harpe

From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē)

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (Ancient Greece) A type of curved weapon or implement, variously described as a sickle, a pruning hook, or a curved sword like a scimitar. In later depictions it became a combination of a straight sword on one side and a curved blade on the other.

From Middle English harpe

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp

• Phrae, hepar, phare, raphe

From Old Danish harpæ, from Old Norse harpa (“harp”), from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare Norwegian Bokmål harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

• IPA^(key): /harpə/, [ˈhɑːb̥ə]

harpe c (singular definite harpen, plural indefinite harper)

1. (music) harp

• “harpe” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁp/

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (music) harp (musical instrument)

• harpiste

harpe

1. inflection of harper:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative
   2. first-person and third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

• “harpe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• phare

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhar.peː/

harpē f (genitive harpēs); first declension

1. a curved sword, scimitar
2. a species of falcon

First declension, Greek type.

• harpe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• harpe in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

harpe f

1. harp, lyre

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: harp

• “harpe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “harpe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• harp

harpe (plural harpes)

1. harp

• English: harp

From Old French harpe, from Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (Jersey) harp

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Compare with Danish harpe, Swedish and Icelandic harpa, German Harfe, Dutch and English harp.

harpe f or m (definite singular harpa or harpen, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

1. (music) a harp

• harpeleik

• “harpe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

harpe f (definite singular harpa, indefinite plural harper, definite plural harpene)

1. (music) harp

• harpeleik

• “harpe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Frankish *harpō, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhar.pə/

harpe f (oblique plural harpes, nominative singular harpe, nominative plural harpes)

1. harp

• harper
• harpere

• Middle French: harpe
  • French: harpe
• Norman: harpe (Jersiais)
• Picard: hârpe (Athois)
• Walloon: ârpe (Forrières)

• IPA^(key): [har.pe]

harpe f pl

1. plural of harpă