harp – English noun declension

English noun forms of harp

Noun: harp
Singularharp
Pluralharps

Sample Sentences

  • The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge [1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:]
  • Contains charts and instructions for wiring. Shows sockets, wire, harps, glass chimneys and globes, shade holders, bases, finials, and hundreds of items necessary in the building of lamps. [1960, School Shop, volume 20, page 36:]
  • Both types of harp have a swiveling shade holder at the top. The threaded stud on the swivel accepts the finial. [1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting, page 104:]
  • More likely, it was the prospect of meat. Curwen was by now craving a juicy roast – 'even seal chop' – and was always loosing off at tickleasses and harps. [2006, John Gimlette, Theatre of Fish: Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador, page 225:]

Etymology

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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'harpe', Old English Nouns 'hearpe', Dutch Nouns 'harp', German Nouns 'Harfe', Danish Nouns 'harpe', Swedish Nouns 'harpa'.

Verbs referencing "harp"

German Nouns Harfe, Zulu Nouns uhabhu.