hautbois

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautboy.

Noun

hautbois (plural hautbois)

1. Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.

   Synonym: oboe

2. Any of the (now obsolete) predecessors of the oboe or cor anglais.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 3”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.

Derived terms

• hautboist

French

Etymology

Univerbation of haut bois (“high (pitched) wood(wind)”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o.bwa/

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Noun

hautbois m (plural hautbois)

1. oboe
2. oboist

Derived terms

• hautbois d’amour
• hautboïste

Descendants

• → English: hautboy
• → Hungarian: oboa
• → Italian: oboè (obsolete), oboe
• → Korean: 오보에 (obo'e)
• → Russian: гобо́й (gobój)
  • → Armenian: հոբոյ (hoboy)
  • → Azerbaijani: qoboy
  • → Georgian: ჰობოი (hoboi)
  • → Kazakh: гобой (goboi)
• → Spanish: oboe
• → Turkish: obua
• → Vietnamese: ô-boa

Further reading

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