kissarn.

/ˈkɪsə/

Etymology: < colloquial Arabic kīsār.

(See quot. 1964.) Also attributive.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > harp or lyre > [noun] > lyre > other lyres

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tortoise-lyrea1822

kissar1864

nyatiti1964

1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations ii. 41 A kissar from Abyssinia..is so far different from the common Nubian kissar, that its body is square, without sounding~holes.

1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations iv. 158 The songs with the kissar accompaniment..are called by the Nubians ghouna.

1941 J. Pulver tr. Panum Stringed Instruments Middle Ages 12 Engel..points to the striking likeness existing between the type of lyre depicted here and the lyre which, under the name of Kissar, is still used by several North African peoples.

1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 291/1 Kissar (Gk. kithara), bowl lyre of E. Africa, a survival of the ancient Gk. lyra, still found in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. The body is shallow, of wood, covered with a sheepskin membrane laced to the back of the body.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	kissar
释义	kissarn. /ˈkɪsə/ Etymology: < colloquial Arabic kīsār. (See quot. 1964.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > harp or lyre > [noun] > lyre > other lyres testudo1702 trigon1728 trigonon1728 trigonum1738 phorminx1776 veena1789 tortoise-lyrea1822 kissar1864 nyatiti1964 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations ii. 41 A kissar from Abyssinia..is so far different from the common Nubian kissar, that its body is square, without sounding~holes. 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations iv. 158 The songs with the kissar accompaniment..are called by the Nubians ghouna. 1941 J. Pulver tr. Panum Stringed Instruments Middle Ages 12 Engel..points to the striking likeness existing between the type of lyre depicted here and the lyre which, under the name of Kissar, is still used by several North African peoples. 1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 291/1 Kissar (Gk. kithara), bowl lyre of E. Africa, a survival of the ancient Gk. lyra, still found in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. The body is shallow, of wood, covered with a sheepskin membrane laced to the back of the body. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1864
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