One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
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Sousaphone
//ˈsuːsəˌfoʊn//
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36 translations across 31 languages.
Asturian
2 entries- sousafón noun (brass instrument)
- sousáfono noun (brass instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- sousàfon noun (brass instrument)
Czech
1 entries- suzafon noun (brass instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- sousafoon noun (brass instrument)
Dutch Low Saxon
1 entries- sousafoon noun (brass instrument)
Esperanto
2 entries- marŝtubjo noun (brass instrument)
- suzafono noun (brass instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- sousafoni noun (brass instrument)
French
1 entries- soubassophone noun (brass instrument)
German
2 entries- Sousafon noun (brass instrument)
- Sousaphon noun (brass instrument)
Hebrew
2 entries- סוּזָפוֹן noun (brass instrument)
- סוזאפון noun (brass instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- szouszafon noun (brass instrument)
Irish
1 entries- súsafón noun (brass instrument)
Italian
1 entries- susafono noun (brass instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- スーザフォン noun (brass instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 수자폰 noun (brass instrument)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Sousaphon noun (brass instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- сузафон noun (brass instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sousafon noun (brass instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sousafon noun (brass instrument)
Occitan
1 entries- sousafòn noun (brass instrument)
Persian
1 entries- سوسافون noun (brass instrument)
Polish
1 entries- suzaphon noun (brass instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- sousafone noun (brass instrument)
Russian
1 entries- сузафо́н noun (brass instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sùzafōn noun (brass instrument)
- су̀зафо̄н noun (brass instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- susáfono noun (brass instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- sousafon noun (brass instrument)
Thai
1 entries- ซูซาโฟน noun (brass instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- suzafon noun (brass instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сузафон noun (brass instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kèn sousa noun (brass instrument)
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