noun
Meaning 1
Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
harpist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /ˈhɑɹpɪst/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 R P IH0 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
someone who plays the harp
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: harper
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musician, instrumentalist, player
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English harp Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English harpist From harp + -ist.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: տավիղահար (taviġahar) — Person who plays the harp
- Belarusian: арфіст (arfist) — Person who plays the harp
- Belarusian: арфістка (arfistka) — Person who plays the harp
- Catalan: arpista — Person who plays the harp
- Chinese Cantonese: 豎琴家 /竖琴家 (syu6 kam4 gaa1) — Person who plays the harp
- Chinese Mandarin: 豎琴家 /竖琴家 (shùqínjiā) — Person who plays the harp
- Czech: harfenista — Person who plays the harp
- Czech: harfista — Person who plays the harp
- Czech: harfeník — Person who plays the harp
- Czech: harfenice — Person who plays the harp
- Czech: harfistka — Person who plays the harp
- Czech: harfenistka — Person who plays the harp
- Dutch: harpist — Person who plays the harp
- Dutch: harpiste — Person who plays the harp
- Esperanto: harpisto — Person who plays the harp
- Finnish: harpisti — Person who plays the harp
- French: harpiste — Person who plays the harp
- Old French: herpeor — Person who plays the harp
- Galician: arpista — Person who plays the harp
- German: Harfenspieler — Person who plays the harp
- German: Harfenspielerin — Person who plays the harp
- German: Harfenist — Person who plays the harp
- German: Harfenistin — Person who plays the harp
- German: Harfner — Person who plays the harp
- German: Harfnerin — Person who plays the harp
- Irish: cláirseoir — Person who plays the harp
- Irish: cruitire — Person who plays the harp
- Italian: arpista — Person who plays the harp
- Latin: fidicen — Person who plays the harp
- Lithuanian: arfininkas — Person who plays the harp
- Māori: kaiwhakatangi hāpa — Person who plays the harp
- Polish: harfista — Person who plays the harp
- Polish: harfistka — Person who plays the harp
- Portuguese: harpista — Person who plays the harp
- Romani: arpári — Person who plays the harp
- Romanian: harpist — Person who plays the harp
- Romanian: harpistă — Person who plays the harp
- Russian: арфи́ст (arfíst) — Person who plays the harp
- Russian: арфи́стка (arfístka) — Person who plays the harp
- Scottish Gaelic: clàrsair — Person who plays the harp
- Spanish: arpista — Person who plays the harp
- Swedish: harpist — Person who plays the harp
- Welsh: telynor — Person who plays the harp
- Welsh: telynores — Person who plays the harp