oboe

An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊboʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊbəʊ

oboe (plural oboes)

2. (music) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

• cor anglais
• hautboy

• Booe, OEOB, OOBE

From Italian oboe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoboe/, [ˈo̞bo̞e̞]
• Rhymes: -oboe
• Hyphenation^(key): oboe

oboe

1. (music) oboe

• “oboe”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• oboè (obsolete)

From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.bo.e/
• Rhymes: -ɔboe
• Hyphenation: ò‧bo‧e

oboe m (plural oboi)

1. (music) oboe
2. (metonymically) oboist

• oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French hautbois.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /oˈboe/ [oˈβ̞o.e]
• Rhymes: -oe
• Syllabification: o‧bo‧e

oboe m (plural oboes)

1. (music) oboe

• “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

IPA^(key): /ʊˈboː/, IPA^(key): /ˈoːbʊ.ə/, IPA^(key): /ˈoːbʊˌɛ/

oboe c

1. (music) an oboe

• oboist

• oboe in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• oboe in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• oboe in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)