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Lute vs Akonting - What's the difference?

lute | akonting |

As nouns the difference between lute and akonting

is that lute is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox or lute can be thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight while akonting is (musical instrument) the folk lute of the jola people of west africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.

As a verb lute

is to play on a lute, or as if on a lute or lute can be to fix or fasten something with lute.

lute

English

(wikipedia lute)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lut (modern (luth)), from (etyl) (probably representing an (etyl) or North African pronunciation).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox.
    • Related terms
    * archlute * lutanist, lutenist * lutherie * luthier * lutist

    See also

    * barbiton, barbitos * guembri * guqin * mandola * mandolin * oud * pipa * rebab * samisen, shamisen * theorbo

    Verb

    (lut)
  • To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
  • * Tennyson
    • Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
    (Piers Plowman)
    (Keats)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lut, ultimately from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
  • A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
  • (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mould.

    • Verb

    (lut)
  • To fix or fasten something with lute.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘A Friend's Friend’, Plain Tales from the Hills , Folio Society 2005, page 179:
    • To protect everything till it dried, a man luted a big blue paper cap from a cracker, with meringue-cream, low down on Jevon's forehead.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    akonting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia akonting)
  • (musical instrument) The folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 2, author=The New York Times, title=New CDs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia. }}