Alphorn

•  Language: German
  • • Substantive
    • ►▼ alphorn[Edit] : A wind instrument, consisting of a natural wooden horn of conical bore, having a cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.
      • ►▼ Lexical annotations

        Property	Value
        word class	substantive

      • ►▼ Definition

        Language	Text
        Dutch	Een houten blaasinstrument met een lengte tot vier meter.
        English	A wind instrument, consisting of a natural wooden horn of conical bore, having a cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.
        French	Instrument à vent consistant en une corne de bois naturel, de forme conique, ayant une embouchure en entonnoir, utilisé par les montagnards en Suisse et ailleurs.
        Italian	Strumento a fiato, costituito da un corno di legno naturale di forma conica, avente un bocchino a tazza, utilizzato dai montanari in Svizzera e altrove.

      • ►▼ Synonyms and translations

        	Expression		Annotation
        	Language	Spelling
        	Castilian	alforn	show ▼hide ▲
        	Castilian	corno de los Alpes	show ▼hide ▲
        	Castilian	cuerno alpino	show ▼hide ▲
        	Castilian	trompa de los Alpes	show ▼hide ▲
        	Dutch	alpenhoorn	show ▼hide ▲
        	English	alpenhorn	show ▼hide ▲
        	English	alphorn	show ▼hide ▲
        	English	alpine horn	show ▼hide ▲
        	Esperanto	alpokorno	show ▼hide ▲
        	Finnish	alppitorvi	show ▼hide ▲
        	French	cor alpin	show ▼hide ▲
        	French	cor des Alpes	show ▼hide ▲
        	Hebrew	קרן האלפים	show ▼hide ▲
        	Irish	alpchorn	show ▼hide ▲
        	Italian	corno delle alpi	show ▼hide ▲
        	Japanese	アルプホルン	show ▼hide ▲
        	Polish	róg alpejski	show ▼hide ▲
        	Portuguese	trompa dos Alpes	show ▼hide ▲
        	Romanian	cornul Alpilor	show ▼hide ▲
        	Russian	альпийский рог	show ▼hide ▲
        	Slovak	alpský roh	show ▼hide ▲
        	Swedish	alphorn	show ▼hide ▲
        	Turkish	Alp borazaný	show ▼hide ▲

      • ►▼ Semantic annotations

        Property	Value
        part of theme	music
        hypernym	aerophone
        Wikidata ID	q685206
        Commons category	Alphorns

      • ►▼ Class membership

        Class
        musical instrument