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English

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violin

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Medieval Latin *vitulader.

Old Occitan violabor.?

Italian viola

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Italian -ino

Italian violinoder.

English violin

Derived from Italian violino (“little viola”), from viola + -ino (forming dimunitives).

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪ.əˈlɪn/Category:English 3-syllable words#VIOLINCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VIOLIN
- Audio (General American): (file)
  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VIOLIN
(Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈʋaɪᵊ.lɪn/Category:English 2-syllable words#VIOLIN Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VIOLIN
(Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /ˌvaɪ.oʊˈlin/, [ˌwaʊˈlin]Category:English 3-syllable words#VIOLIN Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VIOLIN
Rhymes: -ɪn Category:Rhymes:English/ɪn#VIOLIN Category:Rhymes:English/ɪn/3 syllables#VIOLIN

Noun

violin (plural violins)Category:English lemmas#VIOLIN Category:English nouns#VIOLIN Category:English countable nouns#VIOLIN Category:English entries with incorrect language header#VIOLIN Category:Pages with entries#VIOLIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#VIOLIN

(music Category:en:String instruments#VIOLIN) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.
Category:English terms with usage examples#VIOLIN
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
  She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
  Category:English terms with quotations#VIOLIN
(inexact, sometimes proscribed Category:English proscribed terms#VIOLIN) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
The string quartet, one of the most popular groupings in chamber music, is composed entirely of violins: two violins proper, one viola, and one cello.Category:English terms with usage examples#VIOLIN
(music Category:en:Musicians#VIOLIN, metonymic Category:English metonyms#VIOLIN) A violinist in an orchestra or group.
The violins are seated with sufficient elbow room.Category:English terms with usage examples#VIOLIN

She is first violin in the London Symphony Orchestra.Category:English terms with usage examples#VIOLIN

Usage notes

The distinction between violins and fiddles is typically contextual and cultural. The same instrument is considered a violin when playing classical music in formal settings, a fiddle when playing folk or country music, and variously described in other settings (such as jazz and rock) depending whichever term seems more appropriate to the speaker.

Synonyms

fiddle (see above), crowd (obsolete or dialectical)

Related terms

Descendants

→ Japanese: バイオリン (baiorin)
→ Korean: 바이올린 (baiollin)

Translations

string instrument

Category:Entries with translation boxes#VIOLIN

Afrikaans: viool (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#VIOLIN
Albanian: violinë (sq) fCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#VIOLIN
Amharic: ቫዮሊን (vayolin)Category:Terms with Amharic translations#VIOLIN, ማሲንቆ (am) (masinḳo)Category:Terms with Amharic translations#VIOLIN
Arabic: كَمَان (ar) m (kamān)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#VIOLIN
Egyptian Arabic: كمنجه (kamunajih)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#VIOLIN

Moroccan Arabic: كمنجة f (kamanja)Category:Terms with Moroccan Arabic translations#VIOLIN
Armenian: ջութակ (hy) (ǰutʻak)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#VIOLIN, քեման (hy) (kʻeman)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#VIOLIN
Assamese: বেহেলা (behela)Category:Terms with Assamese translations#VIOLIN
Asturian: violín mCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#VIOLIN
Azerbaijani: skripka (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#VIOLIN
Basque: biolinCategory:Terms with Basque translations#VIOLIN
Belarusian: скры́пка f (skrýpka)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#VIOLIN
Bengali: বেহালা (bn) (behala)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#VIOLIN
Breton: violoñs mCategory:Terms with Breton translations#VIOLIN
Bulgarian: цигу́лка (bg) f (cigúlka)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#VIOLIN
Burmese: တယော (my) (ta.yau:)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#VIOLIN
Catalan: violí (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#VIOLIN
Chinese:
Cantonese: 小提琴 (siu² tai⁴ kam⁴)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#VIOLIN

