Fiddle

15:54 Mar 11, 2024
English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
English term or phrase: Fiddle
I need to know the exact word for Fiddle, not Violin
No context, sorry

Thanks in advance
Kika Capretti
Local time: 17:28


Summary of answers provided
4 +1民俗小提琴
jyuan_us
4民俗提琴、提琴
Odette T
4古提琴
Yi Cao


  

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fiddle
民俗小提琴


Explanation:
It was transliterated as 菲德勒 or left in English in some websites.

It is called 民俗小提琴 in here: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/100576773

The author says there is no established translation in Chinese for Fiddle, so he coined one: 民俗小提琴

jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 11:28
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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民俗提琴、提琴


Explanation:
I am not sure whether you are translating into Simplified or Traditional Chinese. However, there may be two more possible translations for this term.

References:
https://www.m5music.hk/dictionary/fiddle/
https://ed.arte.gov.tw/uploadfile/periodical/3276_p63-67.pdf

Example sentence(s):
  • 現在即使有一 些人開始時接受了古典音樂的小提琴訓練,後來改奏民間音樂,他們也自稱或被稱「提琴師」(fiddler), 而非「小提琴家」(violinist)。再者,「fiddle」一詞也可廣義地作為所有
Odette T
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:28
Native speaker of: Native in Cantonese (Yue Chinese)Cantonese (Yue Chinese), Native in ChineseChinese
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古提琴


Explanation:
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/32478150
这个上面说FIDDLE= 古提琴

Yi Cao
New Zealand
Local time: 03:28
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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