strum

See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /strʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

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Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

• strummer

Translations

play a stringed instrument

• Bulgarian: дрънкам (bg) (drǎnkam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扫弦 (sǎoxián)

• Czech: brnkat impf, zabrnkat pf
• Finnish: rämpyttää (fi)
• French: racler (fr), gratter (fr)
• German: schrammeln (de)
• Hungarian: penget (hu)
• Maori: rakiraki (mi), rakuraku
• Polish: brzdąkać impf, brzdąknąć pf, brzdękać impf, brzdęknąć pf
• Russian: бренча́ть (ru) impf (brenčátʹ)
• Spanish: rasguear (es), charrasquear (es)
• Vietnamese: gảy (vi), khảy

Noun

strum (plural strums)

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

   hear the strum of a guitar

2. The act of strumming.

   give the banjo a little strum

Derived terms

• strum box

Anagrams

• Sturm, turms

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Slav.

Noun

strum m (definite strumi)

1. pool

Further reading

• “strum”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• “strum”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980