Mandarin: 小提琴 (zh) (xiǎotíqín)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#VIOLIN, 梵啞鈴 / 梵哑铃 (zh) (fànyǎlíng)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#VIOLIN
Choctaw: ahlepushiCategory:Terms with Choctaw translations#VIOLIN
Cornish: fyll mCategory:Terms with Cornish translations#VIOLIN
Corsican: viulinu mCategory:Terms with Corsican translations#VIOLIN
Crimean Tatar: kemaneCategory:Terms with Crimean Tatar translations#VIOLIN
Czech: housle (cs) f plCategory:Terms with Czech translations#VIOLIN
Danish: violin (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#VIOLIN
Dutch: viool (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#VIOLIN, vedel (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#VIOLIN
Dzongkha: པི་ཝང (pi wang)Category:Terms with Dzongkha translations#VIOLIN
Emilian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Emilian#VIOLIN
Erzya: кайга (kajga)Category:Terms with Erzya translations#VIOLIN
Esperanto: violonoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#VIOLIN
Estonian: viiul (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#VIOLIN
Faroese: violin fCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#VIOLIN, fiól fCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#VIOLIN
Finnish: viulu (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#VIOLIN
French: violon (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#VIOLIN (formal), crincrin (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#VIOLIN (informal)
Frisian:
West Frisian: fioeleCategory:Terms with West Frisian translations#VIOLIN
Friulian: violin mCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#VIOLIN
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤽𞤢𞥄𞤽𞤮𞥅𞤪𞤵Category:Terms with Fula translations#VIOLIN

Latin: ñaañooruCategory:Terms with Fula translations#VIOLIN
Galician: violín (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#VIOLIN
Georgian: ვიოლინო (violino)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#VIOLIN
German: Geige (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#VIOLIN (normal), Violine (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#VIOLIN (technical, formal), Fidel (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#VIOLIN, Fiedel (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#VIOLIN (informal)
Alemannic German: Guege fCategory:Terms with Alemannic German translations#VIOLIN
Greek: βιολί (el) n (violí)Category:Terms with Greek translations#VIOLIN
Greenlandic: agiaqCategory:Terms with Greenlandic translations#VIOLIN
Hawaiian: pilaCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#VIOLIN, waiolinaCategory:Terms with Hawaiian translations#VIOLIN
Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר / כינור (he) m (kinór)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#VIOLIN
Hindi: वायलिन f (vāylin)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#VIOLIN, बेला (hi) m (belā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#VIOLIN, सारंगी (hi) f (sāraṅgī)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#VIOLIN
Hungarian: hegedű (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#VIOLIN
Icelandic: fiðla (is) fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#VIOLIN
Ido: violino (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#VIOLIN
Indonesian: biola (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#VIOLIN
Irish: veidhlín mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#VIOLIN, veidheal fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#VIOLIN, fidil fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#VIOLIN
Italian: violino (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#VIOLIN
Japanese: バイオリン (ja) (baiorin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#VIOLIN, 小提琴 (ja) (Koteikin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#VIOLIN, 提琴 (ja) (teikin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#VIOLIN, フィドル (fidoru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#VIOLIN
Kabuverdianu: rabékaCategory:Terms with Kabuverdianu translations#VIOLIN
Kalmyk: хур (xur)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#VIOLIN
Kannada: ಪಿಟೀಲು (piṭīlu)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#VIOLIN
Kazakh: скрипка (skripka)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#VIOLIN
Khmer: វីយោឡុង (viiyoulong)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#VIOLIN
Korean: 바이올린 (ko) (baiollin)Category:Terms with Korean translations#VIOLIN
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: keman (ku) fCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#VIOLIN, kemançe (ku) fCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#VIOLIN, viyolîn (ku) fCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#VIOLIN
Kyrgyz: скрипка (ky) (skripka)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#VIOLIN
Ladin: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Ladin#VIOLIN
Lao: ຊຶງ (sưng)Category:Terms with Lao translations#VIOLIN, ຊຸງ (sung)Category:Terms with Lao translations#VIOLIN, ຊໍ (sǭ)Category:Terms with Lao translations#VIOLIN
Latin: (Modern Latin) violinumCategory:Terms with Latin translations#VIOLIN
Latvian: vijole fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#VIOLIN, smuika fCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#VIOLIN (outdated)
Ligurian: violin mCategory:Terms with Ligurian translations#VIOLIN
Lithuanian: smuikas mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#VIOLIN
Lombard: viorin (lmo) mCategory:Terms with Lombard translations#VIOLIN
Low German:
German Low German: Vigelien fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Low German translations#VIOLIN, Fiedel fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Low German translations#VIOLIN (popular), Fiddel fCategory:Terms with German Low German translations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Low German translations#VIOLIN (popular)
Macedonian: виоли́на (mk) f (violína)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#VIOLIN, гу́сла f (gúsla)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#VIOLIN
Malay: biola (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#VIOLIN
Maltese: vjolin mCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#VIOLIN
Manx: biol mCategory:Terms with Manx translations#VIOLIN
Māori: whiraCategory:Terms with Māori translations#VIOLIN
Marathi: वायोलिन f (vāyolin)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#VIOLIN
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хийл хөгжим (xiil xögžim)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#VIOLIN, хийл (mn) (xiil)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#VIOLIN, бага эрүү хуур (baga erüü xuur)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#VIOLIN (China)

