English

Noun

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English

Noun

harpe ‎(plural harpes)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of harp

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /harpə/, [ˈhɑːb̥ə]

Noun

harpe c (singular definite harpen, plural indefinite harper)

1. (music) harp

Declension

References

• “harpe” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁp/

Noun

harpe f ‎(plural harpes)

1. (music) harp (musical instrument)

Derived terms

• harpiste

Verb

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

Anagrams

• phare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhar.peː/

Noun

harpē f ‎(genitive harpēs); first declension

1. a curved sword, scimitar

Inflection

First declension, Greek type.

References

• 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

Middle English

Noun

harpe (plural harpes)

1. harp

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

harpe f ‎(plural harpes)

1. (Jersey) harp

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. (music) harp

References

• “harpe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. (music) harp

References

• “harpe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /harpə/

Noun

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

1. harp

Related terms

• harper
• harpere

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [har.pe]

Noun

harpe f pl

1. plural of harpă