oboe

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• ō'bō
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈəʊbəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈoʊboʊ/
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• rhymes with -əʊbəʊ
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• obsolete: ō'boi
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• obsolete: /ˈoʊbɔɪ/
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• CMU ARPABET: OW1 B OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hobo — wind instrument
• Arabic: أُوبُوَا (ʔūbuwā) — wind instrument
• Armenian: հոբոյ (hoboy) — wind instrument
• Basque: oboe — wind instrument
• Belarusian: габо́й (habój) — wind instrument
• Breton: oboell — wind instrument
• Bulgarian: обой (oboj) — wind instrument
• Catalan: oboè — wind instrument
• Chinese Cantonese: 雙簧管 /双簧管 (soeng1 wong4 gun2) — wind instrument
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙簧管 /双簧管 (shuānghuángguǎn) — wind instrument
• Wu Chinese: 雙簧管 /双簧管 (1saon-waon-kuoe) — wind instrument
• Ngazidja Comorian: ndzumari — wind instrument
• Czech: hoboj — wind instrument
• Danish: obo — wind instrument
• Dutch: hobo — wind instrument
• Esperanto: hobojo — wind instrument
• Estonian: oboe — wind instrument
• Faroese: obo — wind instrument
• Finnish: oboe — wind instrument
• French: hautbois — wind instrument
• Galician: óboe — wind instrument
• Georgian: ჰობოი (hoboi) — wind instrument
• German: Oboe — wind instrument
• Gilbertese: oboe — wind instrument
• Greek: όμποε (ómpoe) — wind instrument
• Greek: οξύαυλος (oxýavlos) — wind instrument
• Hawaiian: puhi ʻohe ʻopo — wind instrument
• Hebrew: אבוב (abúv) — wind instrument
• Hungarian: oboa — wind instrument
• Icelandic: óbó — wind instrument
• Ido: hoboyo — wind instrument
• Indonesian: obo — wind instrument
• Interlingua: oboe — wind instrument
• Irish: óbó — wind instrument
• Italian: oboe — wind instrument
• Japanese: オーボエ (ōboe) — wind instrument
• Korean: 오보에 (obo'e) — wind instrument
• Latvian: oboja — wind instrument
• Lithuanian: obojus — wind instrument
• Luxembourgish: hautbois — wind instrument
• Macedonian: обоа (oboa) — wind instrument
• Manx: obo — wind instrument
• Māori: rehu matangi — wind instrument
• Māori: pūtōiri — wind instrument
• Mongolian: ᠵᠢᠮᠪᠦᠬᠦᠷ (ǰimbükür) — wind instrument
• Mongolian: жимбүүр (žimbüür) — wind instrument
• Norwegian Bokmål: obo — wind instrument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: obo — wind instrument
• Occitan: clarin — wind instrument
• Occitan: autbòi — wind instrument
• Persian: ابوا — wind instrument
• Persian: قرهنی — wind instrument
• Polish: obój — wind instrument
• Portuguese: oboé — wind instrument
• Romanian: oboi — wind instrument
• Russian: гобо́й (gobój) — wind instrument
• Scottish Gaelic: òboidh — wind instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: обоа — wind instrument
• Serbo-Croatian: oboa — wind instrument
• Slovak: hoboj — wind instrument
• Slovene: oboa — wind instrument
• Lower Sorbian: oboa — wind instrument
• Spanish: oboe — wind instrument
• Swahili: nzumari ndogo — wind instrument
• Swedish: oboe — wind instrument
• Tagalog: obo — wind instrument
• Turkish: obua — wind instrument
• Ukrainian: гобо́й (hobój) — wind instrument
• Uyghur: گوبوي (goboy) — wind instrument
• Vietnamese: kèn ôboa — wind instrument
• Welsh: obo — wind instrument
• Yiddish: אָבאָע (oboe) — wind instrument