zither

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.
 * 2)  Related or similar instruments in other cultures, such as the Chinese guqin or Norwegian harpeleik; especially any chordophone without a neck, and with strings that pass over the body.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: цитра
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: citer
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tsitter
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek: τσίτερ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: संतूर,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: sítar
 * Ido:
 * Irish: siotár, siotar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 치터
 * Latin: cithara
 * Macedonian: цитра
 * Malay:
 * Manchu: ᡶᡳᡨᡠᡥᠠᠨ
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: siter, harpeleik
 * Nynorsk: siter, harpeleik
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ци̏тра
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: citra
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sitara
 * Thai:, ซิทเธอร์
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: sitra
 * Vietnamese: đàn tranh

Verb

 * 1) To play a zither.
 * 2) * 1999, Richard Hacken (translator), “Mary in Misery” by in Into the Sunset: Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Austrian Prose, Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, pp. 413-414,
 * We traveled far and wide: he played the zither while I sang an accompaniment. He keeps zithering, and I sing like before, and before long we’ve put together a pretty good pile of money . ..
 * 1) To make a sound similar to that made by a zither; to move while making such a sound.
 * 2) * c. 1890, May Ostlere, Dead! London: Trischler, Chapter 3, p. 76,
 * Now [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes
 * 1) * c. 1890, May Ostlere, Dead! London: Trischler, Chapter 3, p. 76,
 * Now [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes