accordion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /əˈkɔː.diː.ən/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔː.dɪi̯.n̩]
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• General-American: /əˈkoɹ.di.ən/
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• General-American: [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkoɹ.dɪi̯.n̩]
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• General-American: /əˈkɔɹ.di.ən/
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• General-American: [əˈkɔɹ.dɪi̯.ən] ~ [əˈkɔɹ.dɪi̯.n̩]
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 K AO1 R D IY0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥d- Proto-Italic *kord Latin cor Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin concordāreder. Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad-der. Vulgar Latin *accordāre Old French acorder Middle French accorder French accorderdeverb. French accordbor. German Akkord German -ion German Akkordeonbor. English accordion First attested in 1831. Borrowed from German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.

145 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Afrikaans: trekklavier — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Albanian: fizarmonikë — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Southern Altai: кагас комыс (kagas komïs) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Southern Altai: кат комыс (kat komïs) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Amharic: አኮርዲዮን (ʾäkordiyon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Arabic: أَكُورْدِيُون (ʔakurdiyūn) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Armenian: ակորդեոն (akordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Asturian: acordión — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Azerbaijani: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Basque: akordeoi — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Basque: eskusoinu — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Belarusian: акардэо́н (akardeón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Bengali: অ্যাকর্ডিয়ন (êkorḍiẏon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Bengali: বাদ্যযন্ত্রবিশেষ (baddojontrobiśeś) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Breton: akordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Bulgarian: хармо́ника (harmónika) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Bulgarian: акордео́н (akordeón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Burmese: အကော်ဒီယံ (a.kaudiyam) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Catalan: acordió — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Chinese Cantonese: 手風琴 /手风琴 (sau2 fung1 kam4) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Chinese: 手風琴 /手风琴 (zh-min-nan) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 手風琴 /手风琴 (shǒufēngqín) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Wu Chinese: 手風琴 /手风琴 (5seu-fon-jin) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Czech: akordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Czech: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Danish: trækharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Danish: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Danish: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Dutch: accordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Dutch: harmonica — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Esperanto: akordiono — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Estonian: akordion — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Estonian: lõõtspill — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Faroese: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Finnish: harmonikka — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Finnish: haitari — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Finnish: hanuri — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• French: accordéon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Galician: acordeón — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Georgian: აკორდეონი (aḳordeoni) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Ziehharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Handharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Handorgel — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Quetsche — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Quetschkommode — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• German: Schifferklavier — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Greek: ακορντεόν (akornteón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Hebrew: אָקּוֹרְדִּיּוֹן (akordiyón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Hindi: अकॉर्डियन (akŏrḍiyan) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Hungarian: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Hungarian: tangóharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Ido: akordeono — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Indonesian: akordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Interlingua: accordion — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Irish: cairdín — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Irish: acordán — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Italian: fisarmonica — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Japanese: アコーデオン (akōdeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Japanese: 手風琴 (tefūkin) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Kazakh: аккордеон (akkordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Khmer: អគ័រដេអុង (ʼɑɑkɔədeeʼong) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Korean: 아코디언 (akodieon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Korean: 수풍금 (supunggeum) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Northern Kurdish: akordiyon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Kyrgyz: аккордеон (akkordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Latin: accordio — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Latvian: akordeons — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Lithuanian: akordeonas — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Macedonian: армоника (armonika) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Macedonian: хармоника (harmonika) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Macedonian: акордео́н (akordeón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Malay: akordion — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Malay: tetarik — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Manx: coardeen — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Māori: kōriana — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Mongolian: баян хуур (bajan xuur) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Mongolian: аккордеон (akkordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ (bayan quɣur) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norman: accordéon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: trekkspell — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: trekkspill — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: dragspell — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: dragspill — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: trekkharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trekkspel — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dragspel — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trekkharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Nǀuu: treklefirsi — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Pashto: اکوردیون (akordún) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Persian: آکاردئون (âkârde'on) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Polish: akordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Polish: harmonia ręczna — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Portuguese: acordeão — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Portuguese: gaita — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Portuguese: sanfona — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Romanian: acordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Russian: гармо́ника (garmónika) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Russian: гармо́нь (garmónʹ) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Russian: аккордео́н (akkordeón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Russian: бая́н (baján) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Skolt-Sami: garmaan — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Scottish Gaelic: bogsa-ciùil — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: хармо̀ника — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: harmònika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Slovak: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Slovak: akordeón — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Slovene: harmọ́nika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Spanish: acordeón — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swahili: kodiani — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swahili: harimuni — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: dragspel — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: handklaver — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: dragharmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: bälgaspel — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: ackordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: ackordion — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Swedish: harmonika — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Tagalog: akordeyon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Tagalog: akurdyon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Tajik: аккордеон (akkordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Thai: หีบเพลงชัก (hìip-pleeng-chák) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Thai: หีบเพลง (hìip-pleeng) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Thai: แอกคอร์เดียน (ɛ́k-kɔɔ-dîian) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Tibetan: ལག་སྦྲེང (lag sbreng) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Turkish: akordiyon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Turkmen: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Tuvan: аккордеон (akkordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Udmurt: арган (argan) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Ukrainian: акордео́н (akordeón) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Ukrainian: гармо́нія (harmónija) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Uyghur: ئاككوردىيون (akkordiyon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Uzbek: akkordeon — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Vietnamese: phong cầm — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Vietnamese: đàn xếp — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Volapük: tiraharmonöm — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Welsh: acordion — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Welsh: cordion — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Yakut: аккордеон (akkordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument
• Yiddish: אַקאָרדעאָן (akordeon) — a small, portable, keyed wind instrument