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percussion_instrument

percussion instrument

English

Noun

percussion instrument ‎(plural percussion instruments)

(music) An instrument in which the sound is produced by striking, scraping or shaking an object.

Translations

type of instrument

Armenian: հարվածային գործիք ‎(harvacayin gorcikʿ)
Catalan: instrument de percussió (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 打擊樂器 (zh), 打击乐器 (zh) ‎(dǎjī yuèqì, dǎjí yuèqì)
Dutch: slaginstrument (nl) n
Esperanto: perkutinstrumento
Finnish: lyömäsoitin (fi)
French: instrument de percussion m
German: Schlaginstrument (de) n
Hungarian: ütőhangszer (hu)

Icelandic: slagverkshljóðfæri n
Italian: strumento a percussione
Japanese: 打楽器 (ja) ‎(だがっき, dagakki), パーカッション ‎(pākasshon)
Macedonian: ударен инструмент m ‎(údaren instrumént)
Persian: ساز کوبه‌ای ‎(sâz-e kube'i)
Polish: instrument perkusyjny m
Portuguese: instrumento de percussão m
Russian: уда́рный инструме́нт m ‎(udárnyj instrumént)
Slovene: tolkalo (sl) n
Tagalog: linggalang panugtog