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harpe.

A triangular musical instrument played by plucking strings with the fingers; a harp.

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/aʁp/

  1. A triangular musical instrument played by plucking strings with the fingers; a harp.

    feminine

  2. Any member of the sea snail mollusc family Harpidae; a harp snail.

    feminine

  3. Ellipsis of harpe de David (“David's harp; metaphorical, poetic inspiration; a calming force”).

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis · feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French harpe, from Old French harpe, arpe, from Late Latin harpa, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ. Cognate with Occitan arpa, Italian arpa, Spanish arpa, Portuguese harpa, etc.

noun/aʁp/

  1. A dog's claw

    feminine

  2. finger

    broadly · feminine · slang

  3. Ellipsis of harpe de fer (“bent piece of iron used to mate corner posts of timber framing to a wall”).

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis · feminine

  4. A stone left protruding from a wall at regular intervals so that it can be interlocked with a corresponding stone on another wall to form quoining.

    feminine

  5. A type of portcullis.

    feminine · historical
Where this word comes from

Uncertain; likely deverbal from harper (“to seize; grasp violently”), of High German origin. Alternatively, borrowed from Occitan arpa (“claw, grasp”), from Latin harpe (“sickle, bird of prey”), and conflated with harper, producing a word-initial h-.

verb/aʁp/

  1. inflection of harper: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person

  2. inflection of harper: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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