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Lute vs Tambura - What's the difference?

lute | tambura |

As nouns the difference between lute and tambura

is that lute is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox while tambura is a type of stringed instrument found throughout the world, similar to a lute.

As a verb lute

is to play on a lute, or as if on a 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

    * ----

    tambura

    English

    Alternative forms

    *tamboura

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of stringed instrument found throughout the world, similar to a lute.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 25, author=Allan Kozinn, title=Neil Aspinall, Beatles’ Aide, Dies at 66, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He was among the singers in the celebratory chorus of “Yellow Submarine,” and he played tambura (an Indian drone instrument) on “Within You Without You,” harmonica on “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” and percussion on “Magical Mystery Tour.” }}

    See also

    *(wikipedia "tambura") ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • , tambourine

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , tambura, tambure , tambure, tambura , tamburi, tamburama , tamburu, tambure , tamburo, tambure , tamburi, tamburama , tamburom, tamburama }}

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