Echo was brought up by the Nymphs, and the Muses taught her to play upon the pipe, the flute, the lyre, and the harp, in fact, to excel in every kind of music.
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Lyre
//ˈlaɪ.ɚ//
Synonyms for "lyre" (3 found)
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6 entriesderived
13 entrieshas context
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2 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
55 translations across 47 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- jongarsharki noun (stringed musical instrument)
- sharkë noun (stringed musical instrument)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κιθάρα noun (stringed musical instrument)
- λύρα noun (stringed musical instrument)
- φόρμιγξ noun (stringed musical instrument)
Arabic
1 entries- كِنَّارَة noun (stringed musical instrument)
Armenian
1 entries- քնար noun (stringed musical instrument)
Basque
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лира noun (stringed musical instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Chinese
1 entries- 里拉 noun (stringed musical instrument)
Coptic
2 entries- ⲕⲓⲑⲁⲣⲁ noun (stringed musical instrument)
- ⲗⲩⲣⲁ noun (stringed musical instrument)
Czech
1 entries- lyra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Danish
1 entries- lyre noun (stringed musical instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- lier noun (stringed musical instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- liro noun (stringed musical instrument)
Estonian
1 entries- lüüra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Faroese
1 entries- lýri noun (stringed musical instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- lyyra noun (stringed musical instrument)
French
1 entries- lyre noun (stringed musical instrument)
German
2 entries- Leier noun (stringed musical instrument)
- Lyra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Greek
1 entries- λύρα noun (stringed musical instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- כִּנּוֹר noun (stringed musical instrument)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- árpa noun (stringed musical instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- líra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Icelandic
2 entries- lýra noun (stringed musical instrument)
- lýra noun (lyre-shaped music holder)
Ido
1 entries- liro noun (stringed musical instrument)
Irish
1 entries- lir noun (stringed musical instrument)
Italian
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- ライアー noun (stringed musical instrument)
Latin
1 entries- lyra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- lyra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Occitan
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Old English
1 entries- hearpe noun (stringed musical instrument)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چنك noun (stringed musical instrument)
Persian
2 entries- چنگ noun (stringed musical instrument)
- چنگ رومی noun (stringed musical instrument)
Piedmontese
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Polish
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- liră noun (stringed musical instrument)
Russian
1 entries- ли́ра noun (stringed musical instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- lȋra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- lýra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Swahili
2 entries- kinubi kidogo noun (stringed musical instrument)
- lira noun (stringed musical instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- lyra noun (stringed musical instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- lir noun (stringed musical instrument)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎋𐎐𐎗 noun (stringed musical instrument)
Welsh
1 entries- telyn gron noun (stringed musical instrument)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
His golden lyre long-haired Iopas tunes, / and sings what Atlas taught in loftiest strain.
Source: tatoeba (6800350)
Take from my frozen hands thy hands of fire, And of my heart-strings make thee a new lyre, That in thy music men may find my voice, And something of me still on earth rejoice.
Source: tatoeba (7547815)
Orpheus was the son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. He was presented by his father with a Lyre and taught to play upon it, which he did to such perfection that nothing could withstand the charm of his music.
Source: tatoeba (7547818)
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