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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

corno delle alpi

Pronunciation / Transliteration: korno delle alpi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
alphorn/ˈæl.fɔːrn/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #25000 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il suono del corno delle alpi risuonava tra le montagne."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A long wooden wind instrument traditionally used by mountain herders in the Alps.

    "The musician played a haunting melody on the traditional alphorn."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From German 'Alp' (alp, mountain pasture) + 'Horn' (horn, wind instrument), referring to the long wooden horn traditionally used by herdsmen in the Alps.

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