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Etymology
[edit]BorrowedfromJapaneseXích bát(しゃくはち, shakuhachi),fromXích(t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚,an archaic measure of length approximately equal to 30 centimeters)+Bát(pˠɛt̚,“eight”),corresponding to the standard length of the instrument (approximately 55 centimeters).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shakuhachi(pluralshakuhachis)
- (music)A Japaneseflutewhich is tuned to apentatonicscale and is end-blown like arecorderinstead of being held transversely like the Westerntransverse flute.
- 2019,W. Anthony Sheppard,Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination,Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page419:
- Sampledshakuhachisounds on the E-mu Emulator II were heard in the 1980s in TV ads and also appeared prominently in popular songs, as in the opening section of Peter Gabriel's 1986 “Sledgehammer,”[…]
Translations
[edit]flute
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]FromJapaneseXích bát(しゃくはち, shakuhachi).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shakuhachi
- (music)shakuhachi(instrument)
Declension
[edit]Inflectionofshakuhachi(Kotustype 5/risti,no gradation) | |||
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nominative | shakuhachi | shakuhachit | |
genitive | shakuhachin | shakuhachien | |
partitive | shakuhachia | shakuhacheja | |
illative | shakuhachiin | shakuhacheihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | shakuhachi | shakuhachit | |
accusative | nom. | shakuhachi | shakuhachit |
gen. | shakuhachin | ||
genitive | shakuhachin | shakuhachien | |
partitive | shakuhachia | shakuhacheja | |
inessive | shakuhachissa | shakuhacheissa | |
elative | shakuhachista | shakuhacheista | |
illative | shakuhachiin | shakuhacheihin | |
adessive | shakuhachilla | shakuhacheilla | |
ablative | shakuhachilta | shakuhacheilta | |
allative | shakuhachille | shakuhacheille | |
essive | shakuhachina | shakuhacheina | |
translative | shakuhachiksi | shakuhacheiksi | |
abessive | shakuhachitta | shakuhacheitta | |
instructive | — | shakuhachein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]shakuhachi
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