harmonica

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• UK: /ˌhɑɹˈmɒ.nɪ.kə/
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• US: /ˌhɑɹˈmɑ.nɪ.kə/
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From armonica. Coined by American polymath and statesman Benjamin Franklin to refer to his glass harmonica, an instrument that predated the small wind instrument by several decades. Doublet of harmonic; compare Latin harmonicus.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: mondfluitjie — wind instrument
• Afrikaans: bekfluitjie — wind instrument
• Afrikaans: mondharmonika — wind instrument
• Arabic: هارمونيكا (harmunika) — wind instrument
• Bulgarian: устна хармоника (ustna harmonika) — wind instrument
• Catalan: harmònica — wind instrument
• Chinese Cantonese: 口琴 (hau2 kam4) — wind instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 口琴 (kǒuqín) — wind instrument
• Czech: harmonika — wind instrument
• Danish: mundharmonika — wind instrument
• Danish: mundharpe — wind instrument
• Dutch: mondharmonica — wind instrument
• Esperanto: buŝharmoniko — wind instrument
• Estonian: suupill — wind instrument
• Faroese: munnharpa — wind instrument
• Finnish: huuliharppu — wind instrument
• French: harmonica — wind instrument
• German: Mundharmonika — wind instrument
• Greek: φυσαρμόνικα (fysarmónika) — wind instrument
• Hebrew: מַפּוּחִית פֶּה (mapukhit pe) — wind instrument
• Hungarian: szájharmonika — wind instrument
• Icelandic: munnharpa — wind instrument
• Ilocano: silindro — wind instrument
• Indonesian: harmonika — wind instrument
• Irish: armónach — wind instrument
• Italian: armonica — wind instrument
• Japanese: ハーモニカ (hāmonika) — wind instrument
• Japanese: 口風琴 (kuchifūkin) — wind instrument
• Korean: 하모니카 (hamonika) — wind instrument
• Korean: 구풍금 (gupunggeum) — wind instrument
• Northern Kurdish: harmonîka — wind instrument
• Lithuanian: lūpinė armonikėlė — wind instrument
• Macedonian: у́сна хармо́ника (úsna harmónika) — wind instrument
• Maltese: armonika — wind instrument
• Māori: hāmonika — wind instrument
• Māori: pūtangitangi — wind instrument
• Marathi: हार्मोनिका (hārmonikā) — wind instrument
• Marshallese: am̧onika — wind instrument
• Mongolian: аман хуур (aman xuur) — wind instrument
• Norwegian: munnspill — wind instrument
• Norwegian: munnharmonika — wind instrument
• Persian: سازدهنی (sâzdahani) — wind instrument
• Polish: harmonijka — wind instrument
• Portuguese: gaita — wind instrument
• Portuguese: harmónica — wind instrument
• Portuguese: gaita de beiços — wind instrument
• Romanian: muzicuță — wind instrument
• Russian: губна́я гармо́ника (gubnája garmónika) — wind instrument
• Russian: губна́я гармо́шка (gubnája garmóška) — wind instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: усна хармоника — wind instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: usna harmonika — wind instrument
• Sicilian: sunettu a bucca — wind instrument
• Spanish: armónica — wind instrument
• Spanish: harmónica — wind instrument
• Spanish: rondín — wind instrument
• Swahili: kinanda cha mdomo — wind instrument
• Swahili: kinanda cha mkono — wind instrument
• Swedish: munspel — wind instrument
• Tagalog: silindro — wind instrument
• Tagalog: armonika — wind instrument
• Turkish: mızıka — wind instrument
• Turkish: armonika — wind instrument
• Ukrainian: губна́ гармо́ніка (hubná harmónika) — wind instrument
• Vietnamese: khẩu cầm — wind instrument
• Volapük: harmonöm — wind instrument
• Walloon: muzike a boke — wind instrument
• Walloon: muzike a boutche — wind instrument
• Welsh: crwth genau — wind instrument
• German: Glasharmonika — musical instrument, consisting of a series of glasses