# musical
## English
### Alternative forms

* musicall (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) +‎ -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

### Adjective

musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)
* Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
    musical proportion
    musical instruments
* Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
    She had a musical voice.
* Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
    having a musical ear
    The child is musical.
* Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
** 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
** 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 341:Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
** 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 441:“Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
** 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 14:Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.
** 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 138:Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.

#### Derived terms

* dramatico-musical
* musical bow
* musical box
* musical chairs
* musical comedy
* musical ear syndrome
* musical film
* musical glasses
* musical instrument
* musical interval
* musical notation
* musical saw
* musical sawist
* musical scale
* musical theater
* musical theatre
* musical theory
* musical time
* theory of musical equilibration

#### Related terms

* music
* musicality
* musically

#### Translations
### Noun

musical (plural musicals)
* A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
** 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 221:It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.
* (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

#### Derived terms

* 2.5D musical
* dancical
* jukebox musical
* megamusical

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [mu.ziˈkal]
* Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

### Adjective

musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)
* musical

#### Derived terms

* instrument musical
* musicalment

### Noun

musical m (plural musicals)
* musical

### Further reading

* “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “musical”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “musical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “musical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Alternative forms

* musikal

### Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

### Noun

musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)
* A musical.

#### Derived terms

* film-musical

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mūsicālis. By surface analysis, musique +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /my.zi.kal/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

### Adjective

musical (feminine musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)
* (relational) music, musical
    comédie musicale ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    oreille musicale ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    scie musicale ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    chaises musicales ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* melodious (pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably)
    Near-synonym: mélodieux
    très musical ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Derived terms

* musicalement
* musicalité

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: mizikal
* → Persian: موزیکال (muzikâl)
* → Turkish: müzikal

### Further reading

* “musical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* musclai

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /musiˈkal/ [mu.s̺iˈkɑɫ]
* Rhymes: -al
* Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

### Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)
* musical; of or pertaining to music
    Synonym: músico

### Further reading

* “musical”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “musical” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmjuzikɛl]
* Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Noun

musical (plural musicalek)
* musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [muzikˈal]

### Adjective

musical
* musical (relating to music)

#### Synonyms

* music

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmju.zi.kol/
* Rhymes: -uzikol

### Noun

musical m (invariable)
* musical

### References

* ↑ musical in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* masculi

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

musical m (definite singular musicalen, indefinite plural musicaler, definite plural musicalene)
* form removed by a 1982 spelling decision; superseded by musikal

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* musicau (Gascony, Provençal)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /myziˈkal/
* Audio (Languedoc):(file)

### Adjective

musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)
* musical (of or relating to music)
* musical (pleasing to the ear)

#### Derived terms

* musicalitat

#### Related terms

* musica

### Further reading

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 463.

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /myziˈkal/
* Rhymes: -al

### Adjective

musical
* musical

#### Related terms

* mùsica

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica + -ālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mjuˈzi.kal/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ikal
* Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

### Noun

musical m inan
* (film, music, theater) musical (stage performance, show or film)

#### Derived terms

* musicalowy

### Further reading

* musical in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From música (“music”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /mu.ziˈkaw/ [mu.ziˈkaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mu.ziˈkal/ [mu.ziˈkaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mu.ziˈkal/ [mu.ziˈkaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mu.ziˈka.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

### Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)
* musical (of or relating to music)
** 2010, Irineu Guerrini Jr., Eduardo Vicente, Na trilha do disco: Relatos sobre a indústria fonográfica no Brasil, Editora E-papers, →ISBN, page 177:É possível que, quando baixar a poeira e a indústria da música terminar de se reestruturar, constatemos que não só várias atividades profissionais do universo musical estarão em vias de desaparecer, mas também que outras novas estarão emergindo.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* musical (pleasing to the ear)
    Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

#### Derived terms

* musicalidade
* musicalmente

### Noun

musical m (plural musicais)
* musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)

#### Related terms

* músico

### Further reading

* “musical”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “musical”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /musiˈkal/ [mu.siˈkal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

### Adjective

musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicales)
* musical

#### Derived terms

* comedia musical
* instrumento musical
* musicalidad
* musicalmente
* notación musical
* piromusical

### Noun

musical m (plural musicales)
* musical

#### Related terms

* música

### Further reading

* “musical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10