a cappella

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Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of the [Sistine] chapel”), referring to non-instrumental choirs.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Cantonese: 清唱 (cing1 coeng3) — singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment
• Hungarian: a cappella — singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment
• Hungarian: kíséret nélküli — singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment
• Spanish: a capela — singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment
• Spanish: a capella — singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment
• Spanish: a cappella — singing solely or mainly without instrumental accompaniment
• Afrikaans: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Chinese Mandarin: 阿卡貝拉 /阿卡贝拉 (ākǎbèilā) — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Chinese Mandarin: 無伴奏合唱 /无伴奏合唱 (wúbànzòu héchàng) — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Danish: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Dutch: a capella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Estonian: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Finnish: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• French: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• German: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Hungarian: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Hungarian: kíséret nélkül — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Italian: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Japanese: アカペラ (akapera) — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Korean: 아카펠라 (akapella) — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Latin: ad sacellum — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Lithuanian: kapela — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Māori: waiata tahanga — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Norwegian Bokmål: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Persian: بیساز (bi-sâz) — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Polish: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Portuguese: à capela — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Portuguese: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Russian: а капе́лла (a kapɛ́lla) — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Spanish: a capela — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Spanish: a capella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Spanish: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Swedish: a cappella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Tagalog: sayil — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment
• Turkish: akapella — performed by a choir with no instrumental accompaniment