gitar
Turkish
/ɟitaɾ/
noun
Definitions
- (musical instruments) guitar
Etymology
Borrowed from French guitare (guitar) derived from Spanish, Castilian guitarra (guitar) derived from Arabic قِيثَارَة derived from Latin cithara (cithara, lyre, cithern, guitar, lute) derived from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kind of harp, lyre, a kind of harp, kithara).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κιθάρα
Gloss
kind of harp, lyre, a kind of harp, kithara
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cithara English
- cither English
- citole English
- guitar English
- kitara Finnish
- citera Latin
- cithara Latin
- citharicen Latin
- citharoedus Latin
- cithera Latin
- Gitarre German
- Zither German
- chitarra Italian
- gitaar Dutch, Flemish
- cithare French
- guitare French
- гита́ра Russian
- гитара Russian
- cítara Spanish, Castilian
- guitarra Spanish, Castilian
- guitarrear Spanish, Castilian
- guitarrero Spanish, Castilian
- guitarrista Spanish, Castilian
- κιθάρα Ancient Greek
- κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ Ancient Greek
- cítara Portuguese
- gitarr Swedish
- gitara Polish
- citer Danish
- قيثارة Arabic
- قِيثَارَة Arabic
- قِيثَارَة Arabic
- guiterne Old French
- gitara Serbo-Croatian
- гитара Serbo-Croatian
- κιθάρα Greek (modern)
- gitara Cebuano
- zithara Old High German
- կիթառ Old Armenian
- ghi-ta Vietnamese
- gitara Tagalog
- גיטרה Hebrew (modern)
- cithara Old Dutch
- гитара Macedonian
- ហ្គីតា Central Khmer
- chitarra Sicilian
- קיתרא Aramaic
- gita Haitian, Haitian Creole
- Jitta Central Franconian
- qui̱töra Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- gitarra Mezquital Otomi
- gitara Yogad
- gitara Cuyunon
- guitarra Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec
- ki̱tara Ayutla Mixtec