harp

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /hɑːp/
• (US) IPA: /hɑɹp/

Noun

harp (plural harps)

1. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
   1. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
4. Short for harp seal.

Verb

harp (third-person singular simple present harps, present participle harping, simple past and past participle harped)

1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.
   • Why do you harp on a single small mistake?
     (US)
   • Why do you harp on about a single small mistake?
     (UK)
2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
3. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
4. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Anagrams

• PHAR

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɦɑrp/

Noun

harp f or m (plural harpen, diminutive harpje n)

1. harp

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɑɾʲp/

Noun

harp (definite accusative harbi, plural harpler)

1. (archaic) war
   • Synonym: savaş

Noun

harp (definite accusative harpy, plural harplar)

1. letter (of an alphabet)