zithern.

Brit.

/ˈzɪðə/,

/ˈzɪθə/, U.S.

/ˈzɪðər/,

/ˈzɪθər/

Forms:

α. 1800s zitther, 1800s– zither, 1800s– zitter.

β. 1800s– zithern, 1800s– zittern.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Zither.

Etymology: < German Zither, †Zitter, †Zitther (see cither n.).In the β. forms apparently showing alteration after both cittern n. (compare also gittern n.) and the German plural form Zithern.

1. A musical instrument of central European origin, having four or five strings over a fretboard for sounding the melody and thirty to forty accompanying strings without frets, all running the length of a flat shallow resonator box, and played by striking or plucking the strings.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun]

cistiera1591

zither1831

qin1839

zeze1860

valiha?1866

cither1871

se1874

autoharp1882

zither banjo1888

gusli1893

langeleik1907

kantele1921

Scheitholt1961

1831 London Lit. Gaz. 14 May 317/2 With only the assistance of a zitter, or German guitar, he contrives to produce the effect of a whole band of music, and mingles together the bassoon, flute, trumpet, &c.

1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond II. ix. 98 Nothing haunted me so much as those tones of her zither.

1938 Life 6 June 62 (caption) Below is the interior of the first American hostel at Northfield, Mass. Playing his zither is Julius Wahl, hostel housefather.

1949 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 21 Nov. 2 Mr Karas has written a tune. He is the composer and chief exponent on his zither of the ‘Harry Lime Theme’.

2004 Wanderlust June 81 Lederhosen-clad buskers pick out waltzes on their zithers.

2. More generally: any of various other musical instruments consisting of a string or strings stretched across a soundboard of some type (and frequently also a resonator) without extending past the body of the instrument.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > others

sambucac1384

barbiton1545

alpharion1599

barbit1624

strumstrum1697

magadis1721

polychord1737

bumbassa1796

bell-harp1798

pipa1839

cavaquinho1863

nanga1864

bow1872

zither1877

ukeke1891

molo1912

pluriarc1923

Helicon-

1877 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 14 June A curious musical instrument now to be seen at a store on East Baltimore street is a Japanese koto, or zither, or harp.

1893 R. Wallaschek Primitive Music iii. 122 A bamboo ‘zither’, the strings of which are of reed fibers stretched over a wooden bridge.

1921 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 26 June An agglomeration of sound evoked from one-string fiddles, Chinese zithers, and..drums.

1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 560/1 Valiha, idiochord tube zither of the Malagasy Republic..made of bamboo with 7–20 strings.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 1 Aug. 10 See Syria's premier zither player Abdullah Chhadeh.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier, and with verbal nouns and participles forming compounds in which zither expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in zither music, zither player, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > zither player

zither player1850

zitherist1866

guslar1891

1850 J. von Tautphœus Initials I. iv. 101 The untutored singers and zither players.

1881 W. Black Sunrise I. iii. 43 He was passionately fond of zither music.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 215 He is playing..on a kind of zithern-harp.

1949 Illustr. London News 17 Sept. 428/1 We see the title and all the credits through a pattern of vibrating zither-strings.

1982 C. McIntosh Swan King viii. 83 A fun-loving, zither-playing, somewhat bohemian character.

1992 N.Y. Times 12 Feb. c15/4 A macabre replay of the Carol Reed-Graham Greene thriller [sc. The Third Man]..with its zither music, Ferris wheel and a mad doctor.

C2.

zither banjo n. a type of five-stringed banjo with a closed back and a headstock like that of a guitar, the fifth string running through a tube in the neck from the fifth fret to near its tuning peg.The zither banjo was invented and introduced to the United Kingdom by the U.S. banjo player Alfred Cammeyer, who played arrangements of pieces for the concert zither on it; it was never adopted in the United States. Six- and seven-stringed variants of the instrument are occasionally found.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun]

cistiera1591

zither1831

qin1839

zeze1860

valiha?1866

cither1871

se1874

autoharp1882

zither banjo1888

gusli1893

langeleik1907

kantele1921

Scheitholt1961

1888 Observer 21 Oct. 6/2 He [sc. Alfred D. Cammeyer] played a pizzicato from Sylvia upon what he is pleased to call a zither-banjo, an instrument resembling a banjo in shape with the tone of the zither.

