fife

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

Verb

To play this instrument.

Num

Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.

Sinónimos

pipe

flute

🪈

whistle

piccolo

siren

straw

clarionet

tin-whistle

pennywhistle

horn

oboe

reed

Traducións

pífano

fifre

piffero

fifre

pífano

pifre

pijp

Querpfeife

πίφερο

fife

fife and kinross

fiffaro

fluit

pífaro

pife

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈfaɪf/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.