baglama

See also: bağlama

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

baglama (plural baglamas)

  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.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:
      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.

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See also
  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

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