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كنّار kinnār
n. knr – ‘kinnār’ (a kind of string instrument) (mus., instr.) show/hide quotes-
Albu. Intro. JS 220, 312: Et ascendit cum eo Virgultum multorum mirtorum, acbar, que sunt genera ludorum et ceng ad percutiendum que sunt instrumenta cantilene
Lemay 377, 186: ويطلع معه بستان كثير الريحان وكنَّار وهو صنج يضرب به
- 1 Albu. Intro. JS
< Arabic < Hebrew kinnōr < Aramaic kennārā. WKAS s.v. kinnāratun. The Latin translator probably read ki(b)bār or akbār. See Lemay 1995, vol. III, 437–438. The Latin term is not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.