Words that come from Ancient Greek “κιθάρα”

112 words across 47 languages descend from Ancient Greek κιθάρα — including guitar, cither, guitarist, zither, cithara, guitarlike, citole, guitarfish.

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English (18)

German (11)

Finnish (10)

Hungarian (6)

Spanish (5)

Italian (3)

Dutch (3)

French (3)

Irish (3)

Latin (2)

Arabic (2)

Japanese (2)

Greek (2)

Swedish (2)

Tagalog (2)

Chinese (2)

Cebuano (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Romanian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Sicilian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Aramaic (1)

Armenian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Korean (1)

Middle French (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Yup'ik (1)

Burmese (1)

Danish (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Bengali (1)

Manx (1)

Turkish (1)

Thai (1)

Old Armenian (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Old High German (1)

Late Latin (1)

Old Dutch (1)