glockenspiel

See also: Glockenspiel

English

Etymology

From German Glockenspiel (literally “bells-set”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: glŏkʹən-shpēl'
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒk.ənˌʃpiːl/, or sometimes /-spiːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑk.ənˌʃpil/, or sometimes /-spil/
• (like German) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔk.n̩ˌʃpiːl/, /ˈɡlɔk.ŋ̩ˌʃpiːl/
• Hyphenation: glock‧en‧spiel

• Audio (US):

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Noun

glockenspiel (plural glockenspiels)

1. (music) A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

Derived terms

• glockenspielist

Related terms

• chimes
• carillon

Translations

musical instrument

• Albanian: karijon
• Basque: kariloi
• Bulgarian: глокеншпи́л (glokenšpíl)
• Catalan: carilló (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鐵片琴／铁片琴 (tit⁶ pin⁵ kam⁴)

  Mandarin: 鐘琴／钟琴 (zh) (zhōngqín), 鐘片琴／钟片琴 (zhōngpiànqín)

• Czech: zvonkohra
• Danish: klokkespil n
• Dutch: klokkenspel (nl) n; beiaard (nl)
• Esperanto: kampaneto
• Estonian: kellalüüra
• Finnish: kellopeli (fi)
• French: carillon (fr); jeu de timbres
• German: Glockenspiel (de) n
• Hungarian: harangjáték (hu)
• Icelandic: klukkuspil
• Indonesian: lonceng kumpulan
• Italian: campanelli (it) m pl
• Japanese: 鉄琴 (ja) (てっきん, tekkin)
• Macedonian: глокеншпил m (glokenšpil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klokkespill

  Nynorsk: klokkespel

• Polish: dzwonki (pl); kuranty
• Portuguese: campainha (pt) f
• Romanian: glockenspiel (ro) n
• Russian: глокеншпиль (ru) (glokenšpilʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zvoncici, zvonoigra

• Slovak: zvonkohra
• Spanish: carillón (es) m
• Swedish: klockspel (sv)
• Turkish: glokenspil
• Vietnamese: chuông (vi)

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Glockenspiel.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

glockenspiel m (plural glockenspiels)

1. glockenspiel

Further reading

• “glockenspiel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Glockenspiel.

Noun

glockenspiel n (plural glockenspieluri)

1. glockenspiel

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	glockenspiel	glockenspielul		glockenspieluri	glockenspielurile
genitive-dative	glockenspiel	glockenspielului		glockenspieluri	glockenspielurilor
vocative	glockenspielule			glockenspielurilor