fugue

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• Multicultural-London-English: /ˈfyɡ/
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• /ˈfjuːɡ/
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• rhymes with -uːɡ
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Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts. Doublet of fuga.

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: فُوغَا (fūḡā) — piece of music
• Arabic: فُوغَا (fūgā) — piece of music
• Armenian: ֆուգա (fuga) — piece of music
• Azerbaijani: fuqa — piece of music
• Belarusian: фуга (fuha) — piece of music
• Bulgarian: фуга (fuga) — piece of music
• Catalan: fuga — piece of music
• Chinese Mandarin: 賦格 /赋格 (fùgé) — piece of music
• Czech: fuga — piece of music
• Danish: fuga — piece of music
• Dutch: fuga — piece of music
• Esperanto: fugo — piece of music
• Estonian: fuuga — piece of music
• Finnish: fuuga — piece of music
• French: fugue — piece of music
• Friulian: fughe — piece of music
• Georgian: ფუგა (puga) — piece of music
• German: Fuge — piece of music
• Greek: φούγκα (foúgka) — piece of music
• Greek: φυγή (fygí) — piece of music
• Hebrew: פוּגָה — piece of music
• Hungarian: fúga — piece of music
• Icelandic: fúga — piece of music
• Ido: fugo — piece of music
• Italian: fuga — piece of music
• Japanese: 遁走曲 (tonsōkyoku) — piece of music
• Japanese: フーガ (fūga) — piece of music
• Korean: 푸가 (puga) — piece of music
• Latin: contrāpunctus — piece of music
• Lithuanian: fuga — piece of music
• Macedonian: фуга (fuga) — piece of music
• Occitan: fuga — piece of music
• Persian: فوگ (fug) — piece of music
• Polish: fuga — piece of music
• Portuguese: fuga — piece of music
• Romanian: fugă — piece of music
• Russian: фу́га (fúga) — piece of music
• Slovak: fúga — piece of music
• Slovene: fuga — piece of music
• Spanish: fuga — piece of music
• Swedish: fuga — piece of music
• Turkish: füg — piece of music
• Uzbek: fuga — piece of music
• Vietnamese: tẩu pháp — piece of music
• German: Fuge — anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity
• Greek: φυγή (fygí) — anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity
• Polish: fuga — anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity
• Russian: фу́га (fúga) — anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity
• Slovene: fuga — anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity