Baglama

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.

    "At the end of the room, as if behind an iconastasis of song, oud, baglamas, and a kind of hammered dulcimer called a santouri were being played without a break."

Synonyms

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sazsaz

Example

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"He played a Turkish folk tune on his baglama at a Kurdish wedding in Germany."

Etymology

From Turkish bağlama, from bağlamak (“to tie”).

Related phrases

elektro-baglama

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