Mongolian script: ᠬᠢᠭᠢᠯᠢ
ᠬᠥᠭᠵᠢᠮ (kigili köɣǰim)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#VIOLIN, ᠬᠢᠭᠢᠯᠢ (kigili)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#VIOLIN, ᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ
ᠡᠷᠡᠦ
ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (bag-a ereü quɣur)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#VIOLIN
Neapolitan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Neapolitan#VIOLIN
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fiolin (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#VIOLIN, fele m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#VIOLIN

Nynorsk: fiolin mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#VIOLIN, fele fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#VIOLIN
Nǀuu: fijoolsiCategory:Terms with Nǀuu translations#VIOLIN
Occitan: violon (oc) mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#VIOLIN
Persian:
Iranian Persian: وِیولُن (viyolon)Category:Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Persian translations#VIOLIN, ^{(please verify)} غِژَک (ġežak)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#VIOLIN Category:Terms with Persian translations#VIOLIN Category:Requests for review of Iranian Persian translations#VIOLIN
Piedmontese: violin mCategory:Terms with Piedmontese translations#VIOLIN
Polish: skrzypce (pl) plCategory:Terms with Polish translations#VIOLIN
Portuguese: violino (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#VIOLIN, rabeca (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#VIOLIN
Punjabi: ਵਾਇਲਿਨ (pa) f (vāilin)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#VIOLIN
Quechua: wiyulinCategory:Terms with Quechua translations#VIOLIN
Romagnol: viulén mCategory:Terms with Romagnol translations#VIOLIN
Romanian: vioară (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#VIOLIN
Romansh: gìa fCategory:Terms with Romansh translations#VIOLIN, violina fCategory:Terms with Romansh translations#VIOLIN
Russian: скри́пка (ru) f (skrípka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#VIOLIN
Samoan: vaioliniCategory:Terms with Samoan translations#VIOLIN
Scottish Gaelic: fidheall fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#VIOLIN
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: виоли́на fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#VIOLIN

