gitarr

Swedish

akustisk gitarr [acoustic guitar]
(Ljudhål (“sound hole”) appears to be much more common than resonanshål.)

elgitarr [electric guitar]

Etymology

From French guitare f, Spanish guitarra f or Italian chitarra f, all from Arabic قِيثَارَة f (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara f, from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ f (kĭthắrā). Of common ancestry to cittra and kitara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɪˈtar/

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Noun

gitarr c

1. (music) a guitar

   Synonym: (slang) gura

   spela gitarr

   play the guitar

   lira gitarr

   play guitar [colloquial]

   stämma en gitarr

   tune a guitar

Declension

Declension of gitarr

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	gitarr	gitarrs
	definite	gitarren	gitarrens
plural	indefinite	gitarrer	gitarrers
	definite	gitarrerna	gitarrernas

Derived terms

• akustisk gitarr (“acoustic guitar”)
• elgitarr (“electric guitar”)
• gitarrist

See also

• ackord (“chord”)
• (grepp)band (“fret”)
• greppbräda (“fingerboard; fretboard”)
• hals (“neck”)
• huvud (“head”)
• knäppa (“pluck”)
• kropp (“body”)
• ljudhål (“sound hole”)
• plektrum (“pick, plectrum”)
• plektrumskydd (“pickguard”)
• resonansbotten (“soundboard”)
• resonanslåda (“sound box”)
• sadel (“nut”)
• slå an
• stall (“bridge”)
• sträng (“string”)
• stämskruv (“tuning peg”)

References

• “gitarr”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “gitarr”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “gitarr”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• gitarr.org – Engelska gitarrtermer översatta till svenska

Anagrams

• tigrar