different between keene vs khene

English

Adjective

keene (comparative more keene, superlative most keene)

1. Obsolete form of keen.

Low German

Pronoun

keene

1. feminine/plural of keen

Yola

Alternative forms

• keeine, khyne

Etymology

From Middle English kie, from Old English c?.

Noun

keene

1. kine, cows

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• kaen
• khaen
• khène
• kène
• khen

Etymology

From Lao ??? (kh?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n/

Noun

khene (plural khenes)

1. (music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.
   • 1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland 2003, p. 296:

     There are processions led by dancers with castanets and accompanied by musicians playing the Kène.

   • 1997, Dolly Brittan, The Hmong, Rosen Publishing 1997, p. 32:

     The khene was once used to call warriors to fight. Now it is used for ceremonies.

   • 2000, Simon Broughton et al., The Rough Guide to World Music, Rough Guides 2000, p. 171:

     The Lao khaen, however, is the most sophisticated of all the bamboo mouth organs – it takes great skill to play it properly.

   • 2001, Mervyn Brown, War in Shangri-La, Radcliffe 2001, p. 155:

     I then suggested that he should play a tune on the khène while I improvised an accompaniment on the ukelele.

Translations

See also

• kèn (traditional shawm of Vietnam)

Anagrams

• Henke, Keehn