Harp

English

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Noun

Harp (plural Harps)

1. A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.

Verb

Harp (third-person singular simple present Harps, present participle Harping, simple past and past participle Harped)

1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

   Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?

Adjectives for Harp

murmuring; piano; neglected; cunning; mysterious; sullen; reproofless; impaled; aeolian; smitten; solemn; sounding; sweet; tuneful.

Verbs for Harp

flow from—; marry to—; pitch—; string—; strum—; touch—; tune—; waken—; welcome—; —chimes; —disarms; —enervates; —entrances; —pleases; —reverberates; — rings out; —sings; —sleeps; —soothes; — thrills; —trembles; —whispers.

Adverbs for Harp

exclusively; repetitiously; irksomely; naggingly; inexorably; bitterly; moodily; venomously; groundlessly; sullenly.

Synonyms for Harp

keep on about, perseverate, repeat, dwell, reiterate, nag, renew, bother, annoy, drum, pester, hammer, din.

Derived terms

• harpist

Thesaurus

French harp, Irish harp, aeolian harp, cithara, clarsach, dulcimer, harmonica, harmonicon, heptachord, hexachord, kazoo, langspiel, lyre, mouth bow, mouth harp, mouth organ, polychord, symphonia, zither

Etymology

From Old English hearpe, from Germanic *harpon-. Cognate with Dutch harp, German Harfe, Swedish harpa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /hɑːp/
• (US) IPA: /hɑɻp/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)p

See also

• lyre

Translations

Noun

musical instrument

Armenian: տավիղ (hy) (taviġ) Bosnian: harfa (bs) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 豎琴 (cmn), 竖琴 (cmn) (shùqín) Croatian: harfa (hr) f. Czech: harfa (cs) f. Danish: harpe (da) Dutch: harp (nl) f. Esperanto: harpo (eo) Estonian: harf (et) Finnish: harppu (fi) French: harpe (fr) f. German: Harfe (de) f. Greek: άρπα (árpa) f. Hebrew: נֵבֶל (he) Hiligaynon: árpa Hungarian: hárfa (hu) Icelandic: harpa (is)

Italian: arpa (it) f. Japanese: ハープ (ja) Latin: sambuca (la) f., harpa (la) f., psalterium (la) n. Norwegian: harpe (no) m. and f. Polish: harfa (pl) f. Romanian: harfă (ro) f. Russian: арфа (ru) (árfa) f. Scottish Gaelic: clàrsach f., troman m., troman-ciùil m. Serbian: Cyrillic: харфа f. Roman: harfa f. Slovene: harfa (sl) f. Spanish: arpa (es) f. Swahili: kinubi (sw) Swedish: harpa (sv) c. Turkish: arp (tr) Welsh: telyn (cy) f.

Verb

to repeatedly mention a subject

Finnish: jankuttaa (fi) German: auf (etwas) herumreiten

Swedish: tjata (sv), älta (sv)

Anagrams

• PHAR

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch harpe, from Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpōn.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /hɑrp/

Noun

Harp f. and m. (plural harpen, diminutive harpje, diminutive plural harpjes)

1. harp

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɑrp/

Noun

harp

1. (dated) war

Synonyms

• savaş
• cenk