Heck, with oboe players there are those who, rather than search for a reed that suits them, find it faster to make their own.
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Oboe
//ˈəʊbəʊ//
Synonyms for "oboe" (110 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (55)
Noun(1 words)
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2 entriesat location
4 entriesderived
12 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
11 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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16 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 66 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- hobo noun (wind instrument)
Arabic
1 entries- أُوبُوَا noun (wind instrument)
Armenian
1 entries- հոբոյ noun (wind instrument)
Basque
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Belarusian
1 entries- габо́й noun (wind instrument)
Breton
1 entries- oboell noun (wind instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- обой noun (wind instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- oboè noun (wind instrument)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 雙簧管 /双簧管 noun (wind instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 雙簧管 /双簧管 noun (wind instrument)
Czech
1 entries- hoboj noun (wind instrument)
Danish
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- hobo noun (wind instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- hobojo noun (wind instrument)
Estonian
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Faroese
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
French
1 entries- hautbois noun (wind instrument)
Galician
1 entries- óboe noun (wind instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰობოი noun (wind instrument)
German
1 entries- Oboe noun (wind instrument)
Gilbertese
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Greek
2 entries- οξύαυλος noun (wind instrument)
- όμποε noun (wind instrument)
Hawaiian
1 entries- puhi ʻohe ʻopo noun (wind instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- אבוב noun (wind instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- oboa noun (wind instrument)
Icelandic
1 entries- óbó noun (wind instrument)
Ido
1 entries- hoboyo noun (wind instrument)
Indonesian
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Interlingua
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Irish
1 entries- óbó noun (wind instrument)
Italian
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- オーボエ noun (wind instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 오보에 noun (wind instrument)
Latvian
1 entries- oboja noun (wind instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- obojus noun (wind instrument)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- oboa noun (wind instrument)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- hautbois noun (wind instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- обоа noun (wind instrument)
Manx
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Mongolian
2 entries- жимбүүр noun (wind instrument)
- ᠵᠢᠮᠪᠦᠬᠦᠷ noun (wind instrument)
Māori
2 entries- pūtōiri noun (wind instrument)
- rehu matangi noun (wind instrument)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ndzumari noun (wind instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Occitan
2 entries- autbòi noun (wind instrument)
- clarin noun (wind instrument)
Persian
2 entries- ابوا noun (wind instrument)
- قرهنی noun (wind instrument)
Polish
1 entries- obój noun (wind instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- oboé noun (wind instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- oboi noun (wind instrument)
Russian
1 entries- гобо́й noun (wind instrument)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- òboidh noun (wind instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- oboa noun (wind instrument)
- обоа noun (wind instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- hoboj noun (wind instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- oboa noun (wind instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Swahili
1 entries- nzumari ndogo noun (wind instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- oboe noun (wind instrument)
Tagalog
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- obua noun (wind instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гобо́й noun (wind instrument)
Uyghur
1 entries- گوبوي noun (wind instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kèn ôboa noun (wind instrument)
Welsh
1 entries- obo noun (wind instrument)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 雙簧管 /双簧管 noun (wind instrument)
Yiddish
1 entries- אָבאָע noun (wind instrument)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I need to get my oboe repaired.
Source: tatoeba (937388)
I guess it's impossible for me to learn how to play the oboe.
Source: tatoeba (953464)
I've always wanted to learn to play the oboe.
Source: tatoeba (953876)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.