strum

See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /strʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Verb

strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

Examples
The sound of a ukelele being strummed(file)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strum (plural strums)

  1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
  2. The act of strumming.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Slav.[1]

Noun

strum m (definite singular strumi)

  1. pool

Further reading
  • “strum” on fjalorthi.com
  • strum in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “strum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
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