Latin: violína (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#VIOLIN
Slovak: husle (sk) f plCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#VIOLIN
Slovene: violina (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#VIOLIN
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wiolina fCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#VIOLIN (formal), fidle plCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#VIOLIN (informal)
Southern Altai: скрипка (skripka)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#VIOLIN
Spanish: violín (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#VIOLIN
Sranan Tongo: finyoroCategory:Terms with Sranan Tongo translations#VIOLIN
Swahili: fidlaCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#VIOLIN
Swedish: fiol (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#VIOLIN, violin (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#VIOLIN
Tagalog: biyolinCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#VIOLIN, magbiyolinCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#VIOLIN
Tajik: скрипка (skripka)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#VIOLIN, ғиҷҷак (ġijjak)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#VIOLIN, камонча (kamonča)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#VIOLIN
Tamil: வயலின் (ta) (vayaliṉ)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#VIOLIN
Tatar: скрипка (skripqa)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#VIOLIN
Telugu: వాయులీనము (te) (vāyulīnamu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#VIOLIN, ఫిడేలు (te) (phiḍēlu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#VIOLIN
Thai: ไวโอลิน (th) (wai-oo-lin)Category:Terms with Thai translations#VIOLIN
Turkish: keman (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#VIOLIN
Ottoman Turkish: كمان (keman)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#VIOLIN
Turkmen: skripkaCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#VIOLIN
Ukrainian: скри́пка (uk) f (skrýpka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#VIOLIN
Urdu: سارَن٘گی f (sāraṅgī)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#VIOLIN, بیلا m (belā)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#VIOLIN, وایْلِن f (vāylin)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#VIOLIN
Uyghur: ئىسكىرىپكا (iskiripka)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#VIOLIN
Uzbek: skripka (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#VIOLIN
Venetan: violìn mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#VIOLIN
Vietnamese: vĩ cầm (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#VIOLIN (尾琴Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#VIOLIN)
Volapük: viäl (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#VIOLIN
Walloon: violon (wa) mCategory:Terms with Walloon translations#VIOLIN
Waray-Waray: biyolinCategory:Terms with Waray-Waray translations#VIOLIN
Welsh: feiolin fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#VIOLIN (formal), ffidil fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#VIOLIN (informal)
Yiddish: פֿידל m (fidl)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#VIOLIN
Zhuang: siuj dizginzCategory:Terms with Zhuang translations#VIOLIN
Zulu: ivayoliniCategory:Terms with Zulu translations#VIOLIN

Verb

violin (third-person singular simple present violins, present participle violining, simple past and past participle violined)Category:English lemmas#VIOLIN Category:English verbs#VIOLIN Category:English entries with incorrect language header#VIOLIN Category:Pages with entries#VIOLIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#VIOLIN

(ambitransitive Category:English transitive verbs#VIOLIN Category:English intransitive verbs#VIOLIN) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

Anagrams

olivin

Catalan

Verb

violinCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#VIOLIN Category:Catalan verb forms#VIOLIN Category:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#VIOLIN Category:Pages with entries#VIOLIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#VIOLIN

inflection of violar:
1. third-person plural present subjunctive
2. third-person plural imperative

Danish

Declension

Declension of *violin*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	violin	violinen	violiner	violinerne
genitive	violins	violinens	violiners	violinernes

References

“violin” in Den Danske Ordbog
“violin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vjuˈliŋ/Category:Piedmontese terms with IPA pronunciation#VIOLIN

Noun

violin m (plural violin)Category:Piedmontese lemmas#VIOLIN Category:Piedmontese nouns#VIOLIN Category:Piedmontese entries with incorrect language header#VIOLIN Category:Piedmontese masculine nouns#VIOLIN Category:Pages with entries#VIOLIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#VIOLIN

violin

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

violin

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

violin cCategory:Swedish lemmas#VIOLIN Category:Swedish nouns#VIOLIN Category:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#VIOLIN Category:Swedish common-gender nouns#VIOLIN Category:Pages with entries#VIOLIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#VIOLIN

(music Category:sv:Musical instruments#VIOLIN, somewhat formal Category:Swedish formal terms#VIOLIN) violin
Synonym: fiol

Declension

Declension of *violin*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	violin	violins
singular	definite	violinen	violinens
plural	indefinite	violiner	violiners
plural	definite	violinerna	violinernas

References

“violin”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
“violin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
“violin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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violin

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Piedmontese

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Swedish

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