Xylophone

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 See also 2 French 2.1 Noun 3 German 3.1 Noun

English

Etymology

From Greek xylon, wood, and phóné sound

Noun

xylophone

1. A musical instrument made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drum-stick like hammer.

   All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

Translations

• Danish: xylofon c
• Dutch: xylofoon m
• French: xylophone m
• German: Xylophon n
• Hebrew: קסילופון m
• Italian: xilofono m
• Romanica: xylophono m
• Russian: ксилофон m (ksilofon)
• Slovak: xylofón m

See also

• glockenspiel
• marimba
• vibraphone
• Wikipedia article on the xylophone

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French

Noun

xylophone m

1. xylophone

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German

Noun

Xylophone n

1. plural of Xylophon.