harmonica

From armonica, coined by Benjamin Franklin to refer to his glass harmonica, an instrument that predated the small wind instrument by several decades.^[1] Doublet of harmonic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑɹˈmɒ.nɪ.kə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌhɑɹˈmɑ.nɪ.kə/

harmonica (plural harmonicas)

1. A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note
2. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
3. A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

• French harp
• gob iron
• harmonicon (dated)
• Mississippi sax
• mouth harp
• mouth organ
• tin sandwich

• → Dutch: harmonica
• → German: Harmonika
  • → French: harmonica
  • →? Plautdietsch: Harmonika
  • → Polish: harmonika
  • → Upper Sorbian: harmonika
• → Spanish: armónica
• → Japanese: ハーモニカ (hāmonika)
  • → Sakizaya: hamunika
• → Korean: 하모니카 (hamonika)

• charmonia

Borrowed from English harmonica (“musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses”), coined by Benjamin Franklin as armonica based on Italian armonica, from Latin harmonica, feminine of harmonicus, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “harmony”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦɑrˈmoː.ni.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: har‧mo‧ni‧ca

harmonica f (plural harmonica's)

1. harmonica, mouth harp (portable wind instrument)

   Synonym: mondharmonica

2. harmonica, glass harmonica (musical instrument made from hemispherical glasses)

   Synonym: glasharmonica

• glasharmonica
• handharmonica
• harmonicabus
• knopharmonica
• mondharmonica
• trekharmonica

Borrowed from German Harmonika; compare harmonique.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.mɔ.ni.ka/

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harmonica m (plural harmonicas)

1. harmonica

• “harmonica”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.