Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
Etymology tree Arabic عَادَ (ʕāda) Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd)der. Old Occitan laütbor. Old French leüt Middle French lutbor. English lute From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
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