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harpa

See also: Harpa, harpă, and härpå

Faroese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Icelandic harpa, Norwegian and Danish harpe, Swedish harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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harpa f (genitive singular harpu, plural harpur)

  1. harp

Declension

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Declension of harpa
f1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative harpa harpan harpur harpurnar
accusative harpu harpuna harpur harpurnar
dative harpu harpuni harpum harpunum
genitive harpu harpunnar harpa harpanna

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French

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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harpa

  1. third-person singular past historic of harper

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Faroese hørpa, harpa, Norwegian and Danish harpe, Swedish harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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harpa f (genitive singular hörpu, nominative plural hörpur)

  1. harp

Declension

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Declension of harpa (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative harpa harpan hörpur hörpurnar
accusative hörpu hörpuna hörpur hörpurnar
dative hörpu hörpunni hörpum hörpunum
genitive hörpu hörpunnar harpa, harpna harpanna, harpnanna

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Frankish *harpā. First attested in Fortunatus, 7th c. (plaudat tibi barbarus harpa).

Noun

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harpa f (genitive harpae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. harp

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: harpe
      • Middle French: harpe
      • Norman: harpe (Jersiais)
      • Picard: hârpe (Athois)
      • Walloon: ârpe (Forrières)
    • Old Occitan: arpa
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Italo-Romance

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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harpa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of harpe

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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harpa f

  1. definite singular of harpe

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

Noun

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harpa f

  1. harp

Declension

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Declension of harpa (on-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative harpa harpan harpu(r), -o(r) harpuna(r), -ona(r)
accusative harpu, -o harpuna, -ona harpu(r), -o(r) harpuna(r), -ona(r)
dative harpu, -o harpunni, -onne harpum, -om harpumin, -omen
genitive harpu, -o harpunna(r), -onna(r) harpa harpanna

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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harpa

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arpa, from Late Latin harpa, from Frankish *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: har‧pa

Noun

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harpa f (plural harpas)

  1. harp (musical instrument)

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Further reading

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  • “harpa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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harpa f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of harpă

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾpa/ [ˈaɾ.pa]
  • Rhymes: -aɾpa
  • Syllabification: har‧pa

Noun

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harpa f (plural harpas)

  1. Rare spelling of arpa.

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Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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en kvinna som spelar harpa [a woman playing the harp [playing harp]]

Etymology

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From Old Swedish harpa, from Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Norwegian and Danish harpe, Icelandic harpa, Faroese hørpa, harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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harpa c

  1. (music) a harp
  2. a grain sieve

Declension

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Declension of harpa
nominative genitive
singular indefinite harpa harpas
definite harpan harpans
plural indefinite harpor harpors
definite harporna harpornas

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