Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κιθάρη ‎(kithárē) (Ionic)

Noun

κῐθάρα • ‎(kithára) f ‎(genitive κιθάρας); first declension

1. lyre
   1. lyre-playing
2. (in the plural) the ribs of the horse

Inflection

Synonyms

• (lyre): λύρα ‎(lúra), φόρμιγξ ‎(phórminx)
• (ribs): κίθαρος ‎(kítharos)

Descendants

• Latin: cithara
  • Arabic: قِيثَارَة ‎(qīṯāra)
    • Andalusian Arabic: قيثارة ‎(qitara)
      • Spanish: guitarra
        • Cebuano: gitara
        • English: guitar
          • Cantonese: 結他 ‎(git3 taa1)
          • Gujarati: ગિટાર ‎(giṭār)
          • Hindi: गिटार ‎(giṭār)
          • Irish: giotár
          • Min Nan: 吉他 ‎(gih-tah)
            • Mandarin: 吉他 ‎(jítā)
        • French: guitare
          • Central Franconian: Jitta
        • German: Gitarre
        • Tagalog: gitara
    • Italian: chitarra
      • Greek: κιθάρα ‎(kithára)
  • Danish: citer
  • Middle Dutch: cythaer
    • Dutch: citer
      • Javanese: ꦱꦶꦠꦼꦂ ‎(siter)
  • English: cithara
  • French: cithare, cistre
    • English: cither
  • Italian: cetra
  • Old High German: zitera, cithara
    • German: Zither
      • English: zither
      • Swedish: cittra
  • Polish: gitara
    • Russian: гита́ра ‎(gitára)
      • Armenian: գիթառ ‎(gitʿaṙ)
      • Yupik: kitalaq
  • Portuguese: cítara
  • Spanish: cítara
• Classical Syriac: ܩܝܬܪܐ
• Old Armenian: կիթառ ‎(kitʿaṙ)

References

• κιθάρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κιθάρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κιθάρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2788”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • harp idem, page 386.
  • lyre idem, page 506.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 694f

Greek

Etymology

From Italian chitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة ‎(qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα ‎(kithára).

Noun

κιθάρα • ‎(kithára) f ‎(plural κιθάρες)

1. guitar

Declension

Derived terms

External links

• κιθάρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el