguette .[ 1]
An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
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Translations
woodwind instrument
Afrikaans: fluit (af)
Albanian: fyell (sq) m , flaut (sq) f , longar m
Amharic: ዋሽንት ( wašnət )
Arabic: نَاي ( nāy )
Egyptian Arabic: ناي m ( nāy ) , فلوت m ( flūt )
Moroccan Arabic: ناي m ( nāy )
Aragonese: flauta f
Armenian: ֆլեյտա (hy) ( fleyta )
Assamese: বাঁহী ( bãhi )
Asturian: flauta f
Azerbaijani: fleyta (az)
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: txirula
Belarusian: фле́йта f ( fljéjta )
Breton: fleüt (br) f
Bulgarian: фле́йта f ( fléjta )
Burmese: ပလွေ (my) ( pa.lwe )
Catalan: flauta (ca) f
Chamicuro: ajtakli
Cherokee: ᎠᏤᎷᎯᏍᏗ ( atseluhisdi )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 長笛 / 长笛 ( coeng4 dek2 ) , 笛 ( dek2 )
Mandarin: 長笛 / 长笛 (zh) ( chángdí ) , 笛 (zh) ( dí )
Czech: flétna (cs) f
Danish: fløjte (da) c
Dutch: fluit (nl) f
Esperanto: fluto
Estonian: flööt (et)
Faroese: floyta f
Finnish: huilu (fi)
French: flûte (fr) f
Friulian: flaut m
Galician: frauta (gl) f
Georgian: ფლეიტა ( pleiṭa )
German: Flöte (de) f , Querflöte (de) f
Gilbertese: te riri ni man
Greek: φλάουτο (el) n ( fláouto )
Ancient: αὐλός m ( aulós )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
Hausa: mabusa
Hebrew: חָלִיל (he) m ( khalil ) , חלילית (he) f ( khalilit )
Hindi: बाँसुरी (hi) f ( bā̃surī ) , वंशी (hi) f ( vañśī )
Hungarian: fuvola (hu) , ( recorder ) furulya (hu)
Icelandic: flauta (is) f
Ido: fluto (io)
Igbo: oja
Indonesian: suling (id)
Irish: fliúit f
Italian: flauto (it) m , piffero (it) m , zufolo (it) m , flauto traverso (it) m ( transverse flute ) , flauto di Pan m ( pan flute ) , flauto dolce (it) m ( recorder )
Japanese: フルート (ja) ( furūto ) , 笛 (ja) ( ふえ, fue )
Kannada: ಕೊಳಲು (kn) ( koḷalu )
Kazakh: сырнай ( syrnai ) , флейта ( fleita )
Khmer: ខ្លុយ (km) ( kloy )
Korean: 플루트 (ko) ( peulluteu )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bilûr (ku) f , ney (ku) f , fîq (ku) f , bilûl (ku) f
Kyrgyz: флейта (ky) ( fleyta ) , най ( nay )
Lao: ຂຸ່ຍ (lo) ( khui )
Latin: tībia f
Latvian: fleite f
Lithuanian: fleita f
Luxembourgish: Flütt f
Macedonian: флејта f ( flejta )
Malagasy: sodina (mg)
Malay: serunai , seruling (ms)
Malayalam: ഓടക്കുഴൽ (ml) ( ōṭakkuḻal )
Maltese: flawt f
Manchu: ᡶᡳᠴᠠᡴᡡ ( ficakū )
Manx: maireen
Maori: tōrino , pūtōrino , kōauau
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: лимбэ (mn) ( limbe )
Nahuatl: tlapitzalli
Navajo: tsʼisǫ́ǫ́s
Norman: fliûte f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fløyte (no) m or f
Nynorsk: fløyte f
Occitan: flaüta (oc) f , flaüita f , flèita f , floita f
Odia: ବଂଶୀ (or) ( baṁśi )
Old French: fleüte f
Pashto: فلوټ m ( flǔṭ ) , نی (ps) m ( nay ) , بغۍ f ( baǧǝ́y ) , تولۍ (ps) f ( tulǝ́y ) , دروی (ps) m ( dǝ́rway ) , سېټۍ m ( seṭáy ) , شپېلکه f ( špeláka ) , پنګی m ( pangáy ) , بين (ps) m ( bin ) , تولکه (ps) f ( tuláka ) , بوق m ( buq )
Persian: فلوت (fa) ( folut )
Polish: flet (pl) m inan
Portuguese: flauta (pt) f
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: flaut (ro) n
Romansch: flauta traversa f ( Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan ) , flöta traversa f ( Vallader ) , flauta f ( Surmiran ) , flöta f ( Puter, Vallader )
Russian: фле́йта (ru) f ( fléjta )
Salar: çör , çur
Sanskrit: पिच्छोरा (sa) f ( picchorā ) , मुरली (sa) f ( muralī )
Scots: fluit
Scottish Gaelic: cuisle-chiùil f , cuislean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фрула f , флаута f
Roman: frula (sh) f , flauta (sh) f
Sicilian: friscalettu (scn) m
Slovak: flauta f
Slovene: flavta (sl) f
Spanish: flauta (es) f , flauta travesera f
Swahili: filimbi (sw)
Swedish: flöjt (sv)
Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠁ ( bai )
Tagalog: plawta , bangsi
Tajik: най (tg) ( nay )
Tamil: புல்லாங்குழல் (ta) ( pullāṅkuḻal )
Tarifit: tamja f
Tatar: сыбызгы (tt) ( sıbızgı )
Telugu: వంశి (te) ( vaṁśi )
Thai: ฟลุต ( flút ) , ขลุ่ย (th) ( klùi )
Turkish: flüt (tr)
Turkmen: tüýdük
Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎍𐎁 ( ṯlb )
Ukrainian: фле́йта (uk) f ( fléjta )
Urdu: بانسری f ( bānsurī )
Uyghur: ئۇزۇن نەي ( uzun ney )
Uzbek: fleyta (uz)
Vietnamese: sáo (vi)
Volapük: flut (vo)
Walloon: flûte (wa) f
Welsh: ffliwt (cy) f
Yiddish: פֿלייט f ( fleyt )
glass
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Czech: please add this translation if you can
Danish: champagneglas (da) c
Dutch: fluitglas (nl) n , flûte (nl) f , champagneglas (nl) n
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: samppanjalasi (fi)
French: flûte (fr) f , flûte à champagne (fr) f
German: Schaumweinglas (de) n , Sektglas (de) n , Champagnerglas (de) n , Tulpenglas n , Kelch (de) m , Kelchglas n , Flöte (de) f
Greek: as in French
Ancient: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: כוס שמפניה
Hungarian: pezsgőspohár (hu)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: gloine ard m
Italian: flute (it) m or f , calice (it) m , flûte m or f , fluttino m , calice a tromba m
Japanese: シャンパン・グラス
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Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: champagneglass , sjampanjeglass
Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: kieliszek do szampana m
Portuguese: flute (pt) f
Russian: фуже́р (ru) m ( fužér )
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Slovene: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: copa de flauta f
