clarinet

English

Clarinets.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian clarinetto, diminutive of clarino (“trumpet”) (as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet), from Latin clarus.

Alternatively, the word may come from French clarinette, diminutive form of clarine (“bell”), from clarin, from clair (“clear”), from Latin clarus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌklæɹɪˈnɛt/, /ˌklɛɹɪˈnɛt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

clarinet (plural clarinets)

1. (music) A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

   Synonym: agony-pipe

Derived terms

• alto clarinet
• bass clarinet
• basset clarinet
• clarinetist
• contrabass clarinet
• soprano clarinet

 

Translations

woodwind musical instrument

• Afrikaans: klarinet
• Albanian: klarinetë (sq) f, gërnetë (sq) f
• Arabic: كْلَارِينِيت m (klārīnīt)
• Aragonese: clarinet m
• Armenian: կլարնետ (hy) (klarnet)
• Asturian: clarinete m
• Azerbaijani: klarnet
• Basque: klarinete
• Belarusian: кларне́т m (klarnjét)
• Bengali: ক্ল্যারিওনেট (klêriōneṭ)
• Breton: klarinetenn f
• Bulgarian: кларинет m (klarinet)
• Burmese: ကလယ်ရီနက် (ka.lairinak), ကလဲရီနက် (ka.lai:rinak)
• Catalan: clarinet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 單簧管／单簧管 (daan¹ wong⁴ gun²)

  Hokkien: 烏笛仔／乌笛仔 (zh-min-nan) (o͘-ta̍t-á)

  Mandarin: 單簧管／单簧管 (zh) (dānhuángguǎn), 豎笛／竖笛 (zh) (shùdí), 黑管 (zh) (hēiguǎn)

• Czech: klarinet (cs) m
• Danish: klarinet (da) c
• Dutch: klarinet (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: klarneto
• Estonian: klarnet
• Faroese: klarinett f
• Finnish: klarinetti (fi)
• French: clarinette (fr) f
• Friulian: clarinet m
• Galician: clarinete (gl) m
• Georgian: კლარნეტი (ḳlarneṭi)
• German: Klarinette (de) f
• Greek: κλαρινέτο (el) n (klarinéto)
• Hebrew: קְלַרְנִית (he) f (klarniet)
• Hindi: शहनाई (hi) f (śahnāī)
• Hungarian: klarinét (hu)
• Icelandic: klarínetta f, klarínett n
• Indonesian: klarinet (id)
• Irish: clairnéid f
• Italian: clarinetto (it) m
• Japanese: クラリネット (ja) (kurarinetto)
• Kalmyk: биив (biiv)
• Kazakh: кларнет (klarnet)
• Korean: 클라리넷 (ko) (keullarinet)
• Kyrgyz: кларнет (klarnet)
• Ladino: zurna
• Latin: clarinetum n
• Latvian: klarnete f
• Ligurian: clarinétto m
• Lithuanian: klarnetas m
• Lombard: clarinètt m
• Macedonian: кларинет m (klarinet)
• Malay: klarinet (ms)
• Maltese: klarinett m
• Maori: pūtahoro, rehu matangi
• Mongolian: кларнет (mn) (klarnet)

  Mongolian: ᠻᠯᠠᠷᠨᠧᠲ᠋ (klarnēt)

• Norman: clairinnette f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klarinett m

  Nynorsk: klarinett m

• Persian: کلارینت (fa) (kelârinet)
• Piedmontese: clarinèt m
• Polish: klarnet (pl) m
• Portuguese: clarinete (pt) m
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: clarinet (ro) n, clarinetă (ro) f
• Russian: кларне́т (ru) m (klarnét)
• Scottish Gaelic: clàirneid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кларѝне̄т m

  Roman: klarìnēt (sh) m

• Slovak: klarinet m
• Slovene: klarinet (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: klarineta f

• Spanish: clarinete (es) m
• Swahili: nzumari
• Swedish: klarinett (sv) c
• Tagalog: klarinete
• Tajik: кларнет (klarnet)
• Thai: คลาริเน็ต (klaa-rí-nèt)
• Turkish: klarnet (tr)
• Turkmen: klarnet
• Ukrainian: кларне́т (uk) m (klarnét)
• Uyghur: كلارىنېت (klarinët)
• Uzbek: klarnet (uz)
• Vietnamese: (kèn) cla-ri-nét
• Volapük: klarinät (vo)
• Welsh: clarinét m
• Yiddish: קלאַרנעט m (klarnet)

See also

• chalumeau

Further reading

• Clarinet
• Clarion

Anagrams

• INTERCAL, litracen

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian clarinetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [klə.ɾiˈnɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [klə.ɾiˈnət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kla.ɾiˈnet]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

clarinet m (plural clarinets)

1. clarinet

Derived terms

• clarinetista

Further reading

• “clarinet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Friulian

Noun

clarinet m (plural clarinets)

1. clarinet

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French clarinette or German Klarinette.

Noun

clarinet n (plural clarinete)

1. (music) clarinet

   Synonym: clarinetă

Declension

Declension of clarinet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) clarinet	clarinetul	(niște) clarinete	clarinetele
genitive/dative	(unui) clarinet	clarinetului	(unor) clarinete	clarinetelor
vocative	clarinetule		clarinetelor