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Original entry ↗A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body · Any instrument of the same musicological type. · A harmonica. · A struck tuned percussion instrument of metal or wooden bars, especially as a function of a theatre organ.
To repeatedly mention a subject, especially so as to nag or complain. · To play on (a harp or similar instrument). · To play (a tune) on the harp. · To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harpā, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).
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