acoustic guitar

English

Etymology

Retronym for guitar, coined after the invention of the electric guitar to refer to the older type of guitar and avoid confusion with the electric guitar.

Noun

acoustic guitar (plural acoustic guitars)

An acoustic guitar

1. A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar.

   He was playing the acoustic guitar while his girlfriend was on the drums.

Related terms

• acoustic guitarist

Translations

hollow-body guitar

• Arabic: غِيتَار صَوْتِيّ f (gitār ṣawtiyy)
• Armenian: ակուստիկ կիթառ (akustik kitʻaṙ)
• Azerbaijani: akustik gitara
• Catalan: guitarra acústica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原聲吉他／原声吉他 (yuánshēng jítā), 木吉他 (mùjítā)

• Czech: akustická kytara f
• Danish: akustisk guitar
• Dutch: akoestische gitaar m or f
• Esperanto: akustika gitaro
• Finnish: akustinen kitara
• French: guitare acoustique (fr) f
• Galician: guitarra acústica f
• German: akustische Gitarre f, Akustikgitarre f
• Greek: ακουστική κιθάρα (el) f (akoustikí kithára)
• Hungarian: akusztikus gitár
• Irish: giotár fuaimiúil m, giotár acústach m
• Japanese: アコースティックギター (ja) (akōsuthikkugitā), アコギ (akogi)
• Korean: 어쿠스틱 기타 (eokuseutik gita)
• Macedonian: акустична гитара f (akustična gitara)
• Maori: kitā orooro
• Polish: gitara akustyczna f, akustyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: guitarra acústica f, violão (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: chitară acustică f
• Russian: акусти́ческая гита́ра f (akustíčeskaja gitára)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: akustična gitara f

• Spanish: guitarra acústica f
• Swedish: akustisk gitarr c
• Turkish: akustik gitar (tr)
• Ukrainian: акустична гітара f (akustyčna hitara)
• Welsh: gitâr acwstig, gitâr clybodig
• Yiddish: אַקוסטישע גיטאַר (akustishe gitar)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Further reading

• 2004. Acoustic Guitar. Chad Johnson. Pg. 5.