alha

إرخاءirḫāʾ

n. rḫw / rḫyirḫāʾ’ (quarter-tone alteration) (mus.)
  1. 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. 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.

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