# guitar
## English
### Alternative forms

* guittar (obsolete)
* gittar (eye dialect)

### Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/
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* (General American) IPA: /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
** Audio (US):(file)
** (Southern US) IPA: /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/
* Hyphenation: gui‧tar
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

### Noun

guitar (plural guitars)
* (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
    Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.
    She was carrying her guitar in a fancily-decorated case.
    The band is looking for a new guitar player.
* (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

#### Synonyms

* axe (slang)
* gat (New Zealand slang)

#### Hypernyms

* chordophone
* stringed instrument

#### Hyponyms

* acoustic guitar
* electric guitar

#### Derived terms

* acoustic guitar
* air guitar
* armónico guitar
* banjitar
* baritone guitar
* Baroque guitar
* bass guitar
* bottleneck guitar
* bowed guitar
* cigar-box guitar
* cigar box guitar
* classical guitar
* console steel guitar
* contraguitar
* eight-string guitar
* electric guitar
* flamenco guitar
* four-string guitar
* guitar cello
* guitar-cello
* guitar fiddle
* guitarfish
* guitar hero
* guitarist
* guitar pick
* guitar-player
* guitar pop
* guitjo
* harp-guitar
* harp guitar
* Hawaiian guitar
* lap steel guitar
* lead guitar
* lute-guitar
* lute guitar
* lyre-guitar
* moon guitar
* nylon-string guitar
* parlor guitar, parlour guitar
* pedal steel guitar
* Portuguese guitar
* resonator guitar
* rhythm guitar
* romantic guitar
* Russian guitar
* Schrammel guitar
* Selmer guitar
* seven-string guitar
* slide guitar
* Spanish guitar
* steel guitar
* steel-string guitar
* steel string guitar
* table steel guitar
* tenor guitar
* twelve-stringed guitar

#### Descendants

* → 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)

#### References

* 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

### Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)
* (informal) To play the guitar.
** 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.

### See also

* Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

### Anagrams

* Ugarit

## Catalan
### Etymology

From guit +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ɡiˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ɡiˈtaɾ]

### Verb

guitar (first-person singular present guito, first-person singular preterite guití, past participle guitat)
* (intransitive) to kick, to buck (of horses and mules)

#### Related terms

* guitza

### Further reading

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

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡitar/, [ˈɡ̊itˢɑːˀ]

### Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)
* guitar

#### Inflection
## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ɣi˧˧ taː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ɣɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɣɪj˧˧ taː˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: ghi ta

### Noun

guitar
* Alternative spelling of ghi-ta (“guitar”)