guitar

English
An acoustic guitar

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة‎ (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/
  • IPA(key): /ɡiˈtɑɹ/
  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈtɑɹ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ), -ɑː
    Hyphenation: gui‧tar

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

  1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
    Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.
    She was carrying her guitar in a fancily-decorated case.
    The band is looking for a new guitar player.
  2. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Synonyms
  • axe (slang)
  • gat (New Zealand slang)

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)
  • → 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)
    • → Min Nan: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)
  • → Korean: 기타 (gita)
  • → Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)
  • → Sidamo: giitare
  • → Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)

Translations

References

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

  1. (rare) To play the guitar.
    • 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:
      We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.

See also
  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

guit +‎ -ar

Pronunciation

Verb

guitar (first-person singular present guito, past participle guitat)

  1. (intransitive) to kick, to buck (of horses and mules)

Conjugation
Conjugation of guitar (first conjugation)
infinitive guitar
present participle guitant
past participle masculine feminine
singular guitat guitada
plural guitats guitades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present guito guites guita guitem guiteu guiten
imperfect guitava guitaves guitava guitàvem guitàveu guitaven
future guitaré guitaràs guitarà guitarem guitareu guitaran
preterite guití guitares guità guitàrem guitàreu guitaren
conditional guitaria guitaries guitaria guitaríem guitaríeu guitarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè		 nosaltres
nós		 vosaltres
vós		 ells/elles
vostès
present guiti guitis guiti guitem guiteu guitin
imperfect guités guitessis guités guitéssim guitéssiu guitessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós		 vostès
— guita guiti guitem guiteu guitin

Further reading

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡitar/, [ˈɡ̊itˢɑːˀ]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

  1. guitar

Inflection
Declension of guitar
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative guitar guitaren guitarer guitarerne
genitive guitars guitarens guitarers guitarernes
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