strum

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See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb

strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

Examples
The sound of a ukelele being strummed(file)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

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Translations

Noun

strum (plural strums)

  1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
    hear the strum of a guitar
  2. The act of strumming.
    give the banjo a little strum

Derived terms

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Slav.

Noun

strum m (definite strumi)

  1. pool

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “strum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 404

Further reading

  • “strum”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • “strum”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
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