Mar 11 15:54
2 mos ago
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English term

Fiddle

English to Chinese Art/Literary Music
I need to know the exact word for Fiddle, not Violin
No context, sorry

Thanks in advance

Proposed translations

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民俗小提琴

It was transliterated as 菲德勒 or left in English in some websites.

It is called 民俗小提琴 in here: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/100576773

The author says there is no established translation in Chinese for Fiddle, so he coined one: 民俗小提琴
Peer comment(s):

agree Xinyi ZHONG
2 days 6 hrs
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民俗提琴、提琴

I am not sure whether you are translating into Simplified or Traditional Chinese. However, there may be two more possible translations for this term.

References:
https://www.m5music.hk/dictionary/fiddle/
https://ed.arte.gov.tw/uploadfile/periodical/3276_p63-67.pdf
Example sentence:

現在即使有一 些人開始時接受了古典音樂的小提琴訓練,後來改奏民間音樂,他們也自稱或被稱「提琴師」(fiddler), 而非「小提琴家」(violinist)。再者,「fiddle」一詞也可廣義地作為所有

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古提琴

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/32478150
这个上面说FIDDLE= 古提琴
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66 days

小提琴

Western classical players sometimes use “fiddle” as an affectionate term for the violin, that intimate companion and workmate. But in the United States, most often “fiddle” means the violin as used in Irish-Scottish-French traditional music.


She played the fiddle in an Irish band,
But she fell in love with an English man
The song “Galway Girl” from Ed Sheeran
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