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‖ santir, santour|sænˈtɪə(r), sænˈtʊə(r)|
Also santur.
[Arab. sanṭīr (Pers., Turkish sānṭūr), corruption of Gr. ψαλτήριον psaltery; cf. Biblical Aramaic p'santerīn.]
The dulcimer of the Arabs and Persians.
1853Layard Discov. Nineveh & Babylon xx. 454 An instrument not unlike the modern santour of the East, consisting of a number of strings stretched over a hollow case or sounding-board. 1864Engel Mus. Anc. Nat. 43 The Persians possess..a dulcimer called Santir, which in construction and in the mode of its treatment is almost identical with the German Hackbret. |