pianist

See also: Pianist

English

Frau am Klavier, Renoir (1875)

Etymology

From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Analyzable as piano +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ənɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ənɪst/, /piˈænɪst/
• Rhymes: (US, Canada) -ænɪst
• Hyphenation: pi‧a‧nist

Noun

pianist (plural pianists)

2. (music) A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.

   By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.

   • 1987, Gordon H Bower, The psychology of learning and motivation: advances in research and theory:

     Table IV shows that the pianists were significantly better on both motor and perceptual timing than the nonpianists.

   • 2010 April 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Mischievous Convergence of Past and Present Jazz”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The pianist was Jason Moran, another Houstonian, for whom the past converges with the present: he sometimes likes to find an unobtrusive sequence inside an old standard and turn it into fresh headlines.

3. (WWII) A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War.

Synonyms

• pianofortist
• pianoist
• piano player

Related terms

• fortepianist

Translations

person who plays the piano

• Arabic: عَازِف بِيَانُو m (ʕāzif biyānō)
• Armenian: դաշնակահար (hy) (dašnakahar)
• Asturian: pianista m or f
• Belarusian: піяні́ст m (pijaníst), піяні́стка f (pijanístka)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} pianoour m, ^{(please verify)} pianoourien pl
• Bulgarian: пиани́ст (bg) m (pianíst)
• Catalan: pianista (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鋼琴家／钢琴家 (gong³ kam⁴ gaa¹), 司琴 (si¹ kam⁴) (for a service)

  Mandarin: 鋼琴家／钢琴家 (zh) (gāngqínjiā), 司琴 (sīqín) (for a service)

• Czech: klavírista (cs) m, pianista (cs) m
• Danish: pianist (da) c
• Dutch: pianist (nl) m, pianiste (nl) f, pianospeler (nl) m, pianospeelster (nl) f
• Esperanto: pianisto, pianistino (female)
• Estonian: pianist (et), klaverimängija
• Finnish: pianisti (fi), pianonsoittaja (fi)
• French: pianiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: pianista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: პიანისტი (ṗianisṭi)
• German: Pianist (de) m, Pianistin (de) f, Klavierspieler (de) m, Klavierspielerin (de) f
• Greek: πιανίστας (el) m (pianístas)
• Hebrew: פְּסַנְתְּרָן (he) m (psantrán), פסנתרנית f
• Hungarian: zongorista (hu), zongoraművész (hu)
• Icelandic: píanóleikari m, píanisti m
• Irish: pianódóir m, oirfideach pianó m
• Italian: pianista (it) m or f
• Japanese: ピアニスト (ja) (pianisuto)
• Kazakh: пианиношы (pianinoşy)
• Korean: 피아노 연주자 (piano yeonjuja)
• Latin: pianistus
• Macedonian: пијани́ст m (pijaníst), пијани́стка f (pijanístka)
• Malay: pemain piano
• Maori: kaiwhakatangi piana, kaipatu piana
• Norman: pianiste m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pianist (no) m

  Nynorsk: pianist m

• Persian: پیانیست (fa) (piyânist)
• Polish: pianista (pl) m, pianistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pianista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: pianist (ro) m, pianistă (ro) f
• Russian: пиани́ст (ru) m (pianíst), пиани́стка (ru) f (pianístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пија̀нист m, пија̀нистица f, клавѝрист m, гласовѝра̄ч m

  Roman: pijànist (sh) m, pijànistica (sh) f, klavìrist (sh) m, glasovìrāč (sh) m

• Slovak: klavirista m
• Slovene: pianist (sl) m, pianistka f
• Spanish: pianista (es) m or f
• Swedish: pianist (sv) c
• Thai: นักเปียโน (nák-bpiia-noo)
• Ukrainian: піані́ст (uk) m (pianíst), піані́стка f (pianístka)
• Volapük: pianodan (vo), hipianodan (male), jipianodan (female)

Anagrams

• pisatin

Dutch

Etymology

From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Equivalent to piano +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpi.aːˈnɪst/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pi‧a‧nist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

pianist m (plural pianisten, diminutive pianistje n, feminine pianiste)

1. pianist

Synonyms

• pianospeler

Derived terms

• barpianist
• concertpianist
• pianistisch

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pianist m (definite singular pianisten, indefinite plural pianister, definite plural pianistene)

1. pianist

References

• “pianist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pianist m (definite singular pianisten, indefinite plural pianistar, definite plural pianistane)

1. pianist

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pianiste. Equivalent to pian +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pi.aˈnist]

Noun

pianist m (plural pianiști, feminine equivalent pianistă)

1. pianist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pianist	pianistul		pianiști	pianiștii
genitive-dative	pianist	pianistului		pianiști	pianiștilor
vocative	pianistule			pianiștilor

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pijaníːst/

Noun

pianȋst m anim

1. pianist

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	pianíst
gen. sing.	pianísta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	pianíst	pianísta	pianísti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	pianísta	pianístov	pianístov
dative (dajȃlnik)	pianístu	pianístoma	pianístom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	pianísta	pianísta	pianíste
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	pianístu	pianístih	pianístih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	pianístom	pianístoma	pianísti

Further reading

• “pianist”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Swedish

Etymology

Equivalent to piano +‎ -ist.

Noun

pianist c

1. pianist

Declension

Declension of pianist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pianist	pianists
	definite	pianisten	pianistens
plural	indefinite	pianister	pianisters
	definite	pianisterna	pianisternas

References

• pianist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pianist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pianist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)