guitarra

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/, [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

1. guitar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítara and cistre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈta.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡiˈta.ra]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ara

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

1. guitar

Derived terms

• guitarra acústica
• guitarra elèctrica
• guitarrer
• guitarrista
• guitarró

 

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kithárā). Doublet of cítara and cítola.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ħiˈtara/ [ħiˈt̪a.rɐ]

• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music) guitar

Derived terms

• guitarra acústica
• guitarra clásica
• guitarra eléctrica
• guitarrista

 

Noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

1. guitarist

   Synonym: guitarrista

Further reading

• “guitarra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Interlingua

Noun

guitarra (plural guitarras)

1. guitar

Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kithárā)bor.

Aramaic קיתראbor.

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.

Old Spanish guitarra

Spanish guitarrabor.

Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec guitarra

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra.

Noun

guitarra

1. guitar

   Synonym: yutnu tée yaa

References

• Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 30–31

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra).

Noun

guitarra f (plural *guitarras)

1. (music, hapax) classical guitar

Descendants

• Fala: guitarra
• Galician: guitarra
• Portuguese: guitarra

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “guitarra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “guitarra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• guitara

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kithárā). Doublet of cedra.

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music) classical guitar
   • c. 1376–1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, “De la informacion, insstruccion ho establimiento et començamiento de religion” (chapter 76), in [Rams de Flores o Libro de Actoridades], page 164c; republished as Conrado Guardiola Alcover, editor (in Spanish), Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1998, →ISBN, pages 222–223:

     Aurás por encuentro la companya de los proffectas deuallantes de la altura, et delant ellos es el salterio et la viola et la guitarra et la rabeua

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Spanish: guitarra

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “guitarra”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 284

Portuguese

guitarra

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kithárā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cistre.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.χɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁa/ [ɡiˈta.ha]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/

• Rhymes: -aʁɐ
• Hyphenation: gui‧tar‧ra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras) (music)

1. classical guitar

   Synonyms: guitarra clássica, (Brazil) violão

2. electric guitar

   Synonym: guitarra elétrica

Related terms

• guitarra elétrica
• guitarrear
• guitarrista

 

Romansch

Alternative forms

• ghitarra (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran)
• ghitara (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music, Puter, Vallader) guitar

Derived terms

• guitarrist
• guitarrista

 

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kithárā)bor.

Aramaic קיתראbor.

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.

Old Spanish guitarra

Spanish guitarra

Inherited from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kithárā). Doublet of cítara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. guitar
2. guitarfish

Derived terms

• guitarra acústica f
• guitarra clásica f
• guitarra eléctrica f
• guitarra española
• guitarrista
• guitarrón m

 

Related terms

• cítara

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: gitara
• → English: guitar, guittar (obsolete), gittar (eye dialect)
  • → Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)
  • → Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)
  • → Cantonese: 結他／结他 (git3 taa1)
  • → Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)
  • → Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)
  • → Irish: giotár
  • → Japanese: ギター (gitā)
    • → Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)
    • → Hokkien: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)
  • → Korean: 기타 (gita)
  • → Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: giotàr
  • → Sidamo: giitare
  • → Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)
• → French: guitare
• ⇒ Old French: guiterne
  • → English: gittern
    • ⇒ English: cittern
• → German: Gitarre
  • → Hungarian: gitár
• → Latvian: ģitāra
• → Macedonian: гитара (gitara)
• → Polish: gitara
• → Russian: гитара (gitara)
  • → Mongolian: гитар (gitar)
• → Serbo-Croatian: гитара
• → Tagalog: gitara
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: qui̱töra

Noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

1. guitarist

   Synonym: guitarrista

Further reading

• “guitarra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014