2018 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 16 Oct. They played zither banjo, a quieter sounding instrument than the new metallic instruments.

Derivatives

ˈzitherist n. a person who plays the zither.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > zither player

zither player1850

zitherist1866

guslar1891

1866 A. Trollope in Every Sat. 28 July 101/2 The zither was brought forward, and a chair was put for the zitherist, and Herr Crippel stood for a moment behind his chair and bowed.

2017 New Yorker (Nexis) 24 Apr. 98 The pianist and zitherist Laraaji, who..released some twenty albums in the eighties.

ˈzither-like adj. resembling or reminiscent of a zither.

ΚΠ

1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. II. vii. 170 Besides the three kinds of drums, the myrimbas, and the zither-like sylimbas, I noticed that the orchestra included some stringed instruments made of the ribs of fan-palms.

1938 G. H. Danton Chinese People vi. 182 There is an ancient Chinese instrument called the ch'in, which is long and zither-like, with seven strings.

1963 Amer. Music Teacher 12 18/2 The performer plucked the strings which produced sweet, gentle, zither-like tones.

2003 W. Buonaventura I put Spell on You 262 Then a solo qanun began to play, a zither-like instrument which set up a shimmering vibration of notes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

zitherv.

Brit.

/ˈzɪðə/,

/ˈzɪθə/, U.S.

/ˈzɪðər/,

/ˈzɪθər/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: zither n.

Etymology: < zither n.In later use in senses 1a and 1b apparently reinterpreted as imitative (perhaps partly after whither v., blether v., dither v.). In quot. 1930 at sense 1b with punning allusion to sense 2. In quot. 1891 at sense 2 perhaps with punning allusion to sense 1a.

a. intransitive. To make a sound like that of a zither; to make a sibilant humming sound; to buzz lightly. Also: to move while making such a sound.

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > buzz

hurr1398

hoss1530

breeze1688

zizz1883

zoom1886

zither1889

1889 [implied in: M. Ostlere Dead! iii. 76 It swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes. (at zithering adj.)].

1935 Del Rio (Texas) Evening News 16 May 1/1 Every day cars pass this window which were born along about 1914, but they are still zithering along in the direction the driver seems to want to go.

1958 J. Townsend Young Devils iv. 35 His squeaky voice zithered through morning or afternoon.

1981 B. Carter Black Fox Running xxvii. 176 Insects zithered and chirred.

1997 Observer (Nexis) 27 July (Sports section) 11 There are fields of sunflowers and cicadas zithering under a hard blue sky.

b. transitive. To cause (something) to flutter or flicker.

ΘΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > cause to flutter or flicker

waverc1425

wear?a1505

flutter1621

flitter1864

wink1883

flicker1903

zither1930

1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 71 The sunlight, zithering their flanks with fire, Flashes between the shadows as they pass.

2005 R. Laymon Into the Fire (2006) xxii. 155 The breeze zithered Duke's hair.

2019 B. Holsinger Gifted School (e-book ed.) Two hundred acres zithered by breeze and flashes of sun.

2. intransitive. To play the zither. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing other instruments > play other instruments [verb (intransitive)] > play zither

zither1891

1891 Massillon (Ohio) Daily Independent 15 May If the zithern peddler had not been put out of the shop as he was the whole shop might be zithering now.

