Other forms: guitars
A guitar is the instrument with six strings that rock stars hold. Play the guitar, an acoustic guitar, electric guitar.
The standard tuning is E A D G B E and the odd interval between the second and third strings is what makes chord shapes work under one hand. An electric guitar makes almost no sound acoustically — the pickups do everything. Note guitarist; and that the word came through Spanish from Greek, and is not related to the sitar.
1nounguitarA stringed instrument played with the fingers or a pick.
“He sat on the beach playing the guitar while his friends sang along.”
guitar is a musical instrument.
Spanish guitarra comes through Arabic from Greek kithara, a lyre. Zither and cithara come from the same word, and sitar does not.
Spanish
guitarra
English, today
guitar
Borrowed from Spanish guitarra. From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة, from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ. a doublet of cithara and cither and zither, but not related to sitar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA