guitarra

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

1. (music) guitar

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “guitarra”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “guitarra”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítara and cistre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈta.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡiˈta.ra]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ara

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

1. guitar

• “guitarra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara and cítola.

• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: gui‧ta‧rra

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music) guitar

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

1. guitarist

   Synonym: guitarrista

• “guitarra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “guitarra”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

guitarra (plural guitarras)

1. guitar

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra.

guitarra

1. guitar

   Synonym: yutnu tée yaa

• Aguilar Feria, Martimiana; García Rojas, Vicente; Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017), Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 30–31

• gitarra

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítola.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/
• Rhymes: -ara

guitarra f (plural *guitarras)

1. (music) classical guitar
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Da Jmagiem do t̃rẽyro piar” (chapter 210), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 90r:

     ⁊ eſte donzel tĩía todas las mañas de eſtormẽtos. giga. Arpa. Cinfonia. Rota. Viuela. Armonoja. Salteẏro. Çitola. Gitarra. Ergõos. Seſtro. Caño.

     [Et este donzel tĩía todas las manhas de estormentos: giga, arpa, cinfonia, rota, viuela, armonoja, salteyro, cítola, guitarra, ergõos, sestro, canho.]

     And this donzel had all sorts of instruments: giga, harp, hurdy-gurdy[?], rotte, vihuela, [?], [?], zither, guitar, [?], lute[?], flute[?].

• Fala: guitarra
• Galician: guitarra
• Portuguese: guitarra

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “guitarra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “guitarra”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “guitarra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• guitara

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cedra.

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music) classical guitar
   • 1376–c. 1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, “De la informacion, insstruccion ho establimiento et començamiento de religion” (chapter 76), in [Rams de Flores o Libro de Actoridades], page 164c; republished as Conrado Guardiola Alcover, editor, Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1998, →ISBN, pages 222–223:

     Aurás por encuentro la companya de los proffectas deuallantes de la altura, et delant ellos es el salterio et la viola et la guitarra et la rabeua

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Spanish: guitarra

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “guitarra”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 284

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cistre.

• Rhymes: -aʁɐ
• Hyphenation: gui‧tar‧ra

guitarra f (plural guitarras) (music)

1. classical guitar

   Synonyms: guitarra clássica, (Brazil) violão

2. electric guitar

   Synonym: guitarra elétrica

• → Konkani: गितार (gitār)

• “guitarra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “guitarra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• ghitarra (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran)
• ghitara (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music, Puter, Vallader) guitar

Inherited from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cedra.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. guitar
2. guitarfish

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

1. guitarist

   Synonym: guitarrista

• “guitarra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025