violin

Etymology
From, from +.

Noun

 * 1) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
 * 2)  Any instrument of the, always inclusive of violins, violas, and cellos and sometimes further including the double bass.
 * 3)  The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.
 * 1)  Any instrument of the, always inclusive of violins, violas, and cellos and sometimes further including the double bass.
 * 2)  The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.
 * 1)  The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.

Usage notes
The distinction between violins and is typically contextual and cultural. The same instrument is considered a violin when playing classical music in formal settings, a when playing folk or country music, and variously described in other settings (such as jazz and rock) depending whichever term seems more appropriate to the speaker.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: violina
 * Amharic: ቫዮሊን,
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: كمنجه
 * Moroccan Arabic: كمنجة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: বেহেলা
 * Asturian: violín
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: biolin
 * Belarusian: скры́пка
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: violoñs
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 小提琴
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: fyll
 * Corsican: viulinu
 * Crimean Tatar: kemane
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dzongkha: པི་ཝང
 * Emilian:
 * Erzya: кайга
 * Esperanto: violono
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: violin, fiól
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: violin
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤽𞤢𞥄𞤽𞤮𞥅𞤪𞤵
 * Latin: ñaañooru
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვიოლინო
 * German:,  , ,
 * Alemannic German: Guege
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: agiaq
 * Hawaiian: pila, waiolina
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: वायलिन, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: veidhlín, veidheal, fidil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 提琴, フィドル
 * Kabuverdianu: rabéka
 * Kalmyk: хур
 * Kannada: ಪಿಟೀಲು
 * Kazakh: скрипка
 * Khmer: វីយោឡុង
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin:
 * Lao: ຊຶງ, ຊຸງ, ຊໍ
 * Latin: (Modern Latin) violinum
 * Latvian: vijole, smuika
 * Ligurian: violin
 * Lithuanian: smuikas
 * Lombard:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Vigelien, Fiedel, Fiddel
 * Macedonian: виоли́на, гу́сла
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: vjolin
 * Manx: biol
 * Maori: whira
 * Marathi: वायोलिन
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: хийл хөгжим,, бага эрүү хуур
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠢᠭᠢᠯᠢ ᠬᠥᠭᠵᠢᠮ, ᠬᠢᠭᠢᠯᠢ, ᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ ᠡᠷᠡᠦ ᠬᠤᠭᠤᠷ
 * Neapolitan:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, fele
 * Nynorsk: fiolin, fele
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: كمان
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: violin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: wiyulin
 * Romagnol: viulén
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: gìa, violina
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: vaiolini
 * Scottish Gaelic: fidheall
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: виолина
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: husle
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wiolina, fidle
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: finyoro
 * Swahili: fidla
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: biyolin, magbiyolin
 * Tajik: скрипка, ғиҷҷак, камонча
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: скрипка
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: skripka
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سارنگی
 * Uyghur: ئىسكىرىپكا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: violìn
 * Vietnamese: vĩ cầm
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: biyolin
 * Welsh: feiolin, ffidil
 * West Frisian: fioele
 * Yiddish: פֿידל
 * Zhuang: siuj dizginz
 * Zulu: ivayolini

Verb

 * 1)  To play on, or as if on, a violin.

Etymology
From, diminutive form of with diminutive suffix.

Noun

 * 1) violin