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: champagneglas (sv) c
Veps: please add this translation if you can
Võro: please add this translation if you can
Votic: please add this translation if you can
helical groove going up a drill bit
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Czech: please add this translation if you can
Danish: skær
Dutch: groef (nl) f , spiraalgroef f
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ura (fi) , kierre (fi)
French: dent (fr) f
German: Furche (de) f , Nut (de) f , Riefe (de) f , Rille (de) f , Spiralnut f
Greek: σπείρα (el) f ( speíra )
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Ladino: please add this translation if you can
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Latvian: please add this translation if you can
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Norwegian:
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Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: rowek (pl) m , żłobek (pl) m
Portuguese: caneladura (pt) f , canelura (pt) f
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Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: skär (sv) n
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Votic: please add this translation if you can
architecture: vertical groove in a pillar
Albanian: hulli (sq)
Arabic: أُخْدُود m ( ʔuḵdūd )
Armenian: կանելյուր (hy) ( kanelyur )
Bulgarian: канал (bg) m ( kanal ) , жлеб (bg) m ( žleb )
Catalan: canaladura (ca) f , estria (ca) f
Czech: kanelura f
Danish: kannelure c
Dutch: cannelure (nl) f
Estonian: kannelüür
Faroese: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ura (fi)
French: cannelure (fr) f
German: Kannelierung f , Kannelüre f , Kannelur f , Kannelierung f , Nut (de) f , Rille (de) f , Riefe (de) f
Greek: αυλάκι (el) n ( avláki )
Ancient Greek: διάξυσμα n ( diáxusma )
Hebrew: חריץ m ( kharíts )
Hungarian: kannelúra
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Igbo: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: cuisle f
Italian: scanalatura (it) f
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Ladino: please add this translation if you can
Latin: stria f
Latvian: kanelūras m
Lithuanian: kaneliūra f
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kanellyre f
Nynorsk: kanellure f
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: kanela (pl) f , kanelura (pl) f
Portuguese: canelura (pt) f , ranhura (pt) f
Romanian: canelură (ro) f
Russian: каннелю́ра (ru) f ( kanneljúra ) , канелю́ра (ru) f ( kaneljúra )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: канелура f
Roman: kanelura f
Slovak: kanelúra f
Slovene: kanelura f
Spanish: acanaladura (es) f , estría (es) f
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: kannelyr (sv) c
Turkish: oluk (tr) , yiv (tr)
Ukrainian: канелю́ра f ( kaneljúra )
Veps: please add this translation if you can
Võro: please add this translation if you can
Votic: please add this translation if you can
References
^ 1858 , Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products
Verb
fluted pillars
flute (third-person singular simple present flutes , present participle fluting , simple past and past participle fluted )
( intransitive ) To play on a flute .
( intransitive ) To make a flutelike sound.
1895 , S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water :The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
( transitive ) To utter with a flutelike sound.
1960 , P G Wodehouse , chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing , London: Herbert Jenkins , →OCLC :“Oh, there's my precious Poppet,” said Phyllis, as a distant barking reached the ears. “He's asking for his dinner, the sweet little angel. All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted , and buzzed off on the errand of mercy.
( transitive ) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
Translations
to make a flutelike sound
to utter with flutelike sound
Etymology 2
Compare French flûte ( “ a transport ” ) ?, Dutch fluit .
Noun
flute (plural flutes )
A kind of flyboat ; a storeship .
Further reading
flute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Flute in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
“flute ”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016 , →ISBN .
“flute ”, in Collins English Dictionary .
William Dwight Whitney , Benjamin E Smith , editors (1911 ), “flute ”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , →OCLC , page 2290 .
“flute ”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged , Dictionary.com, LLC , 1995–present.
“flute ”, in Lexico , Dictionary.com ; Oxford University Press , 2019–2022 .
“flute ”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster , 1996–present.
“flute ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Douglas Harper (2001–2025 ) “flute ”, in Online Etymology Dictionary .
French
Pronunciation
Noun
flute f (plural flutes )
Post-1990 spelling of flûte
Further reading
German
Verb
flute
inflection of fluten :
first-person singular present
first / third-person singular subjunctive I
singular imperative
Italian
Etymology
From flûte , from French flûte , from Old French fleüte , from Old Occitan flaut .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈflut/
Rhymes: -ut
Hyphenation: flùte
Noun
flute m (invariable )
flute ( type of glass )
Synonyms: flûte , fluttino