vibraphone

English

vibraphone

Etymology

From vibra(to) ‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɑɪ.bɹəˌfəʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vibraphone (plural vibraphones)

1. A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.

Derived terms

• vibraphonist

Translations

percussion instrument

• Bulgarian: вибрафон m (vibrafon)
• Catalan: vibràfon (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 顫音琴／颤音琴 (zhànyīnqín), 震音鐵琴／震音铁琴 (zhènyīn tiěqín)

• Czech: vibrafon
• Danish: vibrafon
• Dutch: vibrafoon (nl)
• Esperanto: vibrafono
• Estonian: vibrafon
• Finnish: vibrafoni (fi)
• French: vibraphone (fr) m
• Galician: vibráfono (gl) m
• German: Vibraphon (de) n
• Hungarian: vibrafon (hu)
• Icelandic: víbrafónn m
• Indonesian: vibrafon
• Italian: vibrafono
• Japanese: ビブラフォン (biburafon)
• Macedonian: ви́брафон m (víbrafon)
• Norwegian: vibrafon
• Polish: wibrafon
• Portuguese: vibrafone (pt)
• Romanian: vibrafon (ro)
• Russian: вибрафо́н (ru) m (vibrafón)
• Serbo-Croatian: вибрафон m, vibrafon (sh) m
• Slovene: vibrafon
• Spanish: vibráfono m
• Swedish: vibrafon (sv)
• Turkish: vibrafon

Further reading

• vibraphone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From vibrato ‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.bʁa.fɔn/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

vibraphone m (plural vibraphones)

1. vibraphone

Derived terms

• vibraphoniste

Further reading

• “vibraphone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• vibraphone on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr