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ukulele

Syllables: u·ku·le·le/ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ//juː.kəˈleɪ.li/

ukulele noun: a small four-stringed guitar.

ukulele: a small four-stringed guitar
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Noun

ukulele (plural ukuleles)

  1. A small four-stringed guitar.

ukulele meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada

ukulele in Tamil

உகுலெலே, யூகுலேல், யுகுலேல்

ukulele in Marathi

small four-stringed guitar
उकुलेले ukulele

ukulele in Malayalam

ഉകുലെലെ

ukulele in Kannada

ಉಕುಲೆ, ಉಕುಲೆಲೆ
More languagesFewer languages
ukulele in Odia
ଯ଼ୁକୁଲେଲେ
ukulele in Nepali
युकुलेले, युकुले, उकुलेले
ukulele in Tagalog
yukulele
ukulele in Arabic
أُكْلَال ʔuklāl
ukulele in Malay
ukulele
ukulele in Indonesian
ukulele
ukulele in Persian
یوکللی yukoleli
ukulele in Thai
อูกูเลเล uu-guu-lee-lêe
ukulele in Myanmar
ယူးခလေလီ၊

Forms of ukulele

pluralukuleles
alternative formʻukulele
alternative form (obsolete)eukaleli
alternative form (obsolete)ukelele
alternative form (rare)ukalele

Plural of ukulele: ukuleles

Origin of ukulele

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).

Words formed from ukulele

Words that rhyme with ukulele

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Questions about ukulele

What does ukulele mean?
Ukulele means a small four-stringed guitar.
What is ukulele in Tamil?
Ukulele in Tamil is உகுலெலே, யூகுலேல், யுகுலேல். See Ukulele meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ukulele?
Ukulele is a noun.
How do you pronounce ukulele?
Ukulele is pronounced /juː.kəˈleɪ.li/ (UK).
What is the plural of ukulele?
The plural of ukulele is ukuleles.

Words near ukulele in the dictionary

  1. UKSF
  2. UkSSR
  3. UKTI
  4. UKTT
  5. UKTTs
  6. ukulele
  7. ukuleleist
  8. ukuleleists
  9. ukulelelike
  10. ukuleles
  11. ukulelist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ukulele (page history and authors); ukulele (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ukulele (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ukulele (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ukulele (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ukulele (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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