guitarra

See also: Guitarra

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣiˈtara/ [ɣiˈt̪a.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

1. (music) guitar

Further reading

• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “guitarra”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “guitarra”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítara and cistre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ɡiˈta.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ɡiˈta.ra]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ara

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)

1. guitar

Derived terms

• guitarra acústica
• guitarra elèctrica
• guitarrer
• guitarrista
• guitarró

Further reading

• “guitarra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא (qīṯārā), borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of cítara and cítola.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ħiˈtara/ [ħiˈt̪a.rɐ]

• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music) guitar

Derived terms

• guitarra acústica
• guitarra clásica
• guitarra eléctrica
• guitarrista

Noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

1. guitarist

   Synonym: guitarrista

Further reading

• “guitarra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “guitarra”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Interlingua

Noun

guitarra (plural guitarras)

1. guitar

Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.

Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.

Aramaic קיתרא (qīṯārā)bor.

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.

Old Spanish guitarra

Spanish guitarrabor.

Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec guitarra

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra.

Noun

guitarra

1. guitar

   Synonym: yutnu tée yaa

References

• Aguilar Feria, Martimiana; García Rojas, Vicente; Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017), Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 30–31

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• gitarra

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra). Doublet of cítola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/
• Rhymes: -ara

Noun

guitarra f (plural *guitarras)

1. (music) classical guitar
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Da Jmagiem do t̃rẽyro piar” (chapter 210), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 90r:

     ⁊ eſte donzel tĩía todas las mañas de eſtormẽtos. giga. Arpa. Cinfonia. Rota. Viuela. Armonoja. Salteẏro. Çitola. Gitarra. Ergõos. Seſtro. Caño.

     [Et este donzel tĩía todas las manhas de estormentos: giga, arpa, cinfonia, rota, viuela, armonoja, salteyro, cítola, guitarra, ergõos, sestro, canho.]

     And this donzel had all sorts of instruments: giga, harp, hurdy-gurdy[?], rotte, vihuela, [?], [?], zither, guitar, [?], lute[?], flute[?].

Descendants

• Fala: guitarra
• Galician: guitarra
• Portuguese: guitarra
  • → Konkani: गितार (gitār)
  • → Chichewa: gitala

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “guitarra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “guitarra”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “guitarra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• guitara

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא (qīṯārā), borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of cedra.

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music) classical guitar
   • 1376–c. 1396, Juan Fernández de Heredia, “De la informacion, insstruccion ho establimiento et començamiento de religion” (chapter 76), in [Rams de Flores o Libro de Actoridades], page 164c; republished as Conrado Guardiola Alcover, editor, Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1998, →ISBN, pages 222–223:

     Aurás por encuentro la companya de los proffectas deuallantes de la altura, et delant ellos es el salterio et la viola et la guitarra et la rabeua

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Spanish: guitarra (see there for further descendants)
• → Old French: guiterne, guiterre
  • Middle French: guiterne, guiterre
    • → Middle English: giterne, gyterne, geteron, geterne, getyrne (especially Northern or North Midland)
      • English: gittern
        • ⇒ English: cittern
    • → French: guiterne (learned)
• → Middle French: guitare, guitarre
  • French: guitare, guithare (obsolete)
    • → Central Franconian: Jitta
    • → Chadian Arabic: قتار (gitār)
    • → Hijazi Arabic: قيتار (gītār)
    • → Vietnamese: ghi-ta

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “guitarra”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 284

Portuguese

guitarra

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא (qīṯārā), borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cistre.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.χɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁa/ [ɡiˈta.ha]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/

• Rhymes: -aʁɐ
• Hyphenation: gui‧tar‧ra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras) (music)

1. classical guitar

   Synonyms: guitarra clássica, (Brazil) violão

2. electric guitar

   Synonym: guitarra elétrica

Related terms

• guitarra elétrica
• guitarrear
• guitarrista

Descendants

• → Konkani: गितार (gitār)
• → Chichewa: gitala

Further reading

• “guitarra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “guitarra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romansh

Alternative forms

• ghitarra (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran)
• ghitara (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. (music, Puter, Vallader) guitar

Derived terms

• guitarrist
• guitarrista

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.

Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā)bor.

Aramaic קיתרא (qīṯārā)bor.

Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra)bor.

Old Spanish guitarra

Spanish guitarra

Inherited from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא (qīṯārā), borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā), from Pre-Greek. Doublet of cítara, cítola, and cedra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)

1. guitar
2. guitarfish

Derived terms

• guitarra acústica f
• guitarra clásica f
• guitarra eléctrica f
• guitarra española
• guitarrista
• guitarrón m

Related terms

• cítara

Descendants

• → Cebuano: gitara
• → English: guitar, guittar (obsolete), gittar (eye dialect)
  • Tok Pisin: gita
  • → Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)
  • → Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)
  • → Cantonese: 結他 / 结他 (git3 taa1)
  • → Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)
  • → Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)
  • → Irish: giotár
  • → Isoko: igita
  • → Japanese: ギター (gitā)
    • → Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)
    • → Hokkien: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)
  • → Korean: 기타 (gita)
  • → Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)
  • → Mokilese: kida
  • → Scottish Gaelic: giotàr
  • → Sidamo: giitare
  • → Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)
  • → Ulithian: (likely) giita
• → German: Gitarre
  • → Hungarian: gitár
• → Latvian: ģitāra
• → Macedonian: гитара (gitara)
• → Polish: gitara
• → Russian: гитара (gitara)
  • → Mongolian: гитар (gitar)
• → Serbo-Croatian: гитара
• → Tagalog: gitara
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: qui̱töra
• → Translingual: Guitarra

Noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)

1. guitarist

   Synonym: guitarrista

Further reading

• “guitarra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025