harpe

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See also: Harpe, harpé, and harpë

English

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Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē).

Noun

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.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English harpe.

Noun

harpe (plural harpes)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp

Anagrams

Danish

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

harpe c (singular definite harpen, plural indefinite harper)

  1. (music) harp

Declension

References

French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

harpe f (plural harpes)

  1. (music) harp (musical instrument)

Derived terms

Verb

harpe

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

harpē f (genitive harpēs); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative harpē harpae
Genitive harpēs harpārum
Dative harpae harpīs
Accusative harpēn harpās
Ablative harpē harpīs
Vocative harpē harpae

Descendants

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

References

  • 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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

harpe f

  1. harp, lyre

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Noun

harpe (plural harpes)

  1. (music) harp

Descendants

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

harpe f (plural harpes)

  1. (Jersey) harp

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. (music) a harp

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. (music) harp

Derived terms

References

Old French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. harp

Descendants

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

harpe f pl

  1. plural of harpă

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowed from French harpe

Pronunciation

Noun

harpe f (plural harpes)

  1. (music) harp