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ChoralNet: "Music" (the word) in many languages
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 17:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christine L Bock Subject: "music" in many languages - results - LONG PAA04366 QAA24300 WOW!!!!! I had no idea I'd get so many replies to my inquiry about how to say music in other languages. Thanks to all of you knowledgable people who answered. This is for a project that will hopefully integrate music into several other subject areas, including geography, and social studies. Many of you expressed interest in the results and asked that a compilation be posted to the list. I've included all the replies, even though there are duplicates. So here goes.... Christine Bock Knoxville, TN ----- swedish - musik finnish - musiikki danish - musik norwegian - musikk Director musices HANS LUNDGREN Musicum, Linköpings universitet, S-581 83 LINKÖPING, Sweden Tel. + 46 (0)13 28 40 40, fax + 46 (0)13 28 27 70, NMT + 46 (0)10 691 61 00 E-post/e-mailto:Hans.Lundgren(a)music.liu.se http://www.liu.se/org/music/ ------- In Turkish it is Müzik ! Evelyne BESSE-ERTAN Istanbul/Turkiye http://www.geocities.com/vienna/5627 ------ From: Ulrik Olason Icelandic: Tonlist means music (the o in tonlist has an accent) Ulrik Olason Organist Öldugata 33 101 Reykjavik ICELAND Tel. +354 552 7415 ------- muzyka - Lithuanian muzik - Albanian ice - Tamil mijucik - Tamil musica - Latin Monika Fahrnberger, Vienna, Austria (cat(a)eimoni.tuwien.ac.at) ------ From: PoohCactus(a)aol.com Try hooking up with the children's music network - there are several members from other countries (including Israel) that could help you. becky childrens-music(a)cowboy.net ------- From: JOSCHEIER(a)aol.com In Irish Gaelic, Music is ceol Jo Scheier Urban Sky Consort http\www.mattress.org\urban\sky.html -------- From: Kristin & Charlie Kehler Hindi: Sangheet (short a, as in "uh") Tamil: Isai (short first i, glide on the "s") Sanskrit, Telegu, Kannada, Malayalam: Sangheetam (final "a" also short) -------- From: "Essie [iso-8859-1] Dubé" After I read your message, I decided to do a web search. I entered "+foreign +language +dictionaries" and it came back with a slew of things. One particularly wonderful site is: math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries.html Once you're there, click "other languages" in the left sidebar. You will be transported to a page that has (in addition to the languages you mentioned) 15 others -- down to English-Esperanto!! A dictionary online is a great idea. ---------- musique--french Bill Pershing bpershing(a)juno.com PO Box 254 Wisner, LA 71378 ---------- Musikk in Norsk (norwegian) Gary Weidenaar International School of Stavanger, Norway (ISS) Head - Fine Arts Department e-mail address: garyaw(a)online.no ISS fax # - 47 51 55 2962 (dial 011 first from the US) -------- From: Lucas M Weiss Moosiki (accent on last "i") means music in Greek. Lucas Weiss Westminster Choir College ------- In portuguese it is called: Musica. It is pronounced much the same way as Spanish and Italian. that is also how it is called in Ladino (the jewish spanish dialect.) Ciro D'Araujo Baritone in Rio de Janeiro http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/6256 mailto:ciroa(a)ibm.net ------- Bulgarian : Is pronounced "muzika" but is spelled in cyrillic that looks sort of like this : MY3NKA (but turn the "N" around backwards) Russian look similar: MY3blKA Rumanian: MUZICA (put a little "u" or a the mouth of a smiley face over the final "a" Jim Holmes Head Serials Cataloger The General Libraries The University of Texas at Austin jholmes(a)mail.utexas.edu (512)495-4181 --------- The word "music" in the Slovene language is very different: they say "glasba". Slovenia is the northernmost of the former Yugoslav regions, bordering on Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. It gained its independence in 1991 and is a beautiful alpine country with a tiny stretch of coast on the Adriatic. It also has a fantastic choral tradition - they say that if you put two Slovenes in a room you have a choir. As an