lute

As a noun 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.

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.

As an adjective lutelike is

(music) resembling a lute in form or sound.

As nouns the difference between lute and kobza

is that lute is a fretted stringed instrument, similar to a guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox while kobza is a plucked stringed instrument of the lute family.

As a verb lute

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