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alha
إرخاء irḫāʾ
n. rḫw / rḫy – ‘irḫāʾ’ (quarter-tone alteration) (mus.) show/hide quotes-
Avic. Met. 146, 48: in intervallis musicae ponunt alha quod interpretatur quarta toni
Marm. 100, 14: وفى أبعاد الموسيقى [sc. فنفرض] إرخاء النغمة التى هى ربع طنينى
- 1 Avic. Met.
Farmer 1973, 153. This sense of the Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr.
< Arabic. The Latin term is not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.