Aussie visitor (with no family ties or other vested interests), I found that to be absolutely true! Francis Young, 11/30 Victoria Ave, Concord West NSW 2138 AUSTRALIA Tel. (+61-2) 9736 3105 Work: 9648 5877 http://www.magna.com.au/~francis/index.htm mailto:francis(a)magna.com.au ------- From: "Joseph M. Young" Polish: muzyka (MOO-zik-ah) ------- From: Kathy Sladek According to the International Dictionary by Ouseg: Czech - hubda (f) Danish - musik (c) Dutch - muziek (c) Finnish - musiikki French - musique (f) German - die Musik Hungarian - zene Italian - musica (f) Croatian - glazba (f) Norwegian - musikk (c) Polish - muzyka (f) Portuguese - musica (f) (accent over "u") Rumanian - musica (f) (short vowel sound mark over "a") Slovak - hudba (f) Spanish - musica (f) (accent over "u") Swedish - musik Turkish - misika;musiki It also lists Russian Serbian & Ukranian, but not in Roman-style, so I cannot send them to you. Hope this helps. | | | | Kathy Sladek | "Dying is easy...comedy is hard." | | Baltimore County Public Library | Edmund Gwenn | | | | | http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/ | http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~ksladek/| | ~ksladek/kathy/kathy.html| heritage/hphome.html | ------- in Danish: musik (pronounced MOO-zeek) Tim Olsen olsent(a)gar.union.edu ------- From: BACHLVR(a)aol.com Muzika (pron MOO-zih-kuh) in Russian, perhaps also Polish. Alex Ruggieri ------- From: "C.Szalai, Agnes" In Hungarian we have two expressions: zene and muzsika In Czech: hudba In Finnish: musiikki In Flemish and Dutch: Muziek In Latin and Italian: musica In Serbian: svirka In Croatian: glazba ------- From: DanRatelle(a)aol.com It's "zene" in Hungarian (same z and n as in English, and the e's are halfway between our e of bed and a of hat). DR ------- Music, in Polish, is musyka. In Latin, it is musica. Not very interesting, but true. Judith Conrad, Clavichord Player (jconrad(a)sunspot.tiac.net) Director of Fall River Fipple Fluters Church Musician at First Congregational Church, Bristol, R. I. Piano and Harpsichord Tuner-Technician ------- Estonian: muusik * Norman-Illis Reintamm * * Conductor * * Estonian National Opera * * (Teater Estonia) * * Tallinn, ESTONIA * * EE0001 * * norman(a)teleport.ee * ------- From: Caitlin McLaughlin The Hebrew for song is SHIR, pronounced "sheer," or ZEMER, pronounced "zeh-mehr." (Short e). ------- FINNISH: musikki Rich Pinkerton First United Methodist Church of Akron rpinkerton(a)acorn.net ------- From: Paul Mestrom In Dutch you write the word as 'muziek'; pronunciation something like 'müzeek' (with a short 'ee' ). In Turkish it will sound like 'moezik' (with a short 'oe'). As I have many Turkish pupils in the classes I teach music to, I sometimes hear the word. ------- From: FordFred(a)aol.com Music in Japanese = "ongaku" (ohn - gah - koo) - all syllables equally accented ------- From: Vlad Morosan In Russian it's "mu-zy-ka" with the stress on the first syllable. The "y" of the second syllable is a "short" -ih- vowel, similar to "it", but a little darker. Vladimir Morosan http://www.musicarussica.com ------- From: Robert Irwin Engle Hawaiian: mele Samoan: musika ------- In the Estonian language, "music" is "muusika" -- pronounced "moo'-see-kah". Ivar Tombach itombach(a)aol.com ------- From: Natalia Juszkiewicz I come from Poland when we call music as a MUZYKA (MOOZICA) ------- From: Dirk Smits Music in DUTCH MUZIEK Music in LATIN MUSICA ------- Music in Hebrew is "Moo-see-ka" with the accent on the 1st syllable. Oddly enough, it's the same word in Latin if I remember right: "Musica". Steve Barnett Composer/Arranger/Producer Barnett Music Productions BarMusProd(a)aol.com ------- From: wggr(a)waonline.com Dutch = muziek Polish = muzyk Portuguese = musica Turkish = muzik (umlaut over the u) Swedish = musik ------- From: Greg E Shepherd It's "ongaku" in Japanese. ------- From: MusiRom(a)aol.com Music in Romanian: muzica = MOO-zee-kah ------- From: Kayla Werlin Yin yue - chinese! (wo ay chun guh - I love to sing!) -------
christopher borela on August 6, 2003 10:00pm
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