köken: See late Middle High German zitterlein. From Old High German zithara, from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). See also Gitarre.
köken: Borrowed from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of guitarra and cedra, the former entered through Arabic, and the latter was inherited from a Vulgar Latin variant.
köken: Borrowed from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára, “kind of harp”). Doublet of guitarra, which entered through Arabic, and of cítola and cistre.
zither (musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips)
çekim: çoğul cytry · tamlayan cytry
köken: Etymology tree German Zitherbor. Polish cytra Borrowed from German Zither. Doublet of gitara and kitara.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas Proto-Iranian *θráyah Old Persian 𐏂 (ç) Classical Persian سه Proto-Indo-European *ten- Classical Persian تار Classical Persian سِهتَار (si-tār)bor. Hindi सितार Borrowed from Classical Persian سِهتَار (si-tār, literally “three strings”).
köken: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára), with the common vacillation in the unstressed /er~ar/, as in Caesar- ~ Caeser-, hilaris ~ hilerus, materis ~ mataris.