cymbal

See also: Cymbal and cymbał

English

Etymology

English Wikipedia has an article on:

cymbal

From Middle English cymbal, from Old English cimbal, cimbala and Old French cimbale, both from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”). See also chime.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmbəl/, [ˈsɪmbɫ̩]
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Homophone: symbol

Noun

cymbal (plural cymbals)

(music) A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
  The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,
  Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,
  Make the sun dance.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13::
  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act I, page 5:
  Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne,
  As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.
- 1881–82, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The Mystic Trumpeter":
  I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang […]

Hyponyms

china

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Welsh: symbal m or f

Translations

concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck

Arabic: صَنْج m (ṣanj)
Armenian: ծնծղա (cncġa)
Assamese: তাল (tal)
Belarusian: тале́ркі f pl (taljérki)
Bhojpuri: झांझ (jhāñjh)
Bulgarian: чинел (bg) m (činel)
Burmese: ခွက်ခွင်း (my) (hkwakhkwang:) (obsolete)
Catalan: platerets (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鐃鈸 / 铙钹 (zh) (náobó), 鈸 / 钹 (zh) (bó), 鑔 / 镲 (zh) (chǎ)
Czech: činel m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: klankbekken n
Estonian: taldrik (et)
Finnish: lautanen (fi), symbaali (fi)
French: cymbale (fr) f
German: Becken (de) n
Gothic: 𐌺𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌼𐍉 f (klismō)
Greek: κύμβαλο (el) n (kýmvalo)
Ancient: κύμβαλον n (kúmbalon)
Hindi: झांझ m (jhāñjh)
Hungarian: cintányér (hu)
Icelandic: málmgjöll n pl, symball m
Ido: cimbalo (io)
Irish: ciombal m
Italian: piatto (it) m
Japanese: シンバル (ja) (shimbaru)
Korean: 제금 (jegeum), 바라 (bara), 심벌즈 (ko) (simbeoljeu)
Latin: cymbalum n
Latvian: šķīvji m pl
Macedonian: чинели m pl (čineli), чампари pl (čampari)
Maori: tīwēwē
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bekken (no) n, cymbal m

Nynorsk: bekken n, cymbal m
Ottoman Turkish: زل (zil)
Persian: سنج (fa) (senj), چلپ (fa) (čalap)
Polish: talerz (pl) m, czynel (pl) m
Portuguese: prato (pt) m
Russian: таре́лки (ru) f pl (tarélki), таре́лка (ru) f (tarélka)
Serbo-Croatian: činele (sh) f pl
Cyrillic: цимбал m, цимбало, тас n

Roman: cimbal (sh) m, cimbalo, tas (sh) n
Slovene: činela f
Spanish: plato (es) m sg, platos (es) m pl, platillo (es) m sg, platillos (es) m pl, címbalo (es) m sg, címbalos (es) m pl, cimbales m pl
Swedish: cymbal (sv) c, bäcken (sv) n (uncommon)
Tagalog: pompiyang
Thai: ฉาบ (th) (chàap)
Turkish: halile (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎕𐎍𐎚𐎎 (mṣltm)
Ukrainian: тарілки́ (uk) f pl (tarilký)
Vietnamese: chũm choẹ (vi)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʏmˈbɑːl/

Noun

cymbal m (definite singular cymbalen, indefinite plural cymbalar, definite plural cymbalane)

alternative spelling of symbal

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

cymbal

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

cymbal c

Declension

Declension of *cymbal*
		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cymbal	cymbals
singular	definite	cymbalen	cymbalens
plural	indefinite	cymbaler	cymbalers
plural	definite	cymbalerna	cymbalernas

References