symphony

English

Etymology

From Middle English symphonye, from Old French simphonie, from Latin symphonia, from Ancient Greek συμφωνία (sumphōnía). By surface analysis, sym- +‎ -phony. Doublet of sinfonia, symphonia, tsampouna, and zampogna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.fə.ni/, [ˈsɪɱ.fə.ni]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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symphony (countable and uncountable, plural symphonies)

1. An extended piece of music of sophisticated structure, usually for orchestra.

   classical symphony

   compose a symphony

   full symphony orchestra

   The orchestra performed Beethoven’s Fifth symphony.

2. (music) An instrumental introduction or termination to a vocal composition.
3. Harmony in music or colour, or a harmonious combination of elements.

   She described the city at night as a symphony of lights and sounds.

4. (US, informal) A symphony orchestra.

Derived terms

• city symphony
• pocket symphony
• symphonist

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဆင်ဖိုနီ (hcanghpuini)
• → Japanese: シンフォニー (shinfonī)
• → Khmer: ស៊ីមហ្វូនី (siimfounii)
• → Malay: simfoni
• → Punjabi: ਸਿੰਫਨੀ (simphani)
• → Thai: ซิมโฟนี (sim-foo-nîi)
• → Welsh: symffoni

Translations

piece of orchestral music

Albanian: simfoni (sq) f Arabic: سِيمْفُونِيَّة f (sīmfūniyya), سِيمْفُونِي m (sīmfūnī) Armenian: սիմֆոնիա (hy) (simfonia), համանուագ (hamanuag) (Western Armenian) Azerbaijani: simfoniya Belarusian: сімфо́нія f (simfónija) Bengali: সিম্ফনি (bn) (śimphoni) Bulgarian: симфо́ния (bg) f (simfónija) Burmese: ဆင်ဖိုနီ (hcanghpuini) Catalan: simfonia (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (gaau1 hoeng2 kuk1) Hokkien: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (zh-min-nan) (kau-hiáng-khek) Mandarin: 交響曲 / 交响曲 (zh) (jiāoxiǎngqǔ) Czech: symfonie (cs) f Danish: symfoni c Dutch: symfonie (nl) f Esperanto: simfonio Estonian: sümfoonia Farefare: simfonia Finnish: sinfonia (fi) French: symphonie (fr) f Friulian: sinfonie f Georgian: სიმფონია (simponia) German: Sinfonie (de) f, Symphonie (de) f Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía) Hebrew: סִימפוֹנִיָה (he) f (simfónya) Hindi: सिंफ़नी f (sĩfanī), सिम्फ़नी f (simfanī), स्वर की समता m (svar kī samtā) Hungarian: szimfónia (hu) Icelandic: sinfónía f Irish: siansa m Italian: sinfonia (it) f Japanese: 交響曲 (ja) (こうきょうきょく, kōkyōkyoku) Kazakh: симфония (simfoniä) Khmer: ស៊ីមហ្វូនី (siimfounii) Korean: 교향곡(交響曲) (ko) (gyohyanggok), 심포니 (ko) (simponi) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: senfonî (ku) Kyrgyz: симфония (ky) (simfoniya) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Latvian: simfonija f, simfōnija f (obsolete spelling) Lithuanian: simfonija f Macedonian: симфонија f (simfonija) Malay: simfoni Maori: puoro tuatini Mongolian: Cyrillic: симфони (mn) (simfoni) Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠮᠹᠣᠨᠢ (simfoni) Norwegian: Bokmål: symfoni m Nynorsk: symfoni m Pashto: سمفوني f (samfoni), سيمفوني f (simfoni) Persian: سمفونی (fa) (samfoni) Piedmontese: sinfonìa f Polish: symfonia (pl) f Portuguese: sinfonia (pt) f Punjabi: ਸਿੰਫਨੀ (simphnī) Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: simfonie (ro) f Russian: симфо́ния (ru) f (simfónija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сѝмфо̄нија f Roman: sìmfōnija (sh) f Slovak: symfónia f Slovene: simfonija f Spanish: sinfonía (es) f Swedish: symfoni (sv) c Tajik: симфония (simfoniya) Tatar: симфония (simfoniyä) Thai: ซิมโฟนี (sim-foo-nîi) Turkish: senfoni (tr) Turkmen: simfoniýa Ukrainian: симфо́нія (uk) f (symfónija) Urdu: ہَم نَوائی (ham-navāī), سِمْفَنی f (simfanī) Uyghur: سىمفونىيە (simfoniye) Uzbek: simfoniya (uz) Vietnamese: giao hưởng (vi) (交響) Volapük: sümfon, kobolestukot, (children) cilasümfon Welsh: symffoni f Yiddish: סימפֿאָניע f (simfonye)

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