Xylophone - Wiktionary

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See also: Xylophone

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:xylophoneWikipedia

Etymology

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From xylo- (“of wood”) +‎ -phone (“sound”).

Pronunciation

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(UK) IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ.ləˌfəʊn/
(General American) IPA(key): /ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/
Audio (General American): (file)
Hyphenation: xy‧lo‧phone

Noun

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xylophone (plural xylophones)

(music) Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives. All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

Derived terms

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concert xylophone
metal xylophone
stone xylophone
xylophonist

Translations

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Afrikaans: xilofoon (af)
Albanian: ksilofon (sq)
Amharic: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: سِيلُوفُون m (sīlūfūn)
Armenian: քսիլոֆոն (hy) (kʻsilofon)
Asturian: xilófonu m
Azerbaijani: ksilofon
Basque: xilofono
Belarusian: ксілафо́н m (ksilafón)
Bulgarian: ксилофо́н m (ksilofón)
Burmese: ပတ္တလား (my) (patta.la:)
Catalan: xilòfon (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏓ ᏗᎦᎾᎵ ᏗᎬᏅᏍᏙᏗ (ada diganali digvnvsdodi)
Chinese: Cantonese: 木琴 (muk6 kam4) Mandarin: 木琴 (zh) (mùqín)
Czech: xylofon (cs) m
Danish: xylofon (da) c
Dutch: xylofoon (nl) m
Esperanto: ksilofono
Estonian: ksülofon
Faroese: sylofon f
Finnish: ksylofoni (fi)
French: xylophone (fr) m
Frisian: West Frisian: ksylofoan
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: xilófono (gl) m
German: Xylophon (de) n
Greek: ξυλόφωνο (el) n (xylófono)
Hebrew: קסילופון (he) m (ksilofón)
Hungarian: xilofon (hu)
Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: sílófónn m
Ido: xilofono (io)
Indonesian: xilofon (id)
Ingrian: please add this translation if you can
Irish: xileafón m
Italian: xilofono (it) m
Japanese: 木琴 (ja) (もっきん, mokkin), シロフォン (ja) (shirofon)
Korean: 실로폰 (ko) (sillopon)
Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: darînk
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: xylophonium n
Latvian: ksilofons m
Lithuanian: ksilofonas m
Lombard: please add this translation if you can
Low German: German Low German: Xylophon, Xylofon
Macedonian: ксилофон m (ksilofon)
Malagasy: atranatrana (mg)
Malay: xilofon (ms)
Marathi: जाय्लोफोन m (jāylophon)
Mirandese: xilofone
Moksha: кальхциямат (kalxcijämat), ксилофон (ksilofon)
Norwegian: Bokmål: xylofon (no) m Nynorsk: xylofon m
Occitan: xilofòn m
Oromo: please add this translation if you can
Persian: سنتور چوبی
Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
Polish: ksylofon (pl) m inan
Portuguese: xilofone (pt) m
Romanian: xilofon (ro) n
Russian: ксилофо́н (ru) m (ksilofón)
Scottish Gaelic: saidhleafon m, sèileafon m
Serbo-Croatian: Latin: ksilofon (sh) m
Silesian: ksylofůn
Sinhalese: සයිලොෆෝන් (sayilofōn)
Slovak: xylofón m
Slovene: ksilofon (sl) m
Spanish: xilófono (es) m, marimba (es) f
Swahili: marimba ya kizungu
Swedish: xylofon (sv) c
Tagalog: silopono
Tamil: சுரம் இசைவி (curam icaivi)
Thai: ระนาด (th) (rá-nâat), ไซโลโฟน
Tibetan: ཤིང་དཀྲོལ། (shing dkrol)
Tonga (Malawi): mangurongondo class 6
Turkish: ksilofon (tr)
Ukrainian: ксилофо́н m (ksylofón)
Uzbek: ksilofon
Vietnamese: mộc cầm
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: seiloffon m
Yiddish: קסילאָפֿאָן m (ksilofon)

References

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Vienna Symphonic Library. "Xylophone".

Verb

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xylophone (third-person singular simple present xylophones, present participle xylophoning, simple past and past participle xylophoned)

To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
- 2002, Amu Nnadi, The Fire Within: Poetry : Includes the Abiola Manuscript:my eager fingers xylophoning over the memories
- 2010 October 26, Barrie Summy, I So Don't Do Spooky, Yearling, →ISBN, page 27:Like a cat, I arch into the back of the bench, my spine xylophoning along the slats while the tension of the day slowly drains out of me. I'm totally chill and mellow.
- 2015 July 7, Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus, Trollhunters: The Book That Inspired the Netflix Animated Series TROLLHUNTERS!, Disney Electronic Content, →ISBN:The others waged active war, claws xylophoning across Jack's pinwheeling swords.
- 2020 August 4, George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus, The Living Dead, Tor Books, →ISBN:His right hand, the good one, found one of Glass's ankles, pulled. Glass fell, her ulna, clavicle, pevis, and kneecap xylophoning along stair edges.