Theremin: The world's first electronic musical instrument, made by Russian physicist Lev Sergeivitch Termen in 1920.
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Theremin
//ˈθɛə.ɹəˌmɪn//
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40 translations across 31 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- տերմեն noun (electronic musical instrument)
Basque
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 泰勒明電子琴 /泰勒明电子琴 noun (electronic musical instrument)
- 特雷門 /特雷门 noun (electronic musical instrument)
Czech
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Danish
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- teremino noun (electronic musical instrument)
Estonian
1 entries- teremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
French
3 entries- thereminvox noun (electronic musical instrument)
- thérémine noun (electronic musical instrument)
- éthérophone noun (electronic musical instrument)
Galician
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
German
1 entries- Theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Greek
1 entries- θέρεμιν noun (electronic musical instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- teremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Icelandic
1 entries- þeremín noun (electronic musical instrument)
Italian
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Japanese
2 entries- テルミン noun (electronic musical instrument)
- テレミン noun (electronic musical instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- теремин noun (electronic musical instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Polish
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- teremim noun (electronic musical instrument)
Russian
1 entries- терменво́кс noun (electronic musical instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- terèmīn noun (electronic musical instrument)
- терѐмӣн noun (electronic musical instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- teremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
Spanish
2 entries- eterófono noun (electronic musical instrument)
- theremín noun (electronic musical instrument)
Swedish
4 entries- aetherophone noun (electronic musical instrument)
- teremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
- theremin noun (electronic musical instrument)
- thereminvox noun (electronic musical instrument)
Thai
1 entries- เธรามิน noun (electronic musical instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- терменвокс noun (electronic musical instrument)
Sample sentences
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After playing a theremin, all other instruments make you feel like you're in a straitjacket.
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I remember that Lenin listened to theremin in 1920 (but of course I wasn't there in person at that time).
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Tom plays the theremin.
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