piano

Etymology 1
, from, from +. So named because it could produce a wide range of varied volumes note-by-note, in contrast to older keyboard instruments, notably the harpsichord. .

Noun



 * 1)  a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings

Translations

 * Afrikaans: klavier
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ፒያኖ
 * Arabic: بِيَانُو, مِعْزَف
 * Hijazi Arabic: بِيانو
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: pianu
 * Azerbaijani:, fortepiano, pianino,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: фартэпія́на
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: пиа́но
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏔᏅ ᏗᎧᏃᎩᏍᏗ, ᏗᏂᏤᎷᎯᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鋼琴
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:, jang shang ma jo cher bi a no.
 * Cornish: piano
 * Corsican: pianuforte, pianu
 * Czech:, piáno, břinkotruhla
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: klaver
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ,
 * German: ;  ;
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: klaveri
 * Guaraní: kuãytasã
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, महावाद्य
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Piano
 * Icelandic:, , fortepíanó
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: pianó
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: фортепиано, күйсандық
 * Khmer: ប៉្យាណូ
 * Komi-Zyrian: зонгорӧ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: пианино
 * Ladino: pyano
 * Lao: ປີອາໂນ
 * Latin: clavile
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: пија́но, клави́р
 * Malagasy: valihavata
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: pjanu
 * Maori: piana
 * Marathi: पियानो
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: төгөлдөр хуур
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠭᠦᠯᠳᠡᠷ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo: biwooʼ hólóní, dilní náníltąshígíí
 * Norman: piano
 * North Frisian: klawiar
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Piano
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪਿਆਨੋ
 * Quechua: yatana qallwa
 * Romanian:, Pno.
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: piàno
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кла̀вӣр
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: pianuforti, chianuforti
 * Slovak: klavír
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: piyano
 * Tajik: пианино
 * Tamil: பியானோ, கின்னரப்பெட்டி
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྣོ་སྦྲེང
 * Tigrinya: ፒያኖ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: pianino, roýal
 * Udmurt: рояль
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پیانو
 * Uyghur: پيانىنو
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: piano, perdoneg
 * Western Panjabi: پیانو
 * Yiddish: פּיאַנע, קלאַוויר
 * Zhuang: ganghginz
 * Zulu:

Verb

 * 1) To play the piano.
 * 2)  To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
 * 3) To equip with a piano.
 * 1)  To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
 * 2) To equip with a piano.
 * 1)  To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
 * 2) To equip with a piano.
 * 1) To equip with a piano.
 * 1) To equip with a piano.
 * 1) To equip with a piano.
 * 1) To equip with a piano.

Etymology 2
From.

Adverb



 * 1)  softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music)

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: pianó
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: piano
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1)  Soft, quiet.
 * 2)  Gentle, soft, subdued.

Verb

 * 1) To become softer and less intense.

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Etymology
Ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , shortening of.

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Etymology
..

Etymology 1
From

Adjective

 * 1) plane
 * 2) flat, level
 * 3) plain
 * 4) soft
 * 5) penultimate accented
 * 1) penultimate accented
 * 1) penultimate accented

Noun

 * 1) plane
 * 2)  of a building
 * 3) plan, tactic, stratagem, scheme, plot
 * , as short for

Adverb

 * 1) slowly
 * 2) carefully

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  of any of the popes named Pius; Pian

Etymology
Borrowed from, short form of , from , from +. The Italian word is from, from.

Noun

 * a

Verb

 * 1) to play the

Etymology
Borrowed from and.

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Etymology
, short form of. .

Adverb

 * , soft
 * , slowly

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) musical directive to play softly

Noun

 * 1) a very soft sound
 * 1) a very soft sound
 * 1) a very soft sound

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) piano

Noun

 * 1)  a

Noun

 * 1)  piano

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  piano, pianoforte