Where did you put the plectrum?
Source: tatoeba (8051320)
Plectrum
//ˈplɛk.tɹəm//
Synonyms for "plectrum" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
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2 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
3 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesused for
1 entriesTranslations
76 translations across 48 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πλῆκτρον noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Arabic
1 entries- ريشة noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mizrab noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Belarusian
2 entries- медыя́тар noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- пле́ктар noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Breton
1 entries- skraberig noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Bulgarian
1 entries- перце noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Catalan
1 entries- pua noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 撥子 /拨子 noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Czech
1 entries- trsátko noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Danish
1 entries- plekter noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Dutch
1 entries- plectrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Dutch Low Saxon
1 entries- plektrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Esperanto
1 entries- plektro noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Estonian
1 entries- plektron noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Faroese
1 entries- plektari noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Finnish
3 entries- kynsi noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- plektra noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- pleku noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
French
4 entries- médiator noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- onglet noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- pick noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- plectre noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
German
2 entries- Plektron noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- Plektrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Greek
2 entries- πέννα noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- πλήκτρο noun (anatomical part)
Hebrew
1 entries- מפרט noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Hungarian
1 entries- pengető noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Icelandic
1 entries- nögl noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Italian
1 entries- plettro noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Japanese
1 entries- ピック noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Korean
1 entries- 피크 noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Latin
1 entries- plectrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Latvian
1 entries- braucis noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Lithuanian
1 entries- brauktukas noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Macedonian
1 entries- перце noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Malay
1 entries- plektrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Navajo
1 entries- beeʼałtązhí noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- plekter noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- plekter noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Occitan
1 entries- plèctre noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Old English
1 entries- næġl noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- تازیانه noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- زخمه noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- مضراب noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Persian
3 entries- زخمه noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- سکافه noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- مضراب noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Polish
2 entries- kostka noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- plektron noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Portuguese
2 entries- palheta noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- plectro noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Russian
2 entries- медиа́тор noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- плектр noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- plektrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- trzalica noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- trzaljka noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- плектрум noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Spanish
3 entries- plectro noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- púa noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- vitela noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Swedish
1 entries- plektrum noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Tagalog
2 entries- plektro noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- puwa noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Thai
1 entries- ปิ๊ก noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Turkish
4 entries- mızrap noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- pena noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- plektrum noun (anatomical part)
- tezene noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Ukrainian
2 entries- медіа́тор noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
- плектр noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Yiddish
1 entries- ביינדל noun (music: small piece for plucking strings)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Do you play with a plectrum?
Source: tatoeba (9418609)
Once the concert was over, he gave the plectrum he was using to one of his fans, who got excited and started to cry.
Source: tatoeba (10491006)
For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.
Source: wiktionary
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