1906 W. J. Locke Beloved Vagabond (1907) ix. 120 We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France.

2008 J. Gruen Callas kissed Me...Lenny Too! xxiii. 138 Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	zither
释义	zithern. Brit. /ˈzɪðə/, /ˈzɪθə/, U.S. /ˈzɪðər/, /ˈzɪθər/ Forms: α. 1800s zitther, 1800s– zither, 1800s– zitter. β. 1800s– zithern, 1800s– zittern. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Zither. Etymology: < German Zither, †Zitter, †Zitther (see cither n.).In the β. forms apparently showing alteration after both cittern n. (compare also gittern n.) and the German plural form Zithern. 1. A musical instrument of central European origin, having four or five strings over a fretboard for sounding the melody and thirty to forty accompanying strings without frets, all running the length of a flat shallow resonator box, and played by striking or plucking the strings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] cistiera1591 zither1831 qin1839 zeze1860 valiha?1866 cither1871 se1874 autoharp1882 zither banjo1888 gusli1893 langeleik1907 kantele1921 Scheitholt1961 1831 London Lit. Gaz. 14 May 317/2 With only the assistance of a zitter, or German guitar, he contrives to produce the effect of a whole band of music, and mingles together the bassoon, flute, trumpet, &c. 1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond II. ix. 98 Nothing haunted me so much as those tones of her zither. 1938 Life 6 June 62 (caption) Below is the interior of the first American hostel at Northfield, Mass. Playing his zither is Julius Wahl, hostel housefather. 1949 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 21 Nov. 2 Mr Karas has written a tune. He is the composer and chief exponent on his zither of the ‘Harry Lime Theme’. 2004 Wanderlust June 81 Lederhosen-clad buskers pick out waltzes on their zithers. 2. More generally: any of various other musical instruments consisting of a string or strings stretched across a soundboard of some type (and frequently also a resonator) without extending past the body of the instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > other stringed instruments > [noun] > others sambucac1384 barbiton1545 alpharion1599 barbit1624 strumstrum1697 magadis1721 polychord1737 bumbassa1796 bell-harp1798 pipa1839 cavaquinho1863 nanga1864 bow1872 zither1877 ukeke1891 molo1912 pluriarc1923 Helicon- 1877 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 14 June A curious musical instrument now to be seen at a store on East Baltimore street is a Japanese koto, or zither, or harp. 1893 R. Wallaschek Primitive Music iii. 122 A bamboo ‘zither’, the strings of which are of reed fibers stretched over a wooden bridge. 1921 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 26 June An agglomeration of sound evoked from one-string fiddles, Chinese zithers, and..drums. 1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 560/1 Valiha, idiochord tube zither of the Malagasy Republic..made of bamboo with 7–20 strings. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 1 Aug. 10 See Syria's premier zither player Abdullah Chhadeh. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier, and with verbal nouns and participles forming compounds in which zither expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in zither music, zither player, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > zither player zither player1850 zitherist1866 guslar1891 1850 J. von Tautphœus Initials I. iv. 101 The untutored singers and zither players. 1881 W. Black Sunrise I. iii. 43 He was passionately fond of zither music. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 215 He is playing..on a kind of zithern-harp. 1949 Illustr. London News 17 Sept. 428/1 We see the title and all the credits through a pattern of vibrating zither-strings. 1982 C. McIntosh Swan King viii. 83 A fun-loving, zither-playing, somewhat bohemian character. 1992 N.Y. Times 12 Feb. c15/4 A macabre replay of the Carol Reed-Graham Greene thriller [sc. The Third Man]..with its zither music, Ferris wheel and a mad doctor. C2. zither banjo n. a type of five-stringed banjo with a closed back and a headstock like that of a guitar, the fifth string running through a tube in the neck from the fifth fret to near its tuning peg.The zither banjo was invented and introduced to the United Kingdom by the U.S. banjo player Alfred Cammeyer, who played arrangements of pieces for the concert zither on it; it was never adopted in the United States. Six- and seven-stringed variants of the instrument are occasionally found. