bassoon

English

two bassoons

Etymology

From French basson.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈsuːn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) enPR: bə-so͞onʹ, IPA^(key): /bəˈsun/
• Hyphenation: bas‧soon

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• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

bassoon (plural bassoons)

1. A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.

   Synonym: (dated) fagotto

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.

Derived terms

• bassoonist, bassooner
• contrabassoon

Translations

musical instrument in the woodwind family

• Albanian: fagot (sq) m
• Arabic: زمخر (zamkhir)
• Armenian: ֆագոտ (hy) (fagot)
• Asturian: fagó m
• Azerbaijani: faqot
• Bulgarian: фагот (bg) m (fagot)
• Catalan: fagot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 低音管 (zh) (dīyīnguǎn), 巴松管 (zh) (bāsōngguǎn), 大管 (zh) (dàguǎn)

• Czech: fagot (cs) m
• Danish: fagot c
• Dutch: fagot (nl) m
• Esperanto: fagoto, hobojego
• Estonian: fagott
• Faroese: fagott f
• Finnish: fagotti (fi)
• French: basson (fr) m
• Georgian: ფაგოტი (ka) (pagoṭi)
• German: Fagott (de) n
• Hebrew: בסון (he) m
• Hindi: बसून (basūn)
• Hungarian: fagott (hu)
• Icelandic: fagott n
• Ido: basono (io)
• Indonesian: fagot (id)
• Irish: basún m
• Italian: fagotto (it) m
• Japanese: ファゴット (ja) (fagotto), バスーン (ja) (basūn)
• Kazakh: фагот (fagot)
• Korean: 바순 (basun)
• Latvian: fagots m
• Lithuanian: fagotas
• Macedonian: фагот m (fagot)
• Maori: pūhoru
• Norwegian: fagott (no) m
• Polish: fagot (pl) m
• Portuguese: fagote (pt) m
• Romanian: fagot (ro) n
• Russian: фаго́т (ru) m (fagót)
• Scottish Gaelic: torm-fheadan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фа̀гот m

  Roman: fàgot (sh) m

• Slovak: fagot (sk) m
• Slovene: fagót (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: fagot m

• Spanish: bajón (es) m, fagot (es) m
• Swahili: basuni
• Swedish: fagott (sv) c
• Tagalog: bahon
• Thai: บาสซูน (bàatsoon)
• Turkish: fagot (tr)
• Ukrainian: фаго́т (uk) m (fahót)
• Vietnamese: kèn fagôt
• Volapük: basun (vo), fagöm (older term)
• Welsh: basŵn m
• Yiddish: פֿאַגאָט m (fagot)

Verb

bassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)

1. To play the bassoon.
2. To make a bassoon-like sound.

Further reading

• bassoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

bassoon

1. illative singular of basso