euphonium

English

A euphonium.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὔφωνος (eúphōnos, “sweet-voiced”) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːˈfəʊnɪəm/

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• Rhymes: -əʊniəm

Noun

euphonium (plural euphoniums)

1. A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.
   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 68:

     [T]hey could easily have been wearing euphoniums and woad for all the notice their quarry would have taken of them.

Derived terms

• euphoniumist

Translations

brass instrument

• Arabic: بُوق (būq)
• Armenian: էուֆոնիում (ēufonium)
• Azerbaijani: euphonium
• Basque: eufonio
• Belarusian: мілагучная гаворка (milahučnaja havórka)
• Catalan: eufoni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗管上低音號 / 粗管上低音号 (cūguǎn shàngdīyīnhào)

• Danish: euphonium
• Dutch: euphonium (nl)
• Esperanto: eŭfono
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: eufonium (fi)
• Galician: eufonio (gl) m, baixo (gl) m
• Georgian: ბარიტონი (bariṭoni)
• German: Euphonium (de) n
• Hungarian: eufónium
• Indonesian: eufonium (id)
• Irish: eofón m
• Italian: eufonio m
• Japanese: ユーフォニアム (ja) (yūfoniamu), ユーフォニウム (yūfoniumu)
• Korean: 바들은 (badeureun)
• Limburgish: euphonium
• Persian: یوفونیوم
• Polish: eufonium n
• Portuguese: eufônio (pt) m
• Romanian: eufoniu (ro) n
• Russian: эуфониум (ru) m (eufonium)
• Scottish Gaelic: euphonium
• Sicilian: bummardinu m
• Slovene: evfonij m
• Spanish: eufonio, bombardino (es),
• Thai: ยูโฟเนียม
• Ukrainian: милозвучна мова (mylozvučna mova)