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] cistiera1591 zither1831 qin1839 zeze1860 valiha?1866 cither1871 se1874 autoharp1882 zither banjo1888 gusli1893 langeleik1907 kantele1921 Scheitholt1961 1888 Observer 21 Oct. 6/2 He [sc. Alfred D. Cammeyer] played a pizzicato from Sylvia upon what he is pleased to call a zither-banjo, an instrument resembling a banjo in shape with the tone of the zither. 2018 Western Daily Press (Bristol) (Nexis) 16 Oct. They played zither banjo, a quieter sounding instrument than the new metallic instruments. Derivatives ˈzitherist n. a person who plays the zither. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > zither player zither player1850 zitherist1866 guslar1891 1866 A. Trollope in Every Sat. 28 July 101/2 The zither was brought forward, and a chair was put for the zitherist, and Herr Crippel stood for a moment behind his chair and bowed. 2017 New Yorker (Nexis) 24 Apr. 98 The pianist and zitherist Laraaji, who..released some twenty albums in the eighties. ˈzither-like adj. resembling or reminiscent of a zither. ΚΠ 1881 E. E. Frewer tr. E. Holub Seven Years S. Afr. II. vii. 170 Besides the three kinds of drums, the myrimbas, and the zither-like sylimbas, I noticed that the orchestra included some stringed instruments made of the ribs of fan-palms. 1938 G. H. Danton Chinese People vi. 182 There is an ancient Chinese instrument called the ch'in, which is long and zither-like, with seven strings. 1963 Amer. Music Teacher 12 18/2 The performer plucked the strings which produced sweet, gentle, zither-like tones. 2003 W. Buonaventura I put Spell on You 262 Then a solo qanun began to play, a zither-like instrument which set up a shimmering vibration of notes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). zitherv. Brit. /ˈzɪðə/, /ˈzɪθə/, U.S. /ˈzɪðər/, /ˈzɪθər/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: zither n. Etymology: < zither n.In later use in senses 1a and 1b apparently reinterpreted as imitative (perhaps partly after whither v., blether v., dither v.). In quot. 1930 at sense 1b with punning allusion to sense 2. In quot. 1891 at sense 2 perhaps with punning allusion to sense 1a. 1. a. intransitive. To make a sound like that of a zither; to make a sibilant humming sound; to buzz lightly. Also: to move while making such a sound. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > buzz hurr1398 hoss1530 breeze1688 zizz1883 zoom1886 zither1889 1889 [implied in: M. Ostlere Dead! iii. 76 It swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes. (at zithering adj.)]. 1935 Del Rio (Texas) Evening News 16 May 1/1 Every day cars pass this window which were born along about 1914, but they are still zithering along in the direction the driver seems to want to go. 1958 J. Townsend Young Devils iv. 35 His squeaky voice zithered through morning or afternoon. 1981 B. Carter Black Fox Running xxvii. 176 Insects zithered and chirred. 1997 Observer (Nexis) 27 July (Sports section) 11 There are fields of sunflowers and cicadas zithering under a hard blue sky. b. transitive. To cause (something) to flutter or flicker. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > cause to flutter or flicker waverc1425 wear?a1505 flutter1621 flitter1864 wink1883 flicker1903 zither1930 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 71 The sunlight, zithering their flanks with fire, Flashes between the shadows as they pass. 2005 R. Laymon Into the Fire (2006) xxii. 155 The breeze zithered Duke's hair. 2019 B. Holsinger Gifted School (e-book ed.) Two hundred acres zithered by breeze and flashes of sun. 2. intransitive. To play the zither. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing other instruments > play other instruments [verb (intransitive)] > play zither zither1891 1891 Massillon (Ohio) Daily Independent 15 May If the zithern peddler had not been put out of the shop as he was the whole shop might be zithering now. 1906 W. J. Locke Beloved Vagabond (1907) ix. 120 We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France. 2008 J. Gruen Callas kissed Me...Lenny Too! xxiii. 138 Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831v.1889
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