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بِيانُو
piano /bijaːˈnuː/
nounB1#1903 most common
Also: pianoforte
Example sentences
هٰذا بِيانُو.
This is a piano.
أُحِبُّ البِيانُو.
I love the piano.
تَعْزِفُ سارَة البِيانُو كُلَّ يَوْم.
Sara plays the piano every day.
اِشْتَرَيْنا بِيانُو جَديد لِلبَيْت.
We bought a new piano for the house.
تَعَلَّمَ العَزْف عَلى البِيانُو في سِنٍّ مُبَكِّرَة وَأَصْبَحَ مُوسيقِيًّا مَشْهورًا.
He learned to play the piano at an early age and became a famous musician.
لَوْلا صَبْرُهُ الطَّويل في التَّمَرُّن عَلى البِيانُو، لَما بَلَغَ هٰذا المُسْتَوى مِنَ الإِتْقان.
Were it not for his long patience in practicing the piano, he would never have reached this level of mastery.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | بِيانُو | بِيانُوهات |
| Genitive | بِيانُو | بِيانُوهات |
| Accusative | بِيانُو | بِيانُوهات |
| Vocative | يا بِيانُو | يا بِيانُوهات |
Word family
Etymology
The word is a direct loan into Arabic from European languages. It traces to Italian piano, itself a shortening of pianoforte, meaning "soft-loud," a name that described the instrument's ability to vary volume. Arabic borrowed the sound of the foreign word and wrote it in its own script.
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