harpa

• hørpa

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Icelandic harpa, Norwegian and Danish harpe, Swedish harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɹ̥pa/

  Rhymes: -aɹ̥pa

harpa f (genitive singular harpu, plural harpur)

1. harp

• munnharpa

• Homophones: harpas, harpât

harpa

1. third-person singular past historic of harper

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Faroese hørpa, harpa, Norwegian and Danish harpe, Swedish harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhar̥pa/

  Rhymes: -ar̥pa

  Homophones: Harpa

harpa f (genitive singular hörpu, nominative plural hörpur)

1. harp

• slagharpa

Borrowed from Frankish *harpā. First attested in Fortunatus, 7th c. (plaudat tibi barbarus harpa).

harpa f (genitive harpae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. harp

• harpator [c. 785 CE, Lex Frisionum]
• harpō [c. 785 CE, Lex Frisionum]

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: harpe
    • Middle French: harpe
      • French: harpe
        • → Romanian: harpă
    • Norman: harpe (Jersiais)
    • Picard: hârpe (Athois)
    • Walloon: ârpe (Forrières)
  • Old Occitan: arpa
    • Catalan: arpa
    • Occitan: urpa (Aranese), arpa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: arpa
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arpa
    • Portuguese: harpa
    • Galician: arpa
  • Spanish: arpa
• Italo-Romance
  • Italian: arpa
    • → Sardinian: arpa

• harpen

harpa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of harpe

harpa f

1. definite singular of harpe

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

harpa f

1. harp

• Swedish: harpa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arpa, from Late Latin harpa, from Frankish *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• Hyphenation: har‧pa

harpa f (plural harpas)

1. harp (musical instrument)

• claviarpa (“claviharp”)

• “harpa” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

• IPA^(key): [ˈharpa]

harpa f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of harpă

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾpa/ [ˈaɾ.pa]
• Rhymes: -aɾpa
• Syllabification: har‧pa

harpa f (plural harpas)

1. Rare spelling of arpa.

• “harpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Swedish harpa, from Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Norwegian and Danish harpe, Icelandic harpa, Faroese hørpa, harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

harpa c

1. (music) harp

• → Finnish: harppu

• “harpa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎ (in Swedish), 1937
• harpa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)
• harpa in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker