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Image:Fisarmonica_nera_a_piano.png|thumb|right|A piano accordion

Hyphenation

Pronunciation
IPA|/��k�(ɹ).di.��n/
audio|en-us-accordion.ogg|Audio (US)`

Etymology
From mid nineteenth-century German Akkordion based on Italian accordare (to tune). <small>SEE</small> accord.

Noun
en-noun

1. A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.

#* A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked. �w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
#* an musical instrument|instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. � w:Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce, Devil�s Dictionary

Synonyms
squeezebox

Derived terms
accordionist

Translations
trans-top|A small, portable, keyed wind instrument
Afrikaans: akkordeon; trekklavier
Albanian: fizarmonikë f
Basque: akordeoi; eskusoinu
Bosnian: harmonika#Bosnian|harmonika f
Breton: akordeon m
Bulgarian: �а�моника (kharmónika) f
Catalan: acordió m
Chinese:

Croatian: harmonika#Croatian|harmonika f
Czech: akordeon, harmonika
Danish: trækharmonika
Dutch: accordeon n, harmonica m
Esperanto: akordiono
Estonian: akordion; lõõtspill
Finnish: harmonikka
French: accordéon m
German: Akkordeon n
Greek: ακκο�δε�ν (akkordeón) n
Hindi: ���र�डियन
Hungarian: t|hu|harmonika
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Indonesian: akordeon
Interlingua: accordion
Irish: cairdín m
Italian: fisarmonica f
Japanese: ������ (ak�deon), �風� (�����, tefūkin)
Korean: ���� (akodieon)
Latin: accordio f (accordionis, genitive)
Norwegian: trekkspill
Polish: akordeon m, harmonia r�czna f
Portuguese: acordeão
Russian: га�моника (garmónika) f, га�мон� (garmón�) f
Scottish Gaelic: bogsa-ciùil m
Serbian:

Slovak: harmonika f
Slovene: harmonika f
Spanish: acordeón m
Swedish: dragspel n
Turkish: akordiyon
Ukrainian: ако�деон (akordeon) m, га�мон�� (harmónija) f
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See also
bandoneon
concertina

Adjective
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1. pleat|Pleated.

#: An accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette. �James Joyce, Ulysses

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