fingerboard

English

A fingerboard: ⑤.

Etymology

finger +‎ board

Noun

fingerboard (plural fingerboards)

1. (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
2. A miniature skateboard that is driven with the fingers.

Translations

part of musical instrument

• Bulgarian: гриф m (grif)
• Czech: hmatník (cs) m
• Danish: gribebræt n
• Dutch: toets (nl) m
• Finnish: otelauta (fi)
• French: touche (fr) f
• German: Griffbrett (de) n
• Greek: ταστιέρα (el) f (tastiéra)
• Hebrew: שְׁחִיף (he)
• Icelandic: fingraborð n, fingrabretti n
• Irish: méarchlár (ga) m
• Italian: tastiera (it) f
• Japanese: 指板 (しばん, shiban)
• Maori: paparipa
• Polish: podstrunnica (pl) f, podstrunnik (pl) f
• Portuguese: espelho (pt) m
• Russian: гриф (ru) m (grif), клавиату́ра (ru) f (klaviatúra)
• Spanish: traste (es) m
• Swedish: greppbräda (sv) c

miniature skateboard

• Finnish: sormiskeittilauta, sormiskeitti
• Icelandic: fingrabretti n

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

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