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Translation

guitar

Word origin

From Spanish guitarra, taken through Arabic qitara from Greek kithara, a lyre-like instrument. English guitar arrived by the same Spanish route, and zither is the Greek word borrowed a second time through German.

Origin
Spanish
Root
kithara
English cognates
guitar, zither

Examples

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He plays the guitar every evening.

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The sound of the guitar filled the room.

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We sang and played guitar until morning.

You , play the guitar, exactly as in English; a player is a o. The stress falls on the second-to-last syllable, as it always does, so it is gi-TA-ro. Esperanto singalongs at a run on guitars, which is why the word climbs so high in a corpus of movement writing.

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This word is part of lesson 32.