# guitarra
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]
* Rhymes: -ara
* Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)
* guitar

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈta.rə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ɡiˈta.ra]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ara

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarres)
* guitar

#### Derived terms

* guitarra acústica
* guitarra elèctrica
* guitarrer
* guitarrista
* guitarró

### Further reading

* “guitarra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.rɐ]
* IPA: (gheada) /ħiˈtara/ [ħiˈt̪a.rɐ]
* Rhymes: -ara
* Hyphenation: gui‧ta‧rra

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)
* (music) guitar

#### Derived terms

* guitarra acústica
* guitarra clásica
* guitarra eléctrica
* guitarrista

### Noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)
* guitarist
    Synonym: guitarrista

### Further reading

* “guitarra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Interlingua
### Noun

guitarra (plural guitarras)
* guitar

## Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guitarra.

### Noun

guitarra
* 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)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 30–31

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra).

### Noun

guitarra f (plural *guitarras)
* (music, hapax) classical guitar

#### Descendants

* Fala: guitarra
* Galician: guitarra
* Portuguese: guitarra

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “guitarra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “guitarra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* guitara

### Etymology

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

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)
* (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

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.hɐ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/ [ɡiˈta.χɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ɡiˈta.ʁa/ [ɡiˈta.ha]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɡiˈta.ʁɐ/
* Rhymes: -aʁɐ
* Hyphenation: gui‧tar‧ra

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras) (music)
* classical guitar
    Synonyms: guitarra clássica, (Brazil) violão
* electric guitar
    Synonym: guitarra elétrica

#### Related terms

* guitarra elétrica
* guitarrear
* guitarrista

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

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

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)
* (music, Puter, Vallader) guitar

#### Derived terms

* guitarrist
* guitarrista

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish guitarra, borrowed from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), borrowed from Aramaic קיתרא, borrowed from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cítara.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡiˈtara/ [ɡiˈt̪a.ra]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ara
* Syllabification: gui‧ta‧rra

### Noun

guitarra f (plural guitarras)
* guitar
* 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)
** → Amharic: ጊታር (gitar)
** → Bengali: গিটার (giṭar)
** → Cantonese: 結他 / 结他 (git3 taa1)
** → Gujarati: ગિટાર (giṭār)
** → Hindi: गिटार (giṭār)
** → Irish: giotár
** → Japanese: ギター (gitā)
*** → Hakka: 吉他 (kí-tá)
*** → Hokkien: 吉他 (gì-tà, gih-tah)
** → Korean: 기타 (gita)
** → Mandarin: 吉他 (jítā)
** → Scottish Gaelic: giotàr
** → Sidamo: giitare
** → Thai: กีตาร์ (gii-dtâa)
* → French: guitare
* ⇒ Old French: guiterne
** → English: gittern
*** ⇒ English: cittern
* → 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

### Noun

guitarra m or f by sense (plural guitarras)
* guitarist
    Synonym: guitarrista

### Further reading

* “guitarra”, 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