strum

See also: Strum and strům

English

Etymology

Variant of thrum.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /strʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb

strum (third-person singular simple present strums, present participle strumming, simple past and past participle strummed)

Examples
The sound of a ukelele being strummed(file)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

strum (plural strums)

  1. The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
    hear the strum of a guitar
  2. The act of strumming.
    give the banjo a little strum

Derived terms

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Slav.[1]

Noun

strum m (definite strumi)

  1. pool

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “strum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 404

Further reading
  • “strum”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • “strum”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
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