cor anglais

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cor anglais (literally “English horn”), calqued from a misunderstanding of Middle High German engellisches horn (“angelic horn”), from the resemblance of the instrument to horns played by angels as depicted in the Middle Ages.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔːɹ ˈɒŋɡleɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹ ɔŋˈɡleɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

cor anglais (plural cors anglais)

1. (music) A double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family that is pitched in F, one-fifth lower than the oboe and is consequently approximately one-third longer than the oboe.

Synonyms

• English horn

Translations

woodwind instrument

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: անգլիական եղջերափող (angliakan eġǰerapʻoġ)
• Basque: adar ingeles
• Belarusian: англі́йскі ражо́к m (anhlíjski ražók)
• Bengali: ইংলিশ হর্ন (iṅliś horno)
• Catalan: corn anglès (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英國管／英国管 (zh) (Yīngguó guǎn)

• Czech: anglický roh m
• Danish: engelskhorn n
• Dutch: Engelse hoorn (nl) m or f, althobo (nl) m
• Esperanto: angla korno
• Estonian: inglissarv, altoboe
• Finnish: englannintorvi (fi)
• French: cor anglais (fr) m
• Galician: corno inglés (gl) m
• German: Englischhorn (de) n
• Greek: αγγλικό κόρνο (el) n (anglikó kórno), κορ ανγκλέ n (kor angklé)
• Hebrew: קֶרֶן אַנְגְּלִית f (qɛrɛn ʾangəlīṯ)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: angolkürt (hu)
• Icelandic: enskt horn n, englahorn n
• Interlingua: corno anglese
• Irish: corn Sasanach m
• Italian: corno inglese (it) m
• Japanese: コーラングレ (ja) (kōrangure), コールアングレ (kōru angure), イングリッシュホルン (ja) (ingurisshu horun), アルトオーボエ (aruto ōboe)
• Korean: 잉글리시 호른 (inggeullisi horeun)
• Latvian: angļu rags m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: engelsk horn n, alt-obo m

  Nynorsk: engelsk horn n

• Persian: کر آنگله (kor angle), کرآنگله (korangle)
• Polish: rożek angielski m
• Portuguese: corne inglês m, corno inglês m
• Quechua: Inlish pinkuyllu
• Romanian: corn englez (ro) n
• Russian: англи́йский рожо́к (ru) m (anglíjskij rožók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѐнгле̄скӣ ро̑г m

  Roman: ènglēskī rȏg m

• Slovak: anglický roh m
• Slovene: anglẹ̑ški rọ̑g m
• Spanish: corno inglés m
• Swahili: baragumu ya kiingereza
• Swedish: engelskt horn (sv) n
• Thai: คอร์ แองเกลส์ (kɔɔ ɛɛng glee)
• Turkish: İngiliz kornosu, kor angle
• Ukrainian: англі́йський ріжо́к m (anhlíjsʹkyj rižók)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• West Frisian: althobo, Ingelske hoarn
• Yiddish: ענגלישער האָרן (englisher horn)

French

Etymology

Calque of Middle High German engellisches horn (“angelic horn”), by misunderstanding.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁ‿ɑ̃.ɡlɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

cor anglais m (plural cors anglais)

1. (music) cor anglais, English horn

Descendants

• → Greek: κορ ανγκλέ (kor angklé)