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English
Etymology
From Middle English symphonye, from Old French simphonie, from Latin symphonia, from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). By surface analysis, sym- + -phony. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and zampogna.
Pronunciation
Noun
symphony (countable and uncountable, plural symphonies)
- An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.
- (music) An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.
- Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.
- (US, informal) A symphony orchestra.
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Translations
piece of orchestral music
- Albanian: simfoni (sq) f
- Arabic: سِيمْفُونِيَّة f (sīmfūniyya), سِيمْفُونِي m (sīmfūnī)
- Armenian: սիմֆոնիա (hy) (simfonia), համանուագ (hamanuag) (Western Armenian)
- Azerbaijani: simfoniya
- Belarusian: сімфо́нія f (simfónija)
- Bengali: সিম্ফনি (bn) (śimphoni)
- Bulgarian: симфо́ния (bg) f (simfónija)
- Burmese: ဆင်ဖိုနီ (hcanghpuini)
- Catalan: simfonia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (gaau1 hoeng2 kuk1)
- Hokkien: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (zh-min-nan) (kau-hiáng-khek)
- Mandarin: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (zh) (jiāoxiǎngqǔ)
- Czech: symfonie (cs) f
- Danish: symfoni c
- Dutch: symfonie (nl) f
- Esperanto: simfonio
- Estonian: sümfoonia
- Farefare: simfonia
- Finnish: sinfonia (fi)
- French: symphonie (fr) f
- Friulian: sinfonie f
- Georgian: სიმფონია (simponia)
- German: Sinfonie (de) f, Symphonie (de) f
- Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía)
- Hebrew: סִימפוֹנִיָה (he) f (simfónya)
- Hindi: सिंफ़नी f (sĩfanī), सिम्फ़नी f (simfanī), स्वर की समता m (svar kī samtā)
- Hungarian: szimfónia (hu)
- Icelandic: sinfónía f
- Irish: siansa m
- Italian: sinfonia (it) f
- Japanese: 交響曲 (ja) (こうきょうきょく, kōkyōkyoku)
- Kazakh: симфония (simfoniä)
- Khmer: ស៊ីមហ្វូនី (siimfounii)
- Korean: 교향곡(交響曲) (ko) (gyohyanggok), 심포니 (ko) (simponi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: senfonî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: симфония (ky) (simfoniya)
- Ladin: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: simfonija f, simfōnija f (obsolete spelling)
- Lithuanian: simfonija f
- Macedonian: симфонија f (simfonija)
- Malay: simfoni
- Maori: puoro tuatini
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: симфони (mn) (simfoni)
- Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠮᠹᠣᠨᠢ (simfoni)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: symfoni m
- Nynorsk: symfoni m
- Pashto: سمفوني f (samfoni), سيمفوني f (simfoni)
- Persian: سمفونی (fa) (samfoni)
- Piedmontese: sinfonìa f
- Polish: symfonia (pl) f
- Portuguese: sinfonia (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸਿੰਫਨੀ (simphnī)
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: simfonie (ro) f
- Russian: симфо́ния (ru) f (simfónija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сѝмфо̄нија f
- Roman: sìmfōnija (sh) f
- Slovak: symfónia f
- Slovene: simfonija f
- Spanish: sinfonía (es) f
- Swedish: symfoni (sv) c
- Tajik: симфония (simfoniya)
- Tatar: симфония (simfoniyä)
- Thai: ซิมโฟนี (sim-foo-nîi)
- Turkish: senfoni (tr)
- Turkmen: simfoniýa
- Ukrainian: симфо́нія (uk) f (symfónija)
- Urdu: ہَم نَوائی (ham-navāī), سِمْفَنی f (simfanī)
- Uyghur: سىمفونىيە (simfoniye)
- Uzbek: simfoniya (uz)
- Vietnamese: giao hưởng (vi) (交響)
- Volapük: sümfon, kobolestukot, (children) cilasümfon
- Welsh: symffoni f
- Yiddish: סימפֿאָניע f (simfonye)
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