ψαλτήριον

English (LSJ)

τό, stringed instrument, psaltery, harp, τρίγωνα ψ. Arist.Pr.919b12, cf. Hippias(?) in PHib.1.13.31, Apollod. ap. Ath.14.636f, Thphr.HP5.7.6, LXX Ge.4.21, al., Jul.Or.2.49c.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1391] τό, das Saiteninstrument; τρίγωνον Arist. probl. 19, 23; bes. die μάγαδις, Apollodor. bei Ath. XIV, 636 f; vgl. auch IV, 138; Plut. Them. 2.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ον (τό) :
instrument à cordes, sorte de harpe.
Étymologie: ψάλλω.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

ψαλτήριον -ου, τό [ψάλλω] psalterium (snaarinstrument).

Russian (Dvoretsky)

ψαλτήριον: τό муз. псалтерий (струнный музыкальный инструмент) Arst., Plut., Sext.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ψαλτήριον: τό, ὄργανον μουσικὸν ἔγχορδον ὡς ἡ μάγαδις ἢ νάβλα, εἶδος «ἅρπης» ἢ «σαντουρίου», ψ. τρίγωνον Ἀριστ. Προβλ. 19. 23, 2, Ἀπολλόδ. παρ’ Ἀθην. 636F, Θεοφρ. περὶ Φυτ. Ἱστ. 5. 7, 6. ΙΙ. τὸ βιβλίον τῶν Ψαλμῶν, Ἀθαν. Ι. 232, Ἐπιφάν. ΙΙΙ, 244D, κλπ.

Wikipedia EN

A woman playing a triangular harp, which was called by Greeks a psalterion. Ancient Greek red-figured pelike from Anzi, Apulia, circa 320–310 BCE.

A psaltery (Greek: ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry [archaic]) is a stringed instrument of the zither family. The psaltery of Ancient Greece (ἐπιγόνιον, epigonion) was a harp-like stringed instrument. The word psaltery derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp" and that from the verb ψάλλω (psállō), "to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch" and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectrum." The psaltery was originally made from wood, and relied on natural acoustics for sound production. In the King James Bible "psaltery", and its plural, "psalteries", are used to translate several words from the Hebrew Bible whose meaning is now unknown.

Translations

az: psaltery; ca: saltiri; cs: psaltérium; da: psalter; de: Psalterium; el: ψαλτήρι; en: psaltery; eo: psaltero; es: salterio; et: psalteerium; eu: salterio; fi: psalttari; fr: psaltérion; hr: pesanterin; io: psalterio; ja: プサルタリー; ko: 솔터리; lt: psalteriumas; nl: psalterium; pt: saltério; ro: psalterium; ru: псалтерий; sv: psaltare; uk: псалтиріон; zh: 薩泰里琴