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Meaning of "kantele" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KANTELE

kantele  [ˈkæntəˌleɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KANTELE

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kantele is a noun.
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WHAT DOES KANTELE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kantele

Kantele

A kantele or harppu is a traditional plucked string instrument of the dulcimer and zither family native to Finland and Karelia. Its relatives can be found throughout the world, including Estonian kannel, Mari kusle, Russian gusli, Latvian kokle, and Lithuanian kanklės. Together these instruments make up the family known as Baltic psalteries. Kantele is also related to the ancient Asian instruments such as Chinese gu zheng and Japanese koto.

Definition of kantele in the English dictionary

The definition of kantele in the dictionary is a Finnish stringed instrument, similar to a zither.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KANTELE


amabile
æˈmɑːbɪˌleɪ
ballabile
bæˈlɑːbɪˌleɪ
beaujolais
ˈbəʊʒəˌleɪ
cacolet
ˈkækəʊˌleɪ
Charolais
ˈʃærəˌleɪ
nargile
ˈnɑːɡɪˌleɪ
onlay
ˈɒnˌleɪ
outlay
ˈaʊtˌleɪ
Rabelais
ˈræbəˌleɪ
rokelay
ˈrɒkəˌleɪ
roundelay
ˈraʊndɪˌleɪ
time-delay
ˈtaɪmdɪˌleɪ
virelay
ˈvɪrɪˌleɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KANTELE

kans
Kans.
Kansan
Kansas
Kansas City
Kansu
Kant
kantar
kantha
Kantian
Kantianism
kantikoy
Kantism
KANU
kanuka
kanzu

WORDS THAT END LIKE KANTELE

allele
clientele
dele
dictyostele
eustele
hele
hydrocele
monostele
Ndebele
Passchendaele
Peele
protostele
Schiele
sele
siphonostele
Steele
stele
triskele
ukelele
ukulele

Synonyms and antonyms of kantele in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kantele» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KANTELE

Find out the translation of kantele to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kantele from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kantele» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

kantele
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kantele
570 millions of speakers

English

kantele
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kantele
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

kantele
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кантеле
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kantele
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kantele
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kantele
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kantele
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kantele
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カンテレ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

kantele
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kantele
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Kantele
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

kantele
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कांटेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kantele
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

kantele
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kantele
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кантеле
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kantele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Kantele
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kantele
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kantele
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kantele
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kantele

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KANTELE»

The term «kantele» is regularly used and occupies the 71.002 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KANTELE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kantele

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KANTELE»

Discover the use of kantele in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kantele and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East
Old-time kantele players Instruments of the kantele type are played in Finland and the Baltic States and northwest Russia. They are basically forms of zither, whose root design is a tapering box with strings, usually now of steel, but sometimes ...
Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo, 1999
2
Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland
Bibliography Virtamo, Keijo. "Kansankonservatorio" [Folk conservatory]. Otavan iso musiikkitietosanakirja [Otava's Large Music Encyclopedia]. 5 vols. Helsinki: Otava, 1979. KANTELE, the Finnish national instrument, originally a five-stringed  ...
Ruth-Esther Hillila, Barbara Blanchard Hong, 1997
3
Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the ...
kantele, as used by Saha in this performance of “Velisurmaaja” as a symbol of an ancient heritage, has itself been reinterpreted. During the 1920s, for example, Paul Salminen developed a modern kantele, with a lever mechanism so that ac-  ...
Tina K. Ramnarine, 2003
4
Soviet Music and Society Under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton ...
Gudkov also designed his own fourteen-string instruments that were based on the traditional hollowed kantele model, but could play the two octaves of the chromatic scale if the performer pressed the diatonically tuned strings closest to the ...
Neil Edmunds, 2004
5
A History of European Folk Music
Figure 7.1. A ten-stringed kantele. Sketch after a photograph of kantele player Petri Patronen. (After Asplund 1983, p. 45.) Figure 7..2. Women gathered around a modern-type kantele. It has more than 20 strings, like a modern zither. This kind  ...
‎1997
6
FInnic Paganism
A kantele (pronounced Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkɑntele] in Finnish) or kannel ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkɑnːel] in Estonian) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland, Estonia, and Karelia. It is related to the ...
By Wikipedians
7
Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics: The ...
I regard the accounts of the origin of the kantele and of Véiiniimtiinen's singing to it as sub-narrative material in the tradition: a constituent of story, but not a whole story in its own right. In this I only follow resolutely after Haavio, who observed ...
Lauri Honko, 1990
8
Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissues
Kantele A, Arvilommi H, Iikkanen K, Savilahti E, Makela HP, Herzog C, Furer E, and Kantele JM (2005). / Infect Dis 191, 312-7. Kantele A, Kantele JM, Savilahti E , Westerholm M, Arvilommi H, Lazarovits A, Butcher EC, and Makela PH (1997).
Tasuku Honjo, Fritz Melchers, 2006
9
The Songs of Power
The. Kantele. Vainamoinen, old magician, ancient sage, took an ax, took a carving knife, walked in the Northland woods, strode through the ancient forest. Birds chattered, creatures scattered. Said Vainamoinen, “Now I'll make something ...
Aaron Shepard
10
Marko Kantele
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marko Kantele (born August 24, 1968 in Heinola) is a Finnish darts player.
Zheng Cirino, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KANTELE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kantele is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ohio governor details barrier proposal for Buckeye Lake dam
(Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT. By ANN SANNER and KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press ... «The Bellingham Herald, Jul 15»
2
Surgical abortions planned at clinic
By Kantele Franko ASSOCIATED PRESS • Thursday July 16, 2015 6:14 AM. Ohio has licensed a clinic that plans to start offering surgical abortions in an Akron ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
3
Finnish Music Festival to be held at B'nai Abraham
The group performs on the kantele, an ancient instrument that originated 2,000 years ago and is now Finland's national musical instrument. «Hometown Focus, Jul 15»
4
On-site Piketon uranium disposal OK'd in decades-long plan
More Articles. By Kantele Franko Associated Press • Monday July 13, 2015 5:27 AM. Waste from the decontamination and decommissioning of a Cold War-era ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
5
Ohio judge wants to know if he can refuse gay weddings
... and recommend any needed changes for court approval. ___. Associated Press writer Kantele Franko in Columbus contributed to this report. «Chron.com, Jul 15»
6
Granzyme B mediated function of Parvovirus B19-specific CD4 + T …
Article | PubMed |; Kumar A, Kantele A, Jarvinen T, Chen T, Kavola H, Sadeghi M et al. Trichodysplasia spinulosa-associated polyomavirus ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
7
Ohio court: Veteran's ducks for therapy violate local law
Ohio court: Veteran's ducks for therapy violate local law. By KANTELE FRANKO. The Associated Press. Published: June 30, 2015 ... «Stars and Stripes, Jul 15»
8
Ohio to replace bridge, reroute traffic after tanker fire that closed …
Ohio to replace bridge, reroute traffic after tanker fire that closed parts of highway. By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press. July 1, 2015 — 9:40pm. Text size. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Late night at the Statehouse yields 44 John Kasich vetoes and an …
... left, and House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, right, to discuss the state budget last week with reporters. (Kantele Franko, The Associated Press). «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
10
I-70/270 bridge to be replaced after tanker fire
I-70/270 bridge to be replaced after tanker fire. July 2, 2015. By KANTELE FRANKO - Associated Press , Morning Journal News. Save | Post a comment |. «Morning Journal News, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Kantele [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/kantele>. May 2024 ».
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