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

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /aʁp/

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Inherited from Middle French harpe, from Old French harpe, arpe, from Late Latin harpa, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Cognate with Occitan arpa, Italian arpa, Spanish arpa, Portuguese harpa, etc.

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (music) A triangular musical instrument played by plucking strings with the fingers; a harp.
2. Any member of the sea snail mollusc family Harpidae; a harp snail.
3. Ellipsis of harpe de David (“David's harp; metaphorical, poetic inspiration; a calming force”).

• → Romanian: harpă
• → Turkish: arp

Uncertain; likely deverbal from harper (“to seize; grasp violently”), of High German origin. Alternatively, borrowed from Occitan arpa (“claw, grasp”), from Latin harpe (“sickle, bird of prey”), and conflated with harper, producing a word-initial h-.

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (hunting) A dog's claw
2. (slang, by extension) finger
3. (construction) Ellipsis of harpe de fer (“bent piece of iron used to mate corner posts of timber framing to a wall”).
4. (architecture, masonry) A stone left protruding from a wall at regular intervals so that it can be interlocked with a corresponding stone on another wall to form quoining.

   Synonym: pierre d'attente

5. (historical) A type of portcullis.

harpe

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

• “harpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• phare

From Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon, scimitar”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhar.peː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.pe]

harpē f (genitive harpēs); first declension

1. a curved sickle-shaped sword, scimitar
2. bird of prey, hawk, falcon, tiercel or goshawk (falco gentilis)

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

• Catalan: arpa
• Italian: arpa
• Occitan: arpa
• Sicilian: arpa

• “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

• Dutch: harp

• “harpe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “harpe”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• harp

harpe (plural harpes)

1. (music) 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.

• hørpe (dialectal)

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

• IPA^(key): /hɑːrpe/

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

1. (music) harp

• harpeleik
• munnharpe
• taglharpe

• “harpe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• arpe

Inherited from Latin harpa, borrowed from Frankish *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɾpə/

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

1. (music) harp (stringed musical instrument)
2. (by extension, of an animal) The lower part of the breast, the outline of which appears in some animals like the curve of a harp.

• harper
• harpere

• Middle French: harpe
  • French: harpe
    • → Romanian: harpă
    • → Turkish: arp
• Norman: harpe (Jersiais)
• Picard: hârpe (Athois)
• Walloon: ârpe (Forrières)

• IPA^(key): [ˈhar.pe]

harpe f pl

1. plural of harpă

Borrowed from French harpe

• IPA^(key): /haʀp/

harpe f (plural harpes)

1. (music) harp