Meanings
plural flugelhorns · alternative fluegelhorn · alternative flügelhorn
- A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
A flugelhorn may be furnished in lieu of the Eb trumpet, a euphonium in lieu of one alto, one Eb alto saxophone, and one Eb baritone saxophone in lieu of two coronets...
1900, Daniel E. McCarthy, Manual of Instructions for Quartermasters Serving in the Field
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- GermanFlügelhorn
- Englishflugelhorn
Borrowed from German Flügelhorn, from Flügel (“wing, flank”) + horn.
More words from German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan fiscorn
- fiscornbrass instrument
Chinese Mandarin 富魯格號 /富鲁格号
- 富魯格號 /富鲁格号 (fùlǔgéháo)brass instrument
Czech křídlovka
- křídlovkabrass instrument
Dutch bugel
- bugelbrass instrument
Finnish flyygelitorvi, flygari
- flyygelitorvibrass instrument
- flygaribrass instrument
French bugle
- buglebrass instrument
German Flügelhorn
- Flügelhornbrass instrument
Hungarian szárnykürt
- szárnykürtbrass instrument
Icelandic flygilhorn
- flygilhornbrass instrument
Italian flicorno, bombardino
- flicornobrass instrument
- bombardinobrass instrument
Japanese フリューゲルホルン
- フリューゲルホルン (furyūgeruhorun)brass instrument
Norwegian Bokmål flygelhorn
- flygelhornbrass instrument
Portuguese flugelhorn, fliscorne
- flugelhornbrass instrument
- fliscornebrass instrument
Russian флюгельго́рн
- флюгельго́рн (fljugelʹgórn)brass instrument
Spanish fiscorno
- fiscornobrass instrument
Cite this entry
flugelhorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flugelhorn
“flugelhorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flugelhorn. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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