lute
English
/l(j)uːt/, /luːt/
noun
Definitions
- A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, 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
Borrowed from Middle French lut derived from Old French leut, leüt (lute) derived from Old Occitan laüt derived from Arabic عود, اَلْعُود (wood, lute).
Origin
Arabic
عود, اَلْعُود
Gloss
wood, lute
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- belute English
- enlute English
- lutelike English
- luter English
- lutist English
- lutite English
- unlute English
- lattialuuttu Finnish
- luuttu Finnish
- luututa Finnish
- pitkäkaulaluuttu Finnish
- liuto Italian
- luth French
- лютня Russian
- lutt Norwegian Bokmål
- luta Swedish
- リュート Japanese
- lutnia Polish
- lutt Norwegian Nynorsk
- liúit Irish
- liúiteadóir Irish
- عود, اَلْعُود Arabic
- leut, leüt Old French
- leüt Old French
- leut Middle French
- lut Middle French
- 琉特琴 Chinese
- 魯特琴 Chinese
- laüt Old Occitan
- laüt, laut Old Occitan
- alod Old Spanish
- lutanista ML