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ukulele

ukulele

See also: ukulélé and ʻukulele

English

A ukulele.

Alternative forms

ukelele, eukaleli (obs), ukalele (rare)

Noun

ukulele ‎(plural ukuleles)

(music) A small four-stringed guitar.

Derived terms

Translations

small four-stringed guitar

Catalan: ukulele (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 烏克麗麗 (zh), 乌克丽丽 (zh) ‎(wūkèlìlì), 夏威夷吉他 ‎(Xiàwēiyí jítā)
Esperanto: ukulelo
Finnish: ukulele (fi)
French: ukulélé (fr) m
German: Ukulele (de) f
Hebrew: יוקליילי
Irish: ucailéile f
Italian: ukulele (it) m, f

Japanese: ウクレレ (ja) ‎(ukurere)
Latvian: ukulele (lv) f, havajiešu ģitāra f
Marathi: उकुलेले m ‎(ukulele)
Polish: ukulele (pl) n
Portuguese: ukulele m, ukelele m
Russian: укуле́ле (ru) n ‎(ukuléle), гава́йская гита́ра f ‎(gavájskaja gitára)
Spanish: ukelele (es)
Swedish: ukulele (sv) c
Volapük: kuelel
Welsh: iwcalili m, f

Finnish

Etymology

Noun

ukulele

(music) ukulele

Declension

Inflection of ukulele (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative		ukulele	ukulelet
genitive		ukulelen	ukulelejen
partitive		ukulelea	ukuleleja
illative		ukuleleen	ukuleleihin
		singular	plural
nominative		ukulele	ukulelet
accusative	nom.	ukulele	ukulelet
accusative	gen.	ukulelen	ukulelet
genitive		ukulelen	ukulelejen ukulelein^rare
partitive		ukulelea	ukuleleja
inessive		ukulelessa	ukuleleissa
elative		ukulelesta	ukuleleista
illative		ukuleleen	ukuleleihin
adessive		ukulelella	ukuleleilla
ablative		ukulelelta	ukuleleilta
allative		ukulelelle	ukuleleille
essive		ukulelena	ukuleleina
translative		ukuleleksi	ukuleleiksi
instructive		—	ukulelein
abessive		ukuleletta	ukuleleitta
comitative		—	ukuleleineen

Portuguese

Alternative forms

uculele (rare)
ukelele, uquelele

Noun

ukulele m (plural ukuleles)

(music) ukulele (small Hawaiian four